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Land of Israel
Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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Diaspora
After hundreds of years underground, Jewish life on the Spanish island is reawakening
A glimpse of Hannah Senesh’s childhood writings
“Dear mother, I don’t know what to tell you. I will only say this: A thousand thanks and more, and forgive me, if you can…”
In the 1950s, Katherine Senesh donated four pages containing poems handwritten by her paratrooper daughter to the National Library. Now, with the deposit of the full Hannah Senesh Collection, these pages will be reunited with the notebook from which they originally came
From medical school to the battlefield, he wound up in Siberia and China before America
Middle East
With Israelis ready to flock to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Katie Wachsberger spoke to the National Library about the cutting edge of culture in the UAE
In Genie Milgrom’s family, hidden Jewish identity was preserved for generations in the food they ate
Is there a connection between the pointed hat worn by mythical dwarfs and gnomes and the hats once worn by the Jews of Europe?
Judaism
In his own words, what does a new library for the Jewish world in Jerusalem mean?
A seventeenth century travelogue by a famous Sufi mystic describes a strange and surprising image of Ottoman Palestine
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