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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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Lasker-Schüler, one of Germany’s greatest poets, fled to Jerusalem in the 1930s. “Poetic Textures: Else Lasker-Schüler Archives. An Online Platform” offers digital access to a large portion of her literary and artistic legacy.
Diaspora
A young girl, her soccer star brother, tragedy and the unknown
The story of Israel’s first fire department
The little-known story of two immigrant professionals who acted quickly after the Nazi airship disaster
Some 35,000 volumes from dozens of communities and institutions across the country will be included
A collection of photographs received by the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People documents the lives of thousands of residents of the town of Bitola, who were sent to Treblinka in 1943
In the National Library of Israel’s Edelstein Collection, we discovered evidence of one of the world’s first modern washing machines, dating back to the 18th century
How Gary Wexler’s ads dealing with the Jewish world took risks and used controversial content to reach non-involved Jews
“I can’t see you, but I feel you, and I know that you are happy, because you are in your homeland, which is being rebuilt.”
“Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping”
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