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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
The exhibition “Life in Medieval Khorasan. A Geniza from the National Library of Israel” is on display at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
Spoiler alert: The father of psychoanalysis was not the biggest fan of establishing a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine.
Samuel Solnik, who claimed descent from King David, sought to convince the US and Britain to restore the ancient Kingdom of Israel and place his son on the throne
Diaspora, Judaism
An almanac published in Jamaica in 1798 containing a special page dedicated to Jewish holidays is preserved in the National Library collections – a glimpse of a forgotten Jewish island community
“I am neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but I have, nevertheless, discovered a fantastic philosophical method that I will soon be publishing under the title ‘The Logic of the World.’”
In honor of the “Back to School” season, we bring you several stories about children from across Europe on their first day of school.
A gift from the John Pritzker Family Fund will support the digitization and expansion of a world-leading century-old collection of photographs
Letters discovered by chance in the National Library archives document Yitzhak Halevi Herzog’s historic mission to redeem Jewish children taken in by Christian institutions and families
Identify and tag your friends, family members, and yourselves in these rare photos of school children from the National Library collections, taken between the 1950s and the 1990s
How Israel’s declaration of independence shaped the fate of 69 Jews on an American passenger ship
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