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Chen Malul
Have you come to the library looking for Chen Malul? See that teetering mountain of books that's about to collapse? Chen is right behind it. Hobbies: Reading about history, writing about history, talking about history.
Land of Israel
The then-revolutionary photochrom method gave the world its first color pictures — based on the imagination of the employee working the printing plates.
Diaspora
How Henry Morgenthau went from mild-mannered cabinet secretary to being one of the greatest advocates for Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust?
A discovery by an archivist at the National Library sheds new light on Kafka’s connection with the Zionist movement.
Judaism
From a rare Jewish-Italian manuscript: An outraged letter from the Jews of Ferrara to the Inquisition authorities requesting they stop censoring their printed books.
Human bones and broken tombstones were used as building materials, desecrating 500 years of Jewish history and half a million gravestones.
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