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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.
Diaspora
When Rachel Félix met her childhood idol, the famous writer Alexandre Dumas, she could not contain her excitement. It didn’t last.
Land of Israel
Years before Eichmann was brought to Israel to stand trial, the notorious mass-murderer visited Mandatory Palestine in 1937 while disguised as a journalist.
Discovered in the National Library archives, Himmler’s message to the Mufti decried the “Jewish invaders”, while sending “warm wishes for your continued struggle…”
Judaism
Do you thank the Almighty for making you a man or a woman? Two fifteenth-century manuscripts show the choice is yours!
Judaism, Land of Israel
The difficulty of daily life in the Jewish Yishuv, coping with the Holocaust and the breakout of the War of Independence revealed.
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