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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
We decided to check, once and for all, whether gloves are necessary when handling rare manuscripts
Land of Israel
The story of Israel’s first fire department
The riots of the “Farhud” in Iraq convinced Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi that time was running out for Jews living in Arab countries in the 1940s
How did the only original written copy of “HaTikvah” arrive at the National Library of Israel? And how does it differ from the version we know today?
When did the libel of Jews using Christian blood on Passover make its first appearance?
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