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Stefan Litt
Dr Stefan Litt, received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 2001, archival expert. Since 2010 he works at the archives department and is responsible for European language holdings.
Diaspora
Beautiful, inexpensive and easy to use – postcards were once among the most popular forms of correspondence. In honor of their 150th anniversary, we take a look back at some early examples
At an assembly of the Nazi Party in September 1935, the Reichstag passed laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship
Franz Kafka likely never imagined the incredible value or near “sacred” aura which are today attributed to each of his handwritten works
Printed in Rome, this book was once part of an Italian prince’s library. Years later it made its way to Argentina, and eventually to Israel. The tome is now over 550 years old…
When culture critic Carl Ehrenstein reviewed the 1927 film, “The Great Unknown,” he could not have known the fate that would befall the actors at the hands of the Nazis.
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