A 17th-century Italian manuscript sheds light on an important example of Catholic book censorship in the modern age
A Jewish judge and an SS officer walk into a salon in the Land of Israel…It may sound like the start of a joke but the following is a true story.
“I will pay you with my blood for homeland and science.”
Rare documents from the National Library of Israel show the excitement and dedication that went into the preparations for the visit of Wilhelm V and his bride, Princess Wilhelmina.
How a group of anti-Dreyfusards channeled their anger into the creation of one of the world’s most popular sporting events, centered on a new invention: the bicycle.
A timeless love story cut short by the horrors of the Holocaust.
The first Hebrew translation of the famous work El Conciliador also served as the translator’s own personal diary
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.
