A look at the miraculous tales and sacred biographies of Muhammad, in honor of “Mawlid”
Yitzhak Rabin’s First Peace Negotiation (and Necktie)
The twentysomething officer had never been abroad nor worn a suit
The Kaiser’s Favorite “Carmen”? A Jewish Star from Budapest
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
How a Map Torn From a Newspaper Helped Decide a Critical Battle of the Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was utter chaos. Armored corps soldiers who joined the battle in the Valley of Tears on the Golan Heights were not familiar with the terrain and couldn’t find a proper map to guide them, so they improvised…
A Bahrain Mystery in the National Library Collection
A mysterious 80 year old document which recently surfaced in our collections emphasizes the geopolitical significance of Bahrain. But what is it doing here?
“It Could Never Happen Here”: Before the Bolsheviks Came
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
The Origin of the Jewish Hat
How did the pointed hat of European aristocracy become an anti-Jewish Symbol? And was it the forerunner of the modern skullcap?
180 Years of Australian Jewish Newspaper History Going Online
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
The Missing Tomes: Gershom Scholem’s Wandering Talmud
The story of how Gershom Scholem’s Talmud set finally found its way to the National Library of Israel
