Now his daughter is searching for his Nazi-looted and lost artwork

This prayer book was published by Schocken in 1937, a year before Kristallnacht. Decades later, a reader at the National Library was surprised to find in it a clearly visible Nazi seal featuring a swastika…

These rare photos offer a glimpse of a monumental Ottoman project, designed to transport “hajj” pilgrims and unite a vast Islamic realm

Why my grandfather left Europe

We decided to check, once and for all, whether gloves are necessary when handling rare manuscripts

Howard Kaplan looks back on his special relationship with his mentor – legendary Hollywood screenwriter and author, Michael Blankfort

These video testimonies from the Toldot Yisrael Collection offer a behind the scenes look at the story of the famous ship

The little-known story of two immigrant professionals who acted quickly after the Nazi airship disaster

Some 35,000 volumes from dozens of communities and institutions across the country will be included

A collection of photographs received by the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People documents the lives of thousands of residents of the town of Bitola, who were sent to Treblinka in 1943