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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
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
Land of Israel
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?
On the morning of October 5th, 1939, 43 members of a Haganah officer’s training course found themselves in handcuffs and being led by the British army to Acre prison; This is the album that tells their story
Judaism
The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues…
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