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.

In August 2018, the National Library purchased a rare item at auction: an anti-Semitic pamphlet published circa 1714, that mocked two Jewish thieves who were publicly executed for their crimes.

Hugo Preuss is still considered to be the “father” of the constitution of the Weimar Republic today.

A poem denouncing anti-Semitism, correspondence with Zionist leaders, and a ledger documenting important events at the Nordau household are just a few of the items in the collection.