Lecture by Yigal Zalmona and discussion with Micha Ullman.

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On May 10, 1933, tens of thousands of books were thrown into a bonfire in Berlin's Opera Square. The pages went up in flames, but the spirit of these works survived. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, and sexologist authors among others.

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The National Library of Israel, a home and repository of the written word, invites you to a special event marking the 90th anniversary of the book burnings. Yigal Zalmona in discussion with Micha Ullman on two of his sculptures - The Empty Library in Berlin, and his new work, Letters of Light, which is being prepared on the grounds of the new National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem.

Lecture by Yigal Zalmona and a discussion with Micha Ullman.

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On May 10, 1933, tens of thousands of books were thrown into a bonfire in Berlin's Opera Square. The pages went up in flames, but the spirit of these works survived. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, and sexologist authors among others.

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The National Library of Israel, a home and repository of the written word, invites you to a special event marking the 90th anniversary of the book burnings. Yigal Zalmona in discussion with Micha Ullman on two of his sculptures - The Empty Library in Berlin, and his new work, Letters of Light, which is being prepared on the grounds of the new National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem.