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In honor of Eid al-Adha: “Marking Holy Time” – An Introduction to the Islamic Calendar

Prof. Miri Shefer Mossensohn

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On Fathers and Sons – The story of the estrangement and the relationship between the greatest among Yiddish authors, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and his only son, Israel Zamir, as it emerges from the Zamir Archive at the NLI. In honor of the 30 year anniversary of Bashevis Singer’s passing

Dr. Merav Chen

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NLI USA Signature Speakers Series

NLI USA Travels Through History and Throughout the World

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Inscription and Imagination: The 2,000 Year-old Story of a Woman Who Survived the Destruction of Jerusalem

Prof. Paula Fredriksen, Lori Banov Kaufmann, Prof. Jonathan Price

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The Tzabar Who Missed Eretz Israel – A Short Story and an Exploration of the Political Poetics of S. Yizhar

Dr. Amit Asis

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Jewish Fiction Written in 16 Languages

Dr. Nora Gold

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Reading and Rereading – The Alphabet Book of Tom Seidmann-Freud

Hadassa Goldvicht

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Medieval Jewish Daily Life Meets Israeli Art

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten

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Reading Mein Kampf: Entering the Walled Garden

Prof. Oded Heilbronner

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Time capsule

Works from the depths of darkness come to light: A series of meetings

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“Es Ist Nacht” - The songs Paul Ben-Haim did not want us to hear

Dr. Gila Flam

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Deracination and Racialization in Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales

Dr. Sam Shonkoff

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More than a thousand words

Writer-illustrators moving between worlds. A series of meetings

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Yirmi Pinkus, illustrator and author of "In Miniature" (also published as "Petty Business"), and "Bachelors and Widows," talks with Yuval Avivi, presenter of the program "What It Takes" at "Kan Tarbut"

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Time capsule

Works from the depths of darkness come to light: A series of meetings

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All beginnings are hidden: Amalia Kahana-Carmon.

Dr. Noga Rosenfarb

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A girl's tale - Miriam Yellen-Shtaklis is not just for kids

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Visiting Scholars

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Dialann Deoraí (Diary of an Exile): Jewish Migration and Settlement in Ireland through the Lens of Personal Experience

Dr. Natalie Wynn

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Time capsule

Works from the depths of darkness come to light: A series of meetings

HEB

Burning Fields and Blossoming Letters: A Partial Reconstruction of the Volume of Ba'al Shem Tov in Agnon's Manuscript, which caught fire in his home in Germany (1924)

Yehuda Etzion

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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The bicycle boy returns to Baghdad - On the 80th anniversary of Farhud

Eli Amir in conversation with Yuval Avivi

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Creative Imagination as a Music Reconstruction Method

Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch

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On Guilt, Shame and Generational Continuity: Joseph Weiss, Amos Weiss and Gershom Shalom

Prof. Noam Zaduf

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From home to infinity: An evening for galactic creatures, stars, and space lovers

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More than a thousand words

Writer-illustrators moving between worlds. A series of meetings

HEB

Einat Tzarfati, who wrote and illustrated "Palace in the Sand," "Trouble in Bundles," and "Neighbors" talks with Tzila Hayun, head of the Education and Culture Division at the National Library

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Visiting Scholars

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An Algerian Sefer Torah from 1840

Prof. Dr. Paul Mirecki

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German and Yiddish Conversations in the Archive: Itsik Manger and Paul Celan

Matthew Johnson

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More than a thousand words

Writer-illustrators moving between worlds. A series of meetings

HEB

Rutu Modan, illustrator and comic book author, talks with Yuval Avivi, presenter of the program "What It Takes" at "Kan Tarbut"

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Leaving Home: “Bustan” Program Fellows at the National Library read from their works

Gail Hareven

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Time capsule

Works from the depths of darkness come to light: A series of meetings

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"For a very long time": in honor of Leah Goldberg's hidden poems

Dr. Gideon Tikotsky

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Visiting Scholars

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ENG

Minhag Italia

Dr. Alessandro Grazi

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NLI Treasures

Outstanding Archives

ENG

The Gary Wexler Archive: Stowed Away Portfolios of Award-Winning Advertising Campaigns for Jewish Life

Gary Wexler

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More than a thousand words

Writer-illustrators moving between worlds. A series of meetings

HEB

David Polonsky, illustrator of the adaptation of Anne Frank's diary as a graphic diary, speaks with Tzila Hayun, head of the Education and Culture Division at the National Library

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Time capsule

Works from the depths of darkness come to light: A series of meetings

HEB

What is a moving archive? Repressed works and lost manuscripts in the Haim Hazaz Archive

Dr. Gil Weissblei

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L[ev]a[n]tin[e]

The DNA of the Hebrew Letter

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A Trilingual Letter for a Trilingual Reality

Michal Sahar

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NLI Treasures

Outstanding Archives

ENG

The Archive of the "Tourist who Forgot to Leave:” Isaiah Tishby on Zionism, Kabbalah, and Poetry

Dr. Andrea Gondos

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

ENG

Making it New: Medieval Muslim and Jewish Literature between Translation and Poetry

Dr. Samuel Thrope in conversation with Professor Eric Ormsby & Peter Cole

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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"Have We Got News For You!"—an event celebrating the addition of the Hadashot newspaper to the Historical Jewish Press website (National Library)

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Tales from the Box

The Central Archives

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A Working Nation: Jewish Artisans in Eastern Europe

Dr. Alex Valdman in conversation with Benjamin Lukin

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L[ev]a[n]tin[e]

The DNA of the Hebrew Letter

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Roots and Stones: The Impact of the Archeological Discoveries of the Fifties and Sixties on the Revived Hebrew Letter

Yaronimus

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Database Series

Training Sessions on the Use of Online Tools in Jewish Studies

HEB

Adding to the Torah? Digital Tools for Jewish Texts from the Powered by Sefaria Contest 2020

Dr. Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

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NLI Treasures

Outstanding Archives

ENG

Aliza Auerbach – 4 Trilogies

Guy Raz

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NLI USA Signature Speakers Series

NLI USA Travels Through History and Throughout the World

ENG

Saving Books: Embracing Yiddish and Cultural Identity

Aaron Lansky

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Literatur im Archiv

Nachlässe an der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek Jerusalem

GER

Nachlassbewusstsein und Bestandsbildung: Moshe Yaakov Ben-Gavriel (Eugen Hoeflich)

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L[ev]a[n]tin[e]

The DNA of the Hebrew Letter

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The Plight of the Hebrew Letter: Latinization as a Design Solution

Liron Lavi Turkenich

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Database Series

Training Sessions on the Use of Online Tools in Jewish Studies

HEB

How to Get to the Point: Making Intelligent Use of Dicta Tools to Edit and Process Texts (Nakdan, Tanakh, Talmud, Rabbinic Abbreviations)

Dr. Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

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Tales from the Box

The Central Archives

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Skirts Against the KGB: The Story of the Women of "The 35's"—Fifty Years On

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

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Can a Language Have a Personality? On Anthropomorphizing Yiddish

Jeffrey Shandler

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In Honor of Ramadan

ENG

Marking Sacred Time: An Introduction to the Muslim Calendar

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In Honor of Ramadan

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The Art of Arabic Calligraphy: Between Past and Present

Dr. Housni Shehada Alkhateeb & Dr. Raquel Ukeles

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Sacred

A comparative look at the Qur'an and Torah in honor of Ramadan

ENG

Between Ramadan and the Counting of the Omer: A Muslim-Jewish Conversation on Living in Sacred Time

Fourth meeting

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Database Series

Training Sessions on the Use of Online Tools in Jewish Studies

HEB

New Avenues in Bible and Oral Torah Studies: How to Use the Alhatorah.org Database

Dr. Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

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NLI Treasures

Outstanding Archives

ENG

The Archive of the German-Jewish Historian and Cairo Geniza Scholar Shelomo Dov Goitein

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SSSHHH!

Listening to the Noise of National Libraries Around the World

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The National Library of Israel in Conversation With the National Library of Poland

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Sacred

A comparative look at the Qur'an and Torah in honor of Ramadan

HEB

What's the Pitch? Tajweed—The Art of Proper Qu'ran Recitation Meets Hebrew Cantillation. A Connection Between Different, Yet Similar Worlds

Session Three:

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Unwritten Culture

A Series of Meetings About the Arts Collections of the National Library

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The Dance, the Dancer, and the Writer in Between: Noa Eshkol's Textual Archive

Session Twelve. Cluster: Dance

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Ramadan Nights From Jerusalem

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Full Black Half-Moon: Women in Religious Society, Following the Screening of "The Poetess" Documentary Film

Prof. Nidaa Khoury, Poetess

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Why Did Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Enter the Cave, and What Did He Know When He Came Out?

Dr. Yaron Zilberstein

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Two Cities—The Golden Age of Illuminated Ketubahs in Venice and Rome, on the Occasion of Concluding the Sefirat haOmer

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Sacred

A comparative look at the Qur'an and Torah in honor of Ramadan

HEB

Circumcision in the Torah and the Qur’an: The Test of Abraham and the Chosen Son

Second Meeting

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Visiting Scholars

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Jewish Environmentalism: Religious Responses to the Ecological Crisis

Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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NLI USA Signature Speakers Series

NLI USA Travels Through History and Throughout the World

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An Insider View of Peace with Bahrain, Morocco, and the UAE

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Behind the Scenes @ NLI

Stories from behind the scenes at the National Library of Israel

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Don’t Say Shhhhh in the Library! The National Library as a Center for Culture and Education

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Unwritten Culture

A Series of Meetings About the Arts Collections of the National Library

HEB

Wings of Prayer: The Synagogue Architecture of Yeshayahu Ilan

Tenth meeting: Architecture Cluster

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Sacred

A comparative look at the Qur'an and Torah in honor of Ramadan

HEB

The Written and the Oral: Transcription and Recitation of the Holy Scriptures

First meeting

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Rewriting the Bible in the 19th century

Simon Goldhill

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Why We Remember Herzl—An Up-close Encounter with Source Items from the Library’s Collections

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Visiting Scholars

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Yizkor: A Century of Remembrance Culture in Israel

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A Grammar That Is Not a Grammar About a Language That Is Not a Language: Spinoza on the Hebrew Bible

Irene Zwiep

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Isaac Cardoso, Physician and Philosopher (1604-1683)—From the Court of the King of Spain in Madrid to the Venice Ghetto

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The Sanctity of the Land of Israel and Independence Day in Hasidic literature

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“At the Gate of the Ghetto in the Burning Fire”: Different Words to Familiar Tunes, in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Visiting Scholars

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One Trauma, Two Perspectives, Three Years: Aspects of the Shoah and the Revival of Eretz-Israeli and Jewish-American propaganda, 1945-1948

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In Honor of Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel

ENG

How Jesus became a Nazi: Christian Theologians in the Third Reich

Susannah Heschel

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

ENG

Prenumeranten: What we can Learn from Subscriptions Lists in Hebrew Books

Rabbi Elli Fischer

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Visiting Scholars

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Birth of the Doe: The Secret of the Splitting of the Red Sea in the Zohar

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

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'For the Pleasure of Babies': Jewish Children and their Games in Early Modern Europe

Dr. Tali Berner

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Encounter With Library Treasures

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The Old and the Beautiful - Illumination and Text in the World's Largest Collection of Passover Haggadot

Dr. Yoel Finkelman

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Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

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Pulcellina of Blois: A Twelfth Century Moneylender and Martyr Revisited

Judith R. Baskin

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SSSHHH!

Listening to the Noise of National Libraries Around the World

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The National Library of Israel in Conversation With the National Library of Australia

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Visiting Scholars

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The Dawn of Modern Book: Erhard Ratdolt, a Printer in Venice (1476–1486)

Dr. Edoardo R. Barbieri & Dr. Luca Rivali

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Literatur im Archiv

Nachlässe an der Israelischen Nationalbibliothek Jerusalem

ENG

Die Nationalbibliothek und ihre Geschichte: Sammlungen, Personen und Wendepunkte

Dr. Stefan Litt

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"You Shall Place this Amulet under Her Left Breast": Women, Medicine, and Magic in Early Modern East-Central Europe

Dr. Andrea Gondos

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NLI USA Signature Speakers Series

NLI USA Travels Through History and Throughout the World

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Covid-19, Sir Isaac Newton, and Israel: A Rare Combination at the National Library of Israel

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Sir Isaac Newton at the National Library

Kings of Shanghai: The Jewish Dynasties that Shaped Modern China

Something’s Not Kosher: Kosher Controversies Through the Ages

History, Fiction, and Statecraft: The Confluence of Creativity and Diplomacy

Why Women’s History Matters

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The Hazon Ish letters to Zvi Yehuda: Teacher, Student, and Legacy

The Blood Libel in Modern Eastern Europe

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The Match of Hannah Senesh and the Candle of Yom Kippur

The World According to A. B. Yehoshua

Jessica Cohen: Masterclass

Comfort O Comfort: Isaiah in Poetry

Translation and the “Other”

Translating in Nabokov’s Shadow

The Secret Jews of Majorca Island

The Poet’s Voice, the Translator’s Voice

Hillel Halkin: Adventures in Translating

CHUTZ-POW! Using Graphic Prose in Holocaust Education

In honor of Eid al-Adha: “Marking Holy Time” – An Introduction to the Islamic Calendar

On Fathers and Sons – The story of the estrangement and the relationship between the greatest among Yiddish authors, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and his only son, Israel Zamir, as it emerges from the Zamir Archive at the NLI. In honor of the 30 year anniversary of Bashevis Singer’s passing

Inscription and Imagination: The 2,000 Year-old Story of a Woman Who Survived the Destruction of Jerusalem

The Tzabar Who Missed Eretz Israel – A Short Story and an Exploration of the Political Poetics of S. Yizhar

Jewish Fiction Written in 16 Languages

Reading and Rereading – The Alphabet Book of Tom Seidmann-Freud

Medieval Jewish Daily Life Meets Israeli Art

Reading Mein Kampf: Entering the Walled Garden

“Es Ist Nacht” - The songs Paul Ben-Haim did not want us to hear

Deracination and Racialization in Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales

Yirmi Pinkus, illustrator and author of "In Miniature" (also published as "Petty Business"), and "Bachelors and Widows," talks with Yuval Avivi, presenter of the program "What It Takes" at "Kan Tarbut"

All beginnings are hidden: Amalia Kahana-Carmon.

A girl's tale - Miriam Yellen-Shtaklis is not just for kids

Dialann Deoraí (Diary of an Exile): Jewish Migration and Settlement in Ireland through the Lens of Personal Experience

Burning Fields and Blossoming Letters: A Partial Reconstruction of the Volume of Ba'al Shem Tov in Agnon's Manuscript, which caught fire in his home in Germany (1924)

The bicycle boy returns to Baghdad - On the 80th anniversary of Farhud

Creative Imagination as a Music Reconstruction Method

On Guilt, Shame and Generational Continuity: Joseph Weiss, Amos Weiss and Gershom Shalom

From home to infinity: An evening for galactic creatures, stars, and space lovers

Einat Tzarfati, who wrote and illustrated "Palace in the Sand," "Trouble in Bundles," and "Neighbors" talks with Tzila Hayun, head of the Education and Culture Division at the National Library

An Algerian Sefer Torah from 1840

German and Yiddish Conversations in the Archive: Itsik Manger and Paul Celan

Rutu Modan, illustrator and comic book author, talks with Yuval Avivi, presenter of the program "What It Takes" at "Kan Tarbut"

Leaving Home: “Bustan” Program Fellows at the National Library read from their works

"For a very long time": in honor of Leah Goldberg's hidden poems

Minhag Italia

The Gary Wexler Archive: Stowed Away Portfolios of Award-Winning Advertising Campaigns for Jewish Life

David Polonsky, illustrator of the adaptation of Anne Frank's diary as a graphic diary, speaks with Tzila Hayun, head of the Education and Culture Division at the National Library

What is a moving archive? Repressed works and lost manuscripts in the Haim Hazaz Archive

A Trilingual Letter for a Trilingual Reality

The Archive of the "Tourist who Forgot to Leave:” Isaiah Tishby on Zionism, Kabbalah, and Poetry

Making it New: Medieval Muslim and Jewish Literature between Translation and Poetry

"Have We Got News For You!"—an event celebrating the addition of the Hadashot newspaper to the Historical Jewish Press website (National Library)

A Working Nation: Jewish Artisans in Eastern Europe

Roots and Stones: The Impact of the Archeological Discoveries of the Fifties and Sixties on the Revived Hebrew Letter

Adding to the Torah? Digital Tools for Jewish Texts from the Powered by Sefaria Contest 2020

Aliza Auerbach – 4 Trilogies

Saving Books: Embracing Yiddish and Cultural Identity

Nachlassbewusstsein und Bestandsbildung: Moshe Yaakov Ben-Gavriel (Eugen Hoeflich)

The Plight of the Hebrew Letter: Latinization as a Design Solution

How to Get to the Point: Making Intelligent Use of Dicta Tools to Edit and Process Texts (Nakdan, Tanakh, Talmud, Rabbinic Abbreviations)

Skirts Against the KGB: The Story of the Women of "The 35's"—Fifty Years On

Can a Language Have a Personality? On Anthropomorphizing Yiddish

Marking Sacred Time: An Introduction to the Muslim Calendar

The Art of Arabic Calligraphy: Between Past and Present

Between Ramadan and the Counting of the Omer: A Muslim-Jewish Conversation on Living in Sacred Time

New Avenues in Bible and Oral Torah Studies: How to Use the Alhatorah.org Database

The Archive of the German-Jewish Historian and Cairo Geniza Scholar Shelomo Dov Goitein

The National Library of Israel in Conversation With the National Library of Poland

What's the Pitch? Tajweed—The Art of Proper Qu'ran Recitation Meets Hebrew Cantillation. A Connection Between Different, Yet Similar Worlds

The Dance, the Dancer, and the Writer in Between: Noa Eshkol's Textual Archive

Full Black Half-Moon: Women in Religious Society, Following the Screening of "The Poetess" Documentary Film

Why Did Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Enter the Cave, and What Did He Know When He Came Out?

Two Cities—The Golden Age of Illuminated Ketubahs in Venice and Rome, on the Occasion of Concluding the Sefirat haOmer

Circumcision in the Torah and the Qur’an: The Test of Abraham and the Chosen Son

Jewish Environmentalism: Religious Responses to the Ecological Crisis

An Insider View of Peace with Bahrain, Morocco, and the UAE

Don’t Say Shhhhh in the Library! The National Library as a Center for Culture and Education