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Behavior Patterns: The Too-Early Mourning of Printed Books, and the Reading Experience of Digital Books

Third Meeting:

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Musical Treasures at the NLI

A series of Events

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Reviving Cantorial Music, from the Archives to the stage: the case of the cantors of Odessa

Fourth meeting

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Unwritten Culture

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

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“Photographic Truth is Nature’s Truth” [Boris Schatz] – Chronicle of the Photography Department at Bezalel (1984-1910)

Seventh Meeting: Photography Cluster

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“I have seen the poverty of my people in Egypt”: Aiding the Poor Among Jews in Cairo in the 16th Century

Dr. Dotan Arad

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Mechanic Words

Literature in the Age of Tech - Series

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Predicting the Future Innovations and Inventions that Found Their Way from Literature to Reality, From the Screen to Space

Second Meeting:

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Conversation

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A Conversation Between Editors, on the Edited Works of Zach, and His Influence on Hebrew Poetry

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Seminar on the Writings of Natan Zach

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“Who Could Have Known What I Didn’t Know” The Epistemological Chase in Natan Zach’s Early Poems

First Session: Prof. Dan Miron, Hebrew University

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Journeys of European Rulers to the Holy Land

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Colonialism and Science: Napoleon Bonaparte in the Middle East

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Visiting Scholars

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Next-door Neighbors: Jewish-Christian Legal Encounters in Medieval Ashkenaz

Dr. Rachel Furst

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Mechanic Words

Literature in the Age of Tech - Series

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The Soul in the Machine Can Machines Write Literature? What Would this Mean for Human Creativity?

First Meeting:

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Unwritten Culture

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

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Fifth Meeting: Architecture Cluster

Daughters of a New Land: Architects and Women’s Groups in the Mandate Period

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Only One Truth: The Legend and Reality of the Lehi

Prof. Aryeh Eldad

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Visiting Scholars

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What Were the Zionists Looking for in Palestine? Relations with the ‘Orient’ and Locals in Zionist Culture

Dr. Hanan Harif

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Musical Treasures at the NLI

A series of Events

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Creating a Jewish-Israeli Music Archive: Manuscripts, Recordings and More

Dr. Gila Flam

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Visiting Scholars

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What Language Is This? Linguistic Diversity and Classification in Turkic Textual Collections

Dr. Michael Erdman

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Journeys of European Rulers to the Holy Land

Series

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Prince Frederick III of Saxony and the Lucas Cranach Map

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The Printed Chapter/Aspect of the Talmud

Ittai Joseph Tamari, Ph.D.

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The Memory of Goodness - Honoring the Righteous Among the Nations

Irena Steinfeldt

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Unwritten Culture

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

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A Room of His Own: On Amos Hetz’s Dance Archive and the Room Dance Festival

Fourth Meeting: Dance

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Listening to the Noise of National Libraries Around the World

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The National Library of Israel in Conversation with the British Library

Roly Keating & Oren Weinberg

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Visiting Scholars

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Between Bavli and Bundahishn: New Research on Judaism and Zoroastrianism in the Sasanian Empire

Dr. Samuel Thrope

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Matan Hermoni, Author, Winner of the Bernstein Prize. His Books Include: Hebrew Publishing Company, Spielfogel Spielfogel

Yuval Avivi

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Unwritten Culture

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

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From the Soviet Union to the Land of Israel: The Migration of the Holocaust to the Israeli Theater in the 1940s

Third Meeting: Theater

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden OBE with Dr Raquel Ukeles

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Visiting Scholars

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Demons: Friends or Foes?

Gal Sofer

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Leah Aini, Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Literary Works, the Bernstein Prize, and the Newman Prize. Her books include: The Dress, The Native, Rose of Lebanon

Leah Aini & Yuval Avivi

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Unwritten Culture

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

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Place and Symbol: Jerusalem in the Works of Dan Reisinger, Commemorating the National Library’s Acquisition of Dan Reisinger’s Archive

Second Meeting: Design

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Behind the Scenes @ NLI

Stories from behind the scenes at the National Library of Israel

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Magicians in the Laboratory: Marcella Scali, Director of the Rehabilitation and Conservation Laboratory at the National Library

Marcella Scali & Tsila Hayun

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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The Bible With and Without Jesus

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Sami Bardugo, Winner of the 2020 Brenner Prize: His Books include: Donkey, The Last Child of the Century, That is to Say

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Visiting Scholars

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The Engineer and the Poet: Ben Yehuda and Bialik’s Linguistic Innovations, in Honor of Hebrew Language Day and Bialik’s Birthday

Dr. Rubik Rosenthal

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Visiting Scholars

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Conrad Schick - the Most Famous German Protestant Who Built Jerusalem in the 19th Century

Dr. Shirley Graetz

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Visiting Scholars

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What Can the Mosaics in Church of the Nativity Tell Us?

Yisca Harani

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Visiting Scholars

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"On the Altar of the Press": Jewish Print Culture in 19th Century North Africa

Dr. Noam Sienna

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Visiting Scholars

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Midrash of the Northern Renaissance: Rembrandt's Readers - Reading Rembrandt

William Kolbrener

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Visiting Scholars

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The Sigd as a Modern Jewish Holiday

Professor Don Seeman

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Human Margin of Error and its Effects on Jewish Law: Insights from this Week’s Daf Yomi

Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber

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The Early Modern Memorbuch: Memory, Charity and Community

Professor Debra Kaplan

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Earthquake epicenter

Yuval Avivi in conversation with Oded Carmeli

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The Angels of History

Ellie Green In conversation with Yuval Avivi

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Paparazzis in Lublin Yeshivas - The Self-Documenting Obsession of the Lublin Jewish Community

Dr. Yoel Finkelman

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An encounter with items from Sutskever’s archives at the National Library of Israel and the National Library of Lithuania

Dr. Oren Roman and Dr. Lara Lempert

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Virtual visit to the Ba'alei Hamelaha Screenprinting Studio and a conversation with its founder Yaacov Ben Cohen.

Yaacov Ben Cohen

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Gevald! On the Aesthethics of Protest: Buenos Aires to Mea Shearim, Gdańsk to Paris

Lahav Halevi

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Censorship, the Next Generation: When Your Feed Shuts You Up

Nitsan Saddan

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Following the screening of the film: "A Lullaby for the Valley"

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What’s Your Deal, Madam Ferrante?

Julia Fermento and Yuval Avivi

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Apocalypse Now

Dr. Roey Tzezana speaks with Yuval Avivi

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Cutting Records: A Disappearing World

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The Anthropology of Imagination – Ursula K. Le Guin and Her Work

Noa Manheim

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Masterclass with Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen

Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen

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Dvora’s Pages: Dvora Omer’s Personal Archive at the National Library of Israel

Dr. Hagit Zimroni

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Conversation following the film 'In Your Eyes, I See My Country'

Dr. Raquel Ukeles

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Arendt in Israel: From Boycott to Worship

Dr. Adi Armon

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Following the screening of the film: "Rain in Her Eyes"

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

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“And to Be a Lamp Sowing Light” (Quran Sura 33 Verse 46): The Prophet Muhammad’s Birth in History, Thought and Culture

Doctor Khalid Abu Ras

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“We’re on the Map”: Maps in Golden Age Dutch Paintings

Fourth Meeting

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

ENG

Cultural Phenomena Outside of the Mainstream in the UAE

Katie Wachsberger

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Collections of Memories

Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality

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Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv

Dan Tadmor

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Anat Einhar, Author and Illustrator; 2010 Sapir Prize Laureate. Her Books include Summer Predators (2008) and Mind Blowing Ecstasy (2015)

Yuval Avivi

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Visiting Scholars

Scholars invite the public for a glimpse into their research

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From "A City of the Dead" to "A City in Its Fullness": Tracing the Nostalgic Arc in Agnon's Writing (Through the National Library's Archive)

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks

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Collections of Memories

Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality

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The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

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Academic seminar

The Fate of Two Barons In Honor of the Discovery of the Jewish Colonization Association Archives at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

Argentina or Palestine?

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Behind the Scenes @ NLI

Stories from behind the scenes at the National Library of Israel

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Hila Zaksenberg, head of the National Library’s Visual Culture and Performing Arts Project

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Dr. Yaakov Z. Meir, writer and author of the novels Also a Bird (2012) and Nehemiah (2019)

Yuval Avivi

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From Imaginary Sketched Maps to Exact Maps – The Development of Jerusalem Maps

Professor Emeritus Rehav (Buni) Rubin

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Matchmakers

NLI curators connect three items in surprising ways

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Tolstoy, The Imam from Dagestan and The Lubavitcher Rebbe

Dr. Raquel Ukeles

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Follow-Up to the Peace Agreement Signing: Nonmainstream Cultural Phenomena in the United Arab Emirates

Katie Wachsberger

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Edward Robinson, Father of Critical Nineteenth Century Scholarship on the Land of Israel: What and Why? Some Remarks and Revelations

Professor Haim Goren

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Meir Shalev, award-winning author and journalist

His books include The Blue Mountain (1988), Esau (1991), A Pigeon and a Boy (2006) and Two She-Bears (2013)

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Behind the Scenes @ NLI

Stories from behind the scenes at the National Library of Israel

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From the Reading Room to the World of Reading: The Library in the Digital Age

Yaron Deutscher, head of the National Library’s Digital Access Division

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Collections of Memories

Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality

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The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

Dr. Kamilė Rupeikaitė

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Visiting Scholars

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Hasidic Tales and the Jews’ Fantastical Sukkah

Benyamin Shvili

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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The Privilege and the Challenge of Living Alongside a Great Man

Rabbi Dov Singer with Meni Even-Israel

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Water, Great Depths and Thirst in the World That Was and in the Coming Age

Professor Haviva Pedaya

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From Monsters to David and Bathsheba on Ancient Maps - The Story Behinds the Hidden Figures on Ancient Maps

First Meeting:

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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Tense Relations: The Besht’s Followers Meet the Disciples of the Maggid of Mezeritch

Professor Yitzhak Melamed and Rabbi Avraham Avish Shur

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Visiting Scholars

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"Funny, You Don’t Sound Jewish!” - How Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture Shaped Judaism as We Know It

Dr. Miriam Goldstein

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Nir Baram, Author and Publicist, Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2010). Author of The Remaker of Dreams (2006), Good People (2010), and At Night’s End (2018)

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Matchmakers

NLI curators connect three items in surprising ways

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A Forged Scroll, an Enchanted Amulet, and Pandora’s Box

Dr. Yoel Finkelman

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Partners in Thought

Thinking encounters

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Speaking Infinities: Language and Reality in Early Hasidism

Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse

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The Liturgical Poem “Our Father Our King” Through the Ages: A Test Case for Theological and Gender-Oriented Struggle

Rabbi Dalia Marx

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Collections of Memories

Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality

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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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Does the Confessional Prayer Have Something to Say to Contemporary Man?

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow

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Thought Games: Associative Thinking in the Late Middle Ages

Doctor Ayelet Even-Ezra

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"Nobody expects the Italian Inquisition." A Reflection on Trials against Professing Jews

Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller

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Writers Speak

Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves

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Dr. Esther Peled, Psychologist, Recipient of the 2017 Sapir Prize for Literature, Author of In the Clear Light of Reality (2012) and Widely Open Underneath (2017)

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To Be Jews Again After One Hundred Years of Disconnection in the Western Sephardic Diaspora – The Conversos’ Return to Judaism’s Embrace

Dr. Aliza Moreno

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Strange New World

Conversations in Times of Crisis

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The Challenges of Cooperation and Adaptability in Times of Pandemic

Thomas Friedman

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The Liturgical Poetry of Ashkenaz Comes to Life - The Jubilee Anniversary of the Goldschmidt Edition of the High Holiday Mahzor

Avraham Frenkel

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The Best High Holiday Poetry: Selichot for the Month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance composed by the Liturgical Poets of Muslim Spain

Doctor Ariel Zinder

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Galit Dahan-Carlibach, author of The Locked Garden (2010), On the Edge (2014), and It’s Me, Iowa (2018)

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Collections of Memories

Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality

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The New Venice Ghetto Museum

Director Marcella Ansaldi

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Strange New World

Conversations in Times of Crisis

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Justice and Leadership in Crisis

Professor Michael Sandel

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European Days of Jewish Culture 2020

Opening event for AEPJ European Days of Jewish Culture

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"Trees have roots, Jews have legs". On Jews and their Journeys

Jeremy Leigh

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Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel and COVID-19 – Imagination, Stereotypes and Reality

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Family Life: What People Said and What People Did

Shaul Stampfer

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Past Events

Behavior Patterns: The Too-Early Mourning of Printed Books, and the Reading Experience of Digital Books

Reviving Cantorial Music, from the Archives to the stage: the case of the cantors of Odessa

“Photographic Truth is Nature’s Truth” [Boris Schatz] – Chronicle of the Photography Department at Bezalel (1984-1910)

“I have seen the poverty of my people in Egypt”: Aiding the Poor Among Jews in Cairo in the 16th Century

Predicting the Future Innovations and Inventions that Found Their Way from Literature to Reality, From the Screen to Space

From the Judicial Bench to the Children’s Room-

Purim on Pesach: Yiddish Parodies of the Passover Haggadah

Resounding Ritual, Time and Place: Psalm 126 in the German-Jewish Tradition

A Conversation Between Editors, on the Edited Works of Zach, and His Influence on Hebrew Poetry

“Who Could Have Known What I Didn’t Know” The Epistemological Chase in Natan Zach’s Early Poems

Colonialism and Science: Napoleon Bonaparte in the Middle East

Next-door Neighbors: Jewish-Christian Legal Encounters in Medieval Ashkenaz

The Soul in the Machine Can Machines Write Literature? What Would this Mean for Human Creativity?

Fifth Meeting: Architecture Cluster

Only One Truth: The Legend and Reality of the Lehi

What Were the Zionists Looking for in Palestine? Relations with the ‘Orient’ and Locals in Zionist Culture

Creating a Jewish-Israeli Music Archive: Manuscripts, Recordings and More

What Language Is This? Linguistic Diversity and Classification in Turkic Textual Collections

Prince Frederick III of Saxony and the Lucas Cranach Map

The Printed Chapter/Aspect of the Talmud

The Memory of Goodness - Honoring the Righteous Among the Nations

A Room of His Own: On Amos Hetz’s Dance Archive and the Room Dance Festival

The National Library of Israel in Conversation with the British Library

Between Bavli and Bundahishn: New Research on Judaism and Zoroastrianism in the Sasanian Empire

Matan Hermoni, Author, Winner of the Bernstein Prize. His Books Include: Hebrew Publishing Company, Spielfogel Spielfogel

From the Soviet Union to the Land of Israel: The Migration of the Holocaust to the Israeli Theater in the 1940s

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Demons: Friends or Foes?

Leah Aini, Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Literary Works, the Bernstein Prize, and the Newman Prize. Her books include: The Dress, The Native, Rose of Lebanon

Place and Symbol: Jerusalem in the Works of Dan Reisinger, Commemorating the National Library’s Acquisition of Dan Reisinger’s Archive

Magicians in the Laboratory: Marcella Scali, Director of the Rehabilitation and Conservation Laboratory at the National Library

The Bible With and Without Jesus

Sami Bardugo, Winner of the 2020 Brenner Prize: His Books include: Donkey, The Last Child of the Century, That is to Say

The Engineer and the Poet: Ben Yehuda and Bialik’s Linguistic Innovations, in Honor of Hebrew Language Day and Bialik’s Birthday

Conrad Schick - the Most Famous German Protestant Who Built Jerusalem in the 19th Century

What Can the Mosaics in Church of the Nativity Tell Us?

"On the Altar of the Press": Jewish Print Culture in 19th Century North Africa

Midrash of the Northern Renaissance: Rembrandt's Readers - Reading Rembrandt

The Sigd as a Modern Jewish Holiday

Human Margin of Error and its Effects on Jewish Law: Insights from this Week’s Daf Yomi

The Early Modern Memorbuch: Memory, Charity and Community

Earthquake epicenter

The Angels of History

Paparazzis in Lublin Yeshivas - The Self-Documenting Obsession of the Lublin Jewish Community

An encounter with items from Sutskever’s archives at the National Library of Israel and the National Library of Lithuania

Virtual visit to the Ba'alei Hamelaha Screenprinting Studio and a conversation with its founder Yaacov Ben Cohen.

Gevald! On the Aesthethics of Protest: Buenos Aires to Mea Shearim, Gdańsk to Paris

Censorship, the Next Generation: When Your Feed Shuts You Up

Following the screening of the film: "A Lullaby for the Valley"

What’s Your Deal, Madam Ferrante?

Apocalypse Now

Cutting Records: A Disappearing World

The Anthropology of Imagination – Ursula K. Le Guin and Her Work

Masterclass with Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen

Dvora’s Pages: Dvora Omer’s Personal Archive at the National Library of Israel

Conversation following the film 'In Your Eyes, I See My Country'

Arendt in Israel: From Boycott to Worship

Following the screening of the film: "Rain in Her Eyes"

“And to Be a Lamp Sowing Light” (Quran Sura 33 Verse 46): The Prophet Muhammad’s Birth in History, Thought and Culture

“We’re on the Map”: Maps in Golden Age Dutch Paintings

Cultural Phenomena Outside of the Mainstream in the UAE

Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv

Anat Einhar, Author and Illustrator; 2010 Sapir Prize Laureate. Her Books include Summer Predators (2008) and Mind Blowing Ecstasy (2015)

From "A City of the Dead" to "A City in Its Fullness": Tracing the Nostalgic Arc in Agnon's Writing (Through the National Library's Archive)

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

Argentina or Palestine?

Hila Zaksenberg, head of the National Library’s Visual Culture and Performing Arts Project

Dr. Yaakov Z. Meir, writer and author of the novels Also a Bird (2012) and Nehemiah (2019)

From Imaginary Sketched Maps to Exact Maps – The Development of Jerusalem Maps

Tolstoy, The Imam from Dagestan and The Lubavitcher Rebbe

Follow-Up to the Peace Agreement Signing: Nonmainstream Cultural Phenomena in the United Arab Emirates

Edward Robinson, Father of Critical Nineteenth Century Scholarship on the Land of Israel: What and Why? Some Remarks and Revelations

Meir Shalev, award-winning author and journalist

From the Reading Room to the World of Reading: The Library in the Digital Age

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

Hasidic Tales and the Jews’ Fantastical Sukkah

The Privilege and the Challenge of Living Alongside a Great Man

Water, Great Depths and Thirst in the World That Was and in the Coming Age

From Monsters to David and Bathsheba on Ancient Maps - The Story Behinds the Hidden Figures on Ancient Maps