Books

When other cities put Jews in ghettos, Sabbioneta oversaw a trailblazing printing press.

Eleanor Foa
Nov. 7 2019 12:01AM

The looted books of Offenbach.

Daniel Lipson
May 7 2019 12:01AM

Rabbi David Oppenheim, 18th-century Prague’s great book collector.

Rachel L. Greenblatt
Feb. 1 2019 12:01AM

Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.

Dec. 12 2018 12:01AM

The Worms mahzor.

Ilan Ben-Zion
Sept. 12 2018 12:01AM

Promising to buy books in synagogue?

Ann Brener
March 20 2018 12:01AM

Spy games, catch-67s, lionesses, smugglers, patriots, setting suns, and more.

Dec. 27 2017 12:01AM

The Hitler Youth’s newspaper said they were burned. But it was lying.

Barbara Finkelstein
Sept. 25 2017 12:01AM

The Bomberg press of Venice.

Yoel Finkelman
Dec. 27 2016 12:01AM

“Mud angels” to the rescue.

Rossella Tercatin
Dec. 5 2016 12:01AM

The Strashun Library.

Dan Rabinowitz
Nov. 17 2015 12:01AM

Most of it has not been found.

Michael Frank
Nov. 4 2015 12:01AM

The man who brought Jewish history to the American academy tells the story of his library.

Salo Wittmayer Baron
Sept. 9 2015 12:01AM