Libraries

The Oldest Jewish Library Still in Use

And the Dutch-Portuguese ex-converts who founded it.

Heidi Warncke
Jan. 9 2024 12:01AM

How Books Looted by the Third Reich Made Their Way to Los Angeles

The remnants of Prague’s once-great Jewish library.

Diane Mizrachi and Michal Bušek
Nov. 6 2023 12:01AM

A Dutch Jew’s Extraordinary Library, Its Curator, and a Modern Republic of Rabbinic Letters

Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim, in memoriam.

Theodor Dunkelgrün
Sept. 19 2023 12:01AM

Uncovering the Treasures of a Four-Century-Old Jewish Library

Founded by ex-conversos, it holds the world’s oldest manuscript of Maimonides’ code.

Martin Rosenberg
July 11 2023 12:01AM

A Librarian and Holocaust Survivor Dedicated to Preserving the Jewish Past

Menachem Schmelzer, in memoriam.

Joseph Berger
Dec. 29 2022 12:01AM

How Harvard Came to Have the Largest Judaica Library in the Diaspora

“A moral obligation.”

Lydialyle Gibson
Aug. 26 2022 12:01AM

The Library of Congress’s Hebrew Treasures

From 1491 to 2021.

Gabby Deutsch
Nov. 12 2021 12:01AM

How a Famed Jewish Library Put a Two-Century-Old Manuscript Up for Auction

And the sleuth who discovered it.

Asaf Shalev
July 29 2021 12:01AM