National Library of Israel
National Library of Israel acquires copy of UK's oldest kosher cookbook belonging to Montefiores
While the cookbook was originally published anonymously by “A Lady,” scholars later attributed the title to British linguist Lady Judith Montefiore, the wife of Sir Moses Montefiore.
Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years
Grapevine: Crown jewels
The Passover playbook: Jerusalem activities the whole family can rally around during war
This week in Jerusalem: Load a car
A weekly round-up of city affairs.
Grapevine: Meet the Meridors
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Passover: Centuries-old haggadahs now available for download
The book disappeared for many years but was eventually returned to the Rothschild family, who later donated it to the National Library of Israel.
Why did medieval haggadot include pictures of men pointing at their wives?
This long-forgotten Passover custom was dealt a bitter blow by a sharp wife in a 15th-century Haggadah.
Poems and stories by the Jewish children of Kharkiv, Ukraine
A booklet labeled “The Lives of Children,” preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine.
World’s largest kabbalah collection to move to Israel's National Library
Leaving the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus after 40 years, it will relocate two kilometers to the northeast to its permanent home at the new NLI on Ruppin Boulevard.
National Library’s Ramadan Online presents rare Islamic manuscripts for holiday
NLI's Islam and Middle East Collection one of the region's leading collections, includes 2,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Turkish dating from the ninth to the 20th centuries.
Educators awarded NIS 120,000 in new prize for humanities teachers
Nechama Weingarten Mintz, Dr. Gadi Prodowski and Ziv Shaham are the first recipients of the new award for distinguished teachers in the field of humanities.
The Pope and Haman in Renaissance Italy
The only known manuscript of The Chronicle of Pope Paul IV is at the National Library in Jerusalem.
National Library unveils largest collection of Esther scrolls in the world
As the nation marks Purim, the National Library provides a rare glimpse into part of its collection of Esther scrolls.
