Library

The social repository everyone can use: Tools, guides, and insights from the field

The "Digital Library" of JDC Israel is an open public repository offering up-to-date working tools for the social field.

When practical knowledge meets field experience – a foundation is built that can help tackle present challenges and prepare for the future
 Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library.

Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library

 CUSTOMERS REVIEW the shelves at a Jerusalem bookstore.

Man burns books on Jewish history, including Anne Frank’s diary, in Jewish suburb of Cleveland

Amitay Singer Studio, interior design - Adi Shaked

"Library" is a term that sounds sleepy. Until you encounter the ones that will change your mind


The librarian of Auschwitz

In November 1942, Dita Kraus was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto. From there she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she became the librarian of the smallest library in the world.

DITA KRAUS, 88, at her Netanya home.

Valuable Hebrew manuscript collection to be digitized

While the originals will remain in Russia, around 2,000 manuscripts and thousands of books will be digitized and made accessible to researchers.

The Günzburg collection was digitized established in the 19th century by Joseph Günzburg (1812-1878) and continued by his son Horace.

Peaple and places: From librarian to Israeli businesswoman

It is my little bit of tikkun olam – making Israel a better place.

Nomi Lawson at the Osfa boutique in Baka.

The second lives of four Israeli librarians

‘The job satisfies my fantasy of being an eternal student'

Galila Sfarim

In Russia, a treasure trove of books

The Jewish Museum in Moscow is set to open a multimedia library unlike any other in the world.

Along with its new digitized contents, the Jewish Museum in Moscow will not be without books, especially Russian and Yiddish tomes

מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִית

New children’s book: Creation

New children’s book: Creation

In your footsteps, Orwell

Without public financial support, most of the artistic events and venues simply cannot survive.

The Soviet leadership with (standing at left) Central Committee secretary Andrei Zhdanov. (Leader Joseph Stalin is standing second from right.)

Old City’s Khalidi Library reopens after nearly a half century

Islamic legal texts are at the core of the collection. Other fields include medicine, history, geography, astronomy, Koranic exegesis, rhetoric, logic, philosophy and poetry.

Old City’s Khalidi Library

Books and a cultural fabric

The future of the National Library began this week with the laying of a cornerstone.

ISRAEL’S FUTURE NATIONAL LIBRARY, designed by Basel architects Herzog and de Meuron, will include a central reading room under a luminous glass dome.

WATCH LIVE: Netanyahu, Rivlin attend cornerstone laying ceremony for new National Library

The new library complex is scheduled to open its doors to the public in 2020.

The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, set to be completed in 2020