A spectacularly illustrated new book charts the contents of one of the world’s most valuable libraries of Jewish books, and pays tribute to the obsessives who tracked them all down.
A Jewish perspective on “biographies” of religious classics.
Deeds of lovingkindness.
The Strashun Library, and the heroism of those who saved it.
Beware “Rabbi Robber and Rabbi Thief.”
City of the book.
When other cities put Jews in ghettos, Sabbioneta oversaw a trailblazing printing press.
The looted books of Offenbach.
Rabbi David Oppenheim, 18th-century Prague’s great book collector.
Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.
The Worms mahzor.
Promising to buy books in synagogue?
Black fire on white fire.
Spy games, catch-67s, lionesses, smugglers, patriots, setting suns, and more.