Why Jews should pay close attention to book banning and bomb threats against libraries
Threats against libraries across America recall a harrowing antisemitic history
Threats against libraries across America recall a harrowing antisemitic history
The National Library of Israel wants to take a closer look at 35,000 books in its collection that had been stolen by the Nazis
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
The first show at the JTS library's new gallery has rare ketubot from different centuries and continents
A new report sheds light on Henry Miller Madden's Nazi views
On December 18, iconic film director Steven Spielberg, will turn 75. No doubt, admirers of his work round the world will mark the event by watching some of his greatest movies, including “The Color Purple”, “Jaws” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”. Others will return to movie theatres after a long plague-driven break, to catch his newest…
Jewish groups have issued a legal threat against a public library in New Jersey if librarians proceed with a public reading of a book called “P is for Palestine,” the Bridgewater Courier News reported Monday. The two groups – the Central Jersey Jewish Public Affairs Committee and the Zachor Legal Institute, a legal group that…
(JTA) — Seems like the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, the book-classification method for libraries that bears his name, was out of order in his treatment of minorities and women. Now the Council of the American Library Association has voted to remove Melvil Dewey, the association’s founder, from its creative leadership medal because of…
אינעם ליד „אין סוכּה“, בעט דער פּאָעט קלמן רייזען בײַם אייבערשטן אַז די גוייִשע ייִנגלעך זאָלן חלילה נישט איבערקערן זײַן סוכּהלע