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Chen Malul

Apr 14, 2022, 8:09 PM

The wine-stained Amsterdam Haggadah in the National Library of Israel collection

These manuscripts, hailing from Amsterdam to Persia and now housed in the National Library of Israel, are old, rare and, yes, full of splotches

Sep 24, 2021, 6:00 PM

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When a sukkah was built inside a house

Sukkot in Ivanovo, 1916. From the Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection (Publisher: Verlag fur allgemeines Wissen)

A photo taken by an Austrian soldier provides a rare glimpse of sukkot as they really were during the vanished Russia of World War I

Sep 16, 2021, 10:38 PM

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The half-angel, half-demon connected to Yom Kippur

The demon Azazel from the Dictionnaire Infernal.

Jewish mystical tradition teaches that Azazel was a dangerous and destructive angel, who taught human beings some of history’s most horrible lessons

Apr 29, 2020, 8:55 AM

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The only known original copy of ‘HaTikvah’

Imber's original handwritten text of Tikvatenu | Inset: Naftali Herz Imber (The Schwadron Collection at the National Library of Israel)

The song that became Israel's anthem led quite a romantic, well-traveled past, with several towns each claiming it was composed there -- its sweet-talking author had said the same

Sep 23, 2018, 2:02 PM

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The shadow you cast by the light of the Sukkot moon

The headless man. (courtesy, the National Library of Israel)

Not sure you made it into the Book of Life? See if your head is still attached to your neck

About Me

Chen Malul is a content writer for the National Library of Israel. His hobbies include reading about history, writing about history, and talking about history.