Three organizations—the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books, a nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation of old Hebrew texts; dtSearch Corp., the manufacturer of the dtSearch product ...
The National Library of Israel has presented its annual report on the Israeli publishing industry for the year 2021, which points to a resurgence in the Israeli book market, and indicates that for the ...
In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them. Though it’s become fairly common for English language books to contain snippets of Spanish — ...
The wide-ranging project runs from The Book ('Tanach') to the 'Zohar', prayer books for festivals, Talmud, books on philosophy and important Hebrew-languange writers such as S.Y. Agnon and Leah ...
An unusual collection of books relating to the history and literature of the Jews has been placed on exhibition in the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University, in honor of the 91st Anniversary of ...
Like many Israelis, Shelley Goldman, a retired book and newspaper editor from Tel Aviv, was shocked when Irish author Sally Rooney said she will not sell the Hebrew-language rights to her latest book ...
Six classic texts of modern Hebrew literature viewed from a variety of critical perspectives. "Reading Hebrew Literature" explores the many ways Israeli literature is read in the United States. In it, ...
In his job as a publisher, Moshe Sakal often needs to communicate with Israel about his books’ bar codes. Sometimes these ...
I recently spent an evening of wonder and reflection in the company of several Judaic incunabula (printed books in Hebrew from the 15th century) at Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum & Library. Each was ...
Sotheby’s sold a roughly 1,100-year-old Hebrew manuscript for $38.1 million on Wednesday, making it the second-most expensive historical document ever auctioned. The 26-pound book, whose five-inch ...