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The National Library of Israel and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature have launched a new collaboration that will promote their shared vision to further cultivate a vibrant international Jewish literary culture and community. The prize will be officially announced as the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature awarded in association with the National Library of Israel.

NLI and the Sami Rohr Prize have announced the winner for its 2022 prize for nonfiction on May 17 to Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (Mariner Books), The brilliantly told story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland.

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Poems and Stories by the Jewish Children of Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Cultivating a Jewish Literary Legacy

Mar
01

Isaac Newton’s Map of the Apocalypse

Feb
10

Cracking the Tu B’Shvat-Shmita conundrum

Feb
01

Israel’s national library sees Arabic site traffic boom

Jan
13

Vanishing in the Desert, Traditional Bedouin Culture Lives Online

Oct
18

May Update

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17

April Update

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05

March Update

Mar
09

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