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October 10, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-librarys-manuscripts-tell-unique-stories/2014/10/08/47aafb5e-4eb6-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html

Israeli Library's Manuscripts Tell Unique Stories

(AP-Washington Post) Many nations maintain official libraries of their countries' most prized historical manuscripts. Israel's is unique: It seeks manuscripts from every country in the world where Jews have ever lived. They include Kafka's Hebrew vocabulary notebook, the first written evidence of the Yiddish language, and the Crowns of Damascus - Bibles smuggled out of Syria 20 years ago in a Mossad spy operation. Now the National Library of Israel is pioneering a worldwide initiative to digitize every Hebrew manuscript in existence.

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