Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks personal archive The Rabbi Sacks Legacy and the National Library of Israel announced the arrival of the personal archive of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks to the Library in April 2024, with support from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. NLI received some 50 cartons of archival material, which are being cataloged and made accessible to researchers. On the heels of this, the 4th annual Sacks Conversation, honoring the legacy of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and his enduring impact as a global and unifying moral voice, took place in November 2024 at the Library and culminated in an evening conversation between US Ambassador to Israel Jacob J. Lew and Jerusalem-born writer and educator Rachel Sharansky Danziger. A video recording of the event is available here.
Riwaq: A Day of Bedouin Culture at the National Library of Israel
To preserve precious evidence of Bedouin dialects, oral history, law, material culture, and daily life that would otherwise be lost, NLI has, over several years, acquired a number of important archives documenting Bedouin history, culture, and society in southern Israel, the Sinai Peninsula, and Jordan, such as that of Clinton Bailey z”l, who passed away in January 2025. Riwaq: A Day of Bedouin Culture at the National Library of Israel shined a spotlight on these collections, all available digitally. A symposium on the theme of documenting and preserving Bedouin culture in times of change attracted residents of the Bedouin city of Rahat, scholars, and other attendees from the Bedouin community and beyond, and culminated in a performance of Bedouin music and a contemporary dance piece, “Rahat-Jerusalem.” This program was supported by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, and Sally Gottesman, and was a joint project with the Rahat Municipality, the Rahat Cultural Center, and the Arabic Language and Literature Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Affirming the Diaspora: The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Glikl of Hameln (1645–1724) is best known as the author of a highly personal, Yiddish-language diary that offers a rare and intimate look into the life of an early modern European Jewish woman. Only one example of her handwriting survives: her declaration and signature in a ledger listing donations to the Jewish communities in the Land of Israel. The ledger, along with millions of other documents relating to Jewish
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