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Yemenite Jews walking to a ‘reception camp’ near Aden, 1949. (Photo by Kluger Zoltan/Israel National Archive)
How Jewish and Palestinian cultural artifacts became Israeli property
A new book looks at the ways in which ancient religious manuscripts belonging to Yemenite Jews, as well as thousands of books owned by Palestinians and Holocaust survivors became part of Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem. By Gish Amit (Translated by Shaked Spier) The book “Ex Libris: History of Robbery, Preservation, and Appropriation in the National…
By Haokets April 25, 2015
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