NATL Library Israel

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The National Library of Israel - Collecting & preserving cultural treasures. Over 5 million volumes of books, recordings & archives.

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  1. And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Sylvia Plath would have been 84 today.

  2. It's after Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret has passed, we're preparing for the first rain! Are you prepared? [Picture: The Bitmuna Collection]

  3. Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914 and his poetry lives on because death shall have no dominion, of course.

  4. A Jewish day at school in Mosul, Iraq, 1934. (From the Ben-Zion Israeli collection)

  5. "Hollywood Fights Back!" in support of the Hollywood 10, prosecuted by HUAC in 1947.

  6. When Carlo Collodi completed Pinocchio in 1883, he couldn't have imagined how far his boy would go. Pinocchio in the Land of Israel, 1950

  7. Polio was a disease that seemed unstoppable until Jonas Salk finished developing the first successful Polio vaccine in 1952.

  8. Celebrate with that classic and awesome Pasta Bologna poster from the Eri Wallish Collection.

  9. This week 11 years ago the woman who would not be moved passed away. We remember Rosa Parks.

  10. How was the drive to work after the holidays?

  11. "Rejoice and Be Merry in Simchat Torah" is emblazoned across the top of the flag depicting the hakafot.

  12. A blast from the past! a Simchat Torah (or Simches Toyres) postcard from 1888, Poland! Enjoy the hakafot!

  13. NATL Library Israel followed , , and 86 others
  14. How now moo cow? Fun days on the kibbutz over the holiday!

  15. A rendition of a man holding the four species of Sukkot.

  16. Take a small break, dip your feet in the water.

  17. Performing the mitzvot under the Sukkah, 1957.

  18. This child is having a great time in the Sukkah!

  19. Sukkot in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Me'ah Sh'earim, 1950

  20. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim painted this family holiday under the Sukkah in 1882.

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