Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient traditions of nomadic Middle Eastern tribes.
Tag: National Library of Israel
Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots, Uncovered by Code Breakers
The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library.
Vanishing in the Desert, Traditional Bedouin Culture Lives Online
After 50 years of fieldwork in the Negev and Sinai deserts, an Israeli researcher donated his rare archive to the National Library of Israel.
A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem
The arrival in Israel of a final batch of the writer’s documents serves as a coda to a legal saga that many compared to a Kafka novel.