02414nam a22003137a 4500 pucpr 20260506162453.0 260506b2025 |||aeh|| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9783777443225 3777443220 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET Z844.S5 L53 2025 Bruno, Ido 303194 The library : an open book. / txt Munich, Germany : Hirmer Publishers, 2025. 325 p. : ill. ; col. ; facsimile ; plans ; 29 cm book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Foreword Hannah Rothschild 17 -- About the Book Ido Bruno 25 -- I. Building, Site, City -- Opening Gate I 35 -- A Holy of Holy Books Simon Sebag Montefiore 39 -- The Jerusalem Library: A Circle in Stone Deyan Sudjic 47 -- Reading a Library Ido Bruno 57 -- Photographs Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, Avraham Hay, Eli Singalovski -- II. The Authors -- A Book that was Lost S. Y. Agnon 124 -- In the Shadow of Ardon’s Windows Haim Be’er 132 -- Advice to Library Visitors Martin Buber 140 -- The Village Library Meir Shalev 144 -- The Grownups’ Library Dorit Rabinyan 154 -- Library Lovers Etgar Keret 160 -- The Library by the Morgue Azar Nafisi 166 -- The Living Library Susan Orlean 174 -- A Private Jewish Library in the Middle Ages Avriel Bar-Levav and Yehuda Gizbar Fenigstein 180 -- A Galactic Outcast Haviva Pedaya 188 -- Paintings Zoya Cherkasssky -- III. The Future of the Libraries -- No End Simon Schama 201 -- Death and Rebirth in the New National Library of Israel Oren Weinberg and Raquel Ukeles 213 -- Libraries must be Free Raquel Ukeles 217 -- Polar Bear Etgar Keret 228 -- The Perfect Bibliophiles Lior Zalmanson 237 -- The One Rutu Modan 252 -- We the Guardians Lídia Jorge 282 -- Photographs Eli Singalovski -- Acknowledgments 321 -- About the Contributors 327 -- Library architecture 125807 Israel Jerusalem Library architecture 125807 Jerusalem Library buildings 125812 Israel Jerusalem Library buildings 125812 Jerusalem National Library of Israel 303195 Buildings National Library of Israel 303195 Pictorial works lcc 27 Z844.S54 General L53 2025 306292 306292 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2026-05-06 Amazon 50.65 0 General Z844.S54 L53 2025 91000000754127 2026-05-06 16:26:09 1 60.65 0000-00-00 27