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325 p. : ill. ; col. ; facsimile ; plans ; 29 cm 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 Israel Jerusalem Library architecture Jerusalem Library buildings Israel Jerusalem Library buildings Jerusalem National Library of Israel Buildings National Library of Israel Pictorial works Z844.S5 L53 2025 9783777443225 3777443220 pucpr 260506 20260506162453.0 eng