TY - BOOK ED - Bruno, Ido TI - The library : : an open book. SN - 9783777443225 AV - Z844.S5 L53 2025 PY - 2025/// CY - Munich, Germany PB - Hirmer Publishers, KW - Library architecture KW - Israel Jerusalem KW - Jerusalem KW - Library buildings KW - National Library of Israel KW - Buildings KW - Pictorial works N1 - 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 -- ER -