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A new memoir by the grandson of a Russian bibliophile is also a great intellectual history of the 20th century

Louise Sylvia Katz checked out Ludwig Lewisohn’s Israel in 1928

The Argentinian-born man of letters, cosmopolitan defender of books and reading, is exiled to a world of his own making

An international cast of characters is embroiled in a bizarre legal dispute over the late rabbi’s personal collection of books

In his new memoir ‘Free Spirit,’ Joshua Safran turns to the library to understand the Jewish heritage his mother can’t explain

Children’s book artists donate auction items after school library loses funding

I almost gave away my father’s legendary book collection—until I realized it held a priceless inheritance

Israel’s main library remains underfunded and short on staff, even as neighboring cultural institutions thrive

‘Burn these books,’ candidate once said of Hebrew works