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Livro de ascamot: A List of the Books in Yeshivat ‘Ets Ḥayim
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1639

Subjects:

Libraries, Language and linguistics, Jewish languages

Categories:

History, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Manuscript page of Roman text in numbered list.
Book Acquisitions of the ‘Ets Haim Yeshiva for the Years 1718/9 and 1732/33
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1718/19 and 1732/33

Subjects:

Libraries, Scholarship, Education, Jewish quarters, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Lists & Catalogues, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Portuguese text.
Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria
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Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…

Contributor:

Rachel Whiteread

Places:

Vienna, Austria

Date:

2000

Subjects:

Art, Conceptualism, Memorial, Holocaust, Libraries

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Sculpture
Small rectangular building made of steel and concrete with double doors on square base next to city buildings.