Le roi David

The Eichmann Effect

On May 23, 1960, Haya Hirsch burst into the Tel Aviv apartment of her upstairs neighbors and shouted, “Can you believe that we caught him? Can you believe it?” A key Nazi official and an architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, had just been captured in Argentina and brought to Israel to

Yesterday’s News: The Story of the Historical Jewish Press Archive

On the day that marked the official founding of what would one day be called the National Library of Israel, the residents of the Land of Israel were consumed by alarming rumors of a deadly disease spreading from distant Russia. In the city of Saratov, doctors were said to be burying patients al

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