{"id":1788,"date":"2014-03-25T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fatfish.xyz\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1788"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:22:31","slug":"ex-libris","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/en\/publication\/ex-libris\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Libris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>E<\/em><em><span dir=\"LTR\">x-Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"LTR\">\u00a0tells the story of three events that took place within the national library: The \u201cDiaspora Treasures\u201d project, which after World War II brought to Jerusalem hundreds of thousands of books owned by Jews that had been looted by the Nazis; the collection during the 1948 war of 30,000 books that were owned by Palestinians; and the <\/span><span dir=\"LTR\">gathering of books and manuscripts from Yemenite Jews who arrived in Israel at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span dir=\"LTR\">These books are evidence of both the severing of human beings from their heritage and of Zionism\u2019s claim to ownership of the country\u2019s Jewish past as well as its pre-Zionist past. 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Amit\u2019s book reveals the proximity between literature and sociopolitical violence, and it paints a new portrait of the national library in Jerusalem: not as an innocent space, surrounded by its frozen halls of the spirit, and not as a site of sealed history, but rather, above all, as a continuous present moving through the entanglements of its past\u2014a space of wrongdoing and injustice that simultaneously offers us opportunities for recognition, correction, and forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library\u00a0tells the story of three events that took place within the national library: The \u201cDiaspora Treasures\u201d project, which after World War II brought to Jerusalem hundreds of thousands of books owned by Jews that had been looted by the Nazis; the collection during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32400,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[102,5117,103,140],"product_tag":[108],"class_list":{"0":"post-1788","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-israel-the-palestinians-and-the-middle-east","7":"product_cat-research-and-scholarship","8":"product_cat-society-and-culture-in-israel","9":"product_cat-theme-israel-in-me","10":"product_tag-theory-and-criticism-in-context-series","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sale","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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