Dan Rabinowitz

Dan Rabinowitz is the director of the Strashun Library Ledger Project, which is digitizing and cataloging the ledgers; founder and coeditor of the widely read Seforim Blog; and the author of The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Brandeis University Press).

Why was it so important to a prominent haredi rabbi to tie himself up in speculative knots just to deny a library checkout list?

In the world's first Jewish public library, bearded scholars read side-by-side with bare-armed women.