Yoel Finkelman

Yoel Finkelman is the curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel.

Fall 2017

Afghan Treasure

Sometime in the 11th century, a distraught, young Jewish Afghan man named Yair sent a painful letter to his brother-in-law. Life had dealt Yair a tough hand, or maybe it was just his own bad choices.

Winter 2011

ArtScroll’s Empire

Yoel Finkelman

How did a Brooklyn-based, Orthodox publishing house corner the market on religious texts in America?