Shai Secunda on Israel’s National Library
Contributing Editor Shai Secunda joins the Jewish Review of Books Podcast to discuss the new National Library of Israel and the great project of gathering Jewish culture under a roof that mixes the classical Yeshiva with the grand libraries of Europe.
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