Shai Secunda on Israel’s National Library
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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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