Dr. Haim Ben Yakov, Director General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), met with Sallai Meridor, Chairman of the Board of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, and presented a collection of books published by the Congress in recent years.
Sallai Meridor thanked the EAJC for donating these important publications to the library’s collection and emphasized the importance of the library being enriched with publications in various languages, including Russian.
Among the donated publications are important studies on Jewish identity and antisemitism in post-Soviet countries, collections of memoirs about the Siege of Leningrad, a collection of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s feuilletons, a collection of poems by Haim Nahman Bialik, and other books.
The National Library, which relocated to its new building during wartime, continues to function as the primary center for preserving the written heritage of the Jewish people.
The EAJC Director General appeals to Jewish communities to donate books related to Jewish community life for subsequent placement in the National Library.
Donated publications include:
- “Jewish Identity in the Former USSR: Current Status and Challenges” (Prof. Zeev Khanin, Dr. Velvl Chernin)
- “Memory Pages of the Blockade” (2 volumes)
- “Anti-Semitism, Tolerance and Historical Memory in the Post-Soviet Space” (multiple authors)
- “Jews of Azerbaijan and the Mountain Jewish Diaspora” (Prof. Valery Dymshits)
- Reissue of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s feuilletons with foreword by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
- “From Line to Line” (David Markish) – in Hebrew
- “Notes From the Past” (David Markish)
- “Songs and Poems” (Haim Nahman Bialik)
- EAJC Yearbooks for 2019-2024
- “From the Crimean Notebooks” (Dr. Velvl Chernin)
