PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania 26 August 2018
Israeli Missions Around The World MFA Press Room 2018 PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania 26 August 2018

PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania

  • 8/26/2018
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    The Netanyahus were shown antique books from libraries throughout Lithuania before the Holocaust, including a commentary on the Book of Psalms from 1512, writings by the heads of Jewish academies, children's books and textbooks in Yiddish and more.
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    PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania Copyright: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom
     
     
    ​(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
     
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, today (Sunday, 26 August 2018), visited the Jewish Books Division of the National Library of Lithuania where the curator of the division, Dr. Lara Lempertiene, told them about its books and writings.
     
    The Netanyahus were shown antique books from libraries throughout Lithuania before the Holocaust, including a commentary on the Book of Psalms from 1512 and writings by the heads of Jewish academies (yeshivot) in Lithuania, children's books and textbooks in Yiddish from the Lithuanian education system from before World War II and the writings of Zeev Jabotinsky, Chaim Nachman Bialik and Saul Tchernichovsky among others.
     
    Prime Minister Netanyahu:
     
    "We are at the Lithuanian National Library. There is a treasure here from 'Jerusalem of Lithuania' beginning with books from the Gaon of Vilna and commentaries on the Book of Psalms through the letters of Bialik.
     
    I am very moved to see here a postcard from Tchernichovsky. My father edited Tchernichovsky and Tchernichovsky recommended my father to Alexander Aaronsohn. Bialik was in the same academy (yeshiva), with my grandfather, in Volozhyn.
     
    There is an immense treasure here. Here you see how the Jews lived. There are Hebrew textbooks from 1937, a Shachar notebook; what excellent Hebrew.
     
    What a rich world this was; what has been lost!"