Writers at Work

These Will Be My Protagonists

A. B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani, 1983

The City of Gold

Naomi Shemer, “Jerusalem of Gold,” 1967

I, Thou, and Us

The Martin Buber Archive, 1878–1965

A Bohemian in Exile

The Else Lasker-Schüler Archive, 20th century 

A Brand Plucked from the Fire

S. Y. Agnon and Martin Buber, Corpus Hasidicum, early 20th century 

Color Coding the Bible

Solomon Mandelkern’s Bible, late 19th century

Autograph of a Legend

Diwan of Shalom Shabazi, 17th century

The Lover

Sultan Suleiman, Collected Poems of Muhibbi, ca. 1553

In Maimonides’s Own Hand

Maimonides’s Commentary on the Mishnah, 12th century