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Podcast: New Books in Library Science
Episode: Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
Description: āThe library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.āā Susan Orlean,Ā The Library Book.Benjamin BalintĀ andĀ Merav Mack'sĀ Jerusalem: City of the BookĀ (Yale University Press, 2019) is a fascinating journey through Jerusalemās libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the worldās most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct scho...