National Library of Israel

The National Library of Israel preserves the documentary heritage of Jewish communities in Israel and around the world. In January 2024 it announced the transfer of the Nahum Collection, which it describes as the world's largest collection of Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts. The Library breaks the approximately 60,000 items into about 45,000 manuscripts and legible fragments plus roughly 15,000 additional fragments recovered from book covers or genizot. The collection preserves religious texts, documentary material and the written culture of Yemenite Jewry on an exceptional scale, making preservation, cataloguing and scholarly access central to the significance of the record. The National Library of Israel is the custodian of the Nahum Collection, described by the Library as the world's largest collection of Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts: about 60,000 manuscripts and fragments transferred to the Library in 2024.