Stefan Litt, PhD (2001) in Pre-Modern History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, habilitation, Graz University (2008), researched and taught at the universities of Erfurt, Düsseldorf, Graz (Austria), Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan, Ramat Gan (Israel). He has published on the history of early modern European Jewry and on Jewish archives and book culture. Since 2010 he has worked as an archivist at the National Library of Israel, responsible for the foreign language holdings. Since 2018, Litt has been the Humanities curator of the NLI. In 2014 he was awarded with the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg prize of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt a.M.