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A Mortuary of Books - The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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A Mortuary of Books - The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
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The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to
rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946
the American Military Government for Germany established the
Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and
restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival
material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in
German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide
that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts of mass murder. The
depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire-a "mortuary of books," as
the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it-with over
three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different
European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells
the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and
individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted
cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to
their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish
intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz,
Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in
this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish
trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred
hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers
of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these
individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the
importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of
those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and
scholarly life in the postwar world.
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