The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2017
Author
Author: David E. Fishman
Language
English
Number of Pages
322 pp.
Publisher
University Press of New England
City
Lebanon, NH
Region
Europe
Library Type
Private/Personal Library
Religious Libraries
Demographics
Jewish People, non US
Chronological Period
1900-1949
ISBN
9781512600490
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Before the war
  • Shmerke
  • the life of the party
  • The city of the book
  • Under German occupation
  • The first assault
  • Intellectuals in Hell
  • A haven for books and people
  • A rescued gem: the record book of the Vilna Gaon's synagogue
  • Accomplices or saviors?
  • The Nazi, the Bard, and the teacher
  • Ponar for books
  • The paper brigade
  • The art of book smuggling
  • A rescued gem: Herzl's diary
  • The book and the sword
  • Slave-labor curators and scholars
  • From the ghetto to the forest
  • Death in Estonia
  • Miracle from Moscow
  • After the war
  • From under the ground
  • A museum like no other
  • A rescued gem: Sholem Aleichem's letters
  • Struggling under the Soviets
  • Tears in New York
  • The decision to leave
  • The art of book smuggling
  • again
  • Rachela's choice
  • Parting duties
  • A rescued gem: the bust of Tolstoy and other Russians
  • Wanderings: Poland and Prague
  • Paris
  • Return from Offenbach, or Kalmanovitch's prophecy
  • From liquidation to redemption
  • The path to liquidation
  • Later lives
  • Forty years in the wilderness
  • Grains of wheat
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