Title | Schicksale und ihre Bücher: Deutsch-Jüdische Privatbibliotheken Zwischen Jerusalem, Tunis und Los Angeles |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2023 |
Authors | Schneidawind, Julia |
Number of Pages | 308 pp. |
Publisher | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
City | Göttingen, Germany |
Language | German |
ISBN | 9783525500316 |
Abstract | Julia Schneidawind reconstructs the history of the transmission of German-Jewish private libraries. While an incalculable amount of Jewish book holdings were irretrievably destroyed by theft, persecution and war after 1933, a few collections have survived scattered around the world. For example, the collection of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is now in Tunisia; the library of Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948) is between Jerusalem and Germany; the collection of Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) is in Nuremberg; the books of the writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) are between Salzburg, London and Petrópolis in Brazil; and the library of Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) is in Los Angeles. Following the traces of the collections from their context of origin to their current storage locations opens up important insights with regard to the question of the translocation of material culture, but also the impact of German-Jewish book heritage today in different spaces and contexts. Julia Schneidawind is not limited to a single collection, but can also show the geographical breadth of the tradition and the diversity of the transmission paths of the private libraries through exemplary comparison. The discrepancy with regard to the perception that the collections in their various storage locations are today as German-Jewish book heritage is also expressed in the synoptic presentation. Schneidawind has also carried out an on-site inventory of the Franz Rosenzweig collections in Tunis for the first time and reconstructed the history of the library's transmission using source material. The author has also examined Jakob Wassermann's library for the first time in terms of content and with regard to the history of reception. |
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