Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books

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Year of Publication
2016
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327 pp.
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The Jewish Publication Society, University of Nebraska Press
City
Philadelphia, PA
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9780827612082
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Account of confiscation of books from Jewish homes, libraries, and synagogues and post-war restitution efforts. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • Loading the Jewish Bookshelf
  • Antisemites and the Jewish Written Word
  • From Bonfires to Bookshelves
  • Talmud Scholars, Hebraists, and Other Nazi Looters
  • Pillage
  • Resistance
  • Rescue
  • Restitution
  • Looted Books in the New Jewish Landscape
  • Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
  • Where Are They Now?