A Mortuary of Books : The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust /

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"'A Mortuary of Books' explores Jewish culture after the World War II."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gallas, Elisabeth (Autor)
Otros Autores: Skinner, Alex (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hessen > Militärregierung > Offenbach Archival Depot
Restitution > Kulturpolitik
Kulturgut
Judenvernichtung
Juden
Enteignung
Drittes Reich
Buch
Jews > Civilization.
Jews.
Jewish property.
Destruction and pillage.
Cultural property > Repatriation.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage.
Hebrew imprints.
Jewish libraries.
Jewish property > Europe > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Europe.
Cultural property > Repatriation > Europe.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > Europe.
Jews > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Hebrew imprints > Europe.
Jewish libraries > United States.
Jewish libraries > Israel.
Jewish libraries > Europe.
Israel
Europe.
Israel.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"'A Mortuary of Books' explores Jewish culture after the World War II."--
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. --
Notas:"Originally published as Das Leichenhaus der Bücher : Kulturrestitution und jüdisches Geschichtsdenken nach 1945, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen, 2013."--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9781479841677

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