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020 |a 9781479841677 
020 |z 9781479833955 
035 |a (OCoLC)1203064677 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
041 1 |a eng  |h ger 
100 1 |a Gallas, Elisabeth,  |e author. 
240 1 0 |a Leichenhaus der Bücher.  |l English 
245 1 2 |a A Mortuary of Books :   |b The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust /   |c Elisabeth Gallas ; translated from the German by Alex Skinner. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b New York University Press,  |c [2019] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2021 
264 4 |c ©[2019] 
300 |a 1 online resource:   |b illustrations, maps ; 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish History 
500 |a "Originally published as Das Leichenhaus der Bücher : Kulturrestitution und jüdisches Geschichtsdenken nach 1945, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen, 2013."--Title page verso. 
505 0 |a Confronting the present: the Offenbach Archival Depot -- Envisioning a future: American-Jewish politics of restitution -- Reconstructing Jewish culture: the new map of Jewish life after 1945 -- Building the new state: Israel and the European Jewish cultural heritage -- Taking action in dark times: the commitment of Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, Lucy S. Dawidowicz and Gershom Scholem. 
520 |a "'A Mortuary of Books' explores Jewish culture after the World War II."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a 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. --  |c Publisher's description. 
546 |a Translated from the German. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Restitution  |g Kulturpolitik  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Kulturgut  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Judenvernichtung  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Juden  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Enteignung  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Drittes Reich  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Buch  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Jews  |x Civilization.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00983166 
650 7 |a Jews.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00983135 
650 7 |a Jewish property.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00982902 
650 7 |a Destruction and pillage.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01906941 
650 7 |a Cultural property  |x Repatriation.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00885046 
650 7 |a Cultural property  |x Destruction and pillage.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01910937 
650 7 |a Hebrew imprints.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00954186 
650 7 |a Jewish libraries.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00982831 
650 0 |a Jewish property  |z Europe  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a World War, 1939-1945  |x Destruction and pillage  |z Europe. 
650 0 |a Cultural property  |x Repatriation  |z Europe. 
650 0 |a Cultural property  |x Destruction and pillage  |z Europe. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x Civilization. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
650 0 |a Hebrew imprints  |z Europe. 
650 0 |a Jewish libraries  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Jewish libraries  |z Israel. 
650 0 |a Jewish libraries  |z Europe. 
651 7 |a Israel  |2 gnd 
651 7 |a Europe.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 
651 7 |a Israel.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204236 
651 7 |a United States.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 
610 2 7 |a Hessen  |b Militärregierung  |b Offenbach Archival Depot  |2 gnd 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
700 1 |a Skinner, Alex,  |e translator. 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/76054/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2019 Complete Supplement 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2019 History Supplement 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2019 Jewish Studies Supplement