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

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The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resista...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fishman, David E., 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kaczerginski, Szmerke, > 1908-1954.
Art thefts > Europe.
Jewish libraries > Destruction and pillage > Europe.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > Europe.
Cultural property > Protection > Europe.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Europe.
Cultural property > Protection.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage.
Art thefts.
Vol d'objets d'art > Europe.
Bibliotheques juives > Destruction et pillage > Europe.
Patrimoine culturel > Destruction et pillage > Europe.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Europe.
Europe.
Lithuania > Vilnius.
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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