Language:
German
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (2018) 395-424
Keywords:
Loewe, Heinrich,
;
ha-Sifriyah ha-ʻironit Shaʻar Tsiyon Bet Ariʼelah (Tel Aviv) History
;
Libraries History 20th century
;
Jews, German Intellectual life
Abstract:
This article examines the impact of book donations by German Jews during the 1930s on the Tel Aviv Municipal Library Sha’ar Zion under the direction of Heinrich Loewe. Against the background of Loewe’s elaborate concept of Jewish libraries in Palestine as institutions essential to preserving Jewish identity, intended to serve as places of “collective memory” through the formation of a primarily Jewish collection, this article analyzes how the municipal library was altered by the character of the donations, the donators’ own ideas of collecting, and the perceptions of the library’s function and meaning. The element of “memory” attached to the donations gains an additional centrality and complexity in the historical context of the 1930s.
Note:
With an English abstract.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666370809.395
URL:
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