Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Libraries & Culture; a Journal of Library History
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,3 (1999) 241-253
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Libraries
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Archives
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
A paper first presented at an international conference, "The Holocaust and the Book, " held at Drew University (Madison, NJ), November 1996. A burning of Jewish books in Italy took place even before the German occupation - in Turin in 1938. With the German occupation of Rome, in September 1943, representatives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg appeared at the synagogue looking for Jewish works of art and books. The great book and manuscript collection, some of the items dating from before the Common Era, was plundered and consigned to Frankfurt, to the Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. In December 1943, the book collection of the Collegio Rabbinico in Rome was also plundered. Many of the books were returned after the war, but some were lost forever.
Note:
Appeared also in "The Holocaust and the Book" (2001).
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