Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Dapim; Studies on the Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,2 (2013) 107-128
Keywords:
Scholem, Gershom,
;
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
;
Jewish National and University Library (Jerusalem)
;
ha-Ṿaʻadah le-hatsalat otsrot ha-Golah (Jerusalem, Israel)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish libraries
;
World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions
Abstract:
The article examines the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jewish-owned books that had been looted by the Nazis. By the end of the Second World War, these books were scattered all across Europe, and within a very short time, they became the focus of bitter conflicts between three official elements – the Jewish organizations in the USA, Britain and Palestine, The American government, and the surviving Jewish communities in Europe. The Jewish possessions created a series of difficulties, diplomatic as well as economical and administrative. But as it soon turned out, first and foremost they created a political problem, deeply rooted in a battle field over the Jewish past, the victims’ memory and the link between the ruin of the European Jewry and the establishment of the State of Israel.
DOI:
10.1080/23256249.2013.825469
URL:
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