TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallas,Elisabeth
AU  - Skinner,Alex
TI  - A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust 
T2  - Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
SN  - 9781479833955
AV  - D804.3 .G3535 2019eb
U1  - 305.892/4009045 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Europe
KW  - Repatriation
KW  - Hebrew imprints
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Jewish libraries
KW  - Israel
KW  - United States
KW  - Jewish property
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Jews
KW  - Civilization
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - HISTORY / Holocaust
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adolf Eichmann
KW  - American Jewish Congress
KW  - American Military Government in Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Cecil Roth
KW  - Central Collecting Points
KW  - Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
KW  - Committee on the Restoration of Continental Jewish Museums, Libraries, and Archives
KW  - Eichmann trial
KW  - Frankfurt Agreement
KW  - Frankfurt
KW  - Gegenwartsarbeit
KW  - Gershom Scholem
KW  - Gesamtarchiv
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Hugo Bergman
KW  - Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc
KW  - Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (JCR)
KW  - Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
KW  - Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO)
KW  - Jewish collections
KW  - Jewish identity
KW  - Jewish intellectuals
KW  - Joshua Starr
KW  - Judah Magnes
KW  - Lucy S. Dawidowicz
KW  - Nuremberg
KW  - Offenbach Archival Depot
KW  - Otzrot HaGolah
KW  - Paper Brigade
KW  - Salo W. Baron
KW  - Salo Wittmayer Baron
KW  - Shlomo Shunami
KW  - Vilna
KW  - Wiesbaden Depot
KW  - World Jewish Congress
KW  - World Zionist Organization
KW  - YIVO
KW  - Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO)
KW  - book-restitution operation
KW  - cultural restitution
KW  - diaspora
KW  - displaced persons camps (DP camps)
KW  - heirless cultural property
KW  - historical consciousness
KW  - looting
KW  - memory objects
KW  - post-war Europe
KW  - postwar history
KW  - reconstruction
KW  - reparations
KW  - restitution
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn 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
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