1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460607303321

Autore

Glickman Mark <1963->

Titolo

Stolen words : the Nazi plunder of Jewish books / / Mark Glickman ; designed by Rachel Gould

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : The Jewish Publication Society, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8276-1278-8

0-8276-1276-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

027.04

Soggetti

Jewish libraries - Europe - History - 20th century

Libraries - Destruction and pillage - Europe - History - 20th century

Libraries and national socialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"-Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Loading the Jewish Bookshelf; 2. Antisemites and the Jewish Written Word; 3. From Bonfires to Bookshelves; 4. Talmud Scholars, Hebraists, and Other Nazi Looters; 5. Pillage; 6. Resistance; 7. Rescue; 8. Restitution; 9. Looted Books in the New Jewish Landscape; 10. Jewish Cultural Reconstruction; 11. Where Are They Now?; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"How the largest Jewish book collection in the world--four to five million volumes--was looted by the Nazis and recovered by the Allied Forces"--

"Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world--tens-of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections, and stole from Jewish individuals, schools, and synagogues. Early in their regime, the Nazis burned some books in spectacular bonfires, but most they saved, stashing the literary loot in



castles, abandoned mine shafts, and warehouses throughout Europe. It was the largest and most extensive book-looting campaign in history. After the war, Allied forces discovered these troves of stolen books but quickly found themselves facing a barrage of questions. How could the books be identified? Where should they go? Who had the authority to make such decisions? Eventually, the army turned the books over to an organization of leading Jewish scholars called Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.--whose chairman was the acclaimed historian Salo Baron, and whose on-the-ground director was the philosopher Hannah Arendt--with the charge to establish restitution protocols. Stolen Words is the story of how a free civilization decides what to do with the material remains of a world torn asunder, and how those remains connect survivors with their past. It is the story of Jews struggling to understand the new realities of their post-Holocaust world and of Western society's gradual realization of the magnitude of devastation wrought by World War II. sMost of all, it is the story of people --of Nazi leaders, ideologues, and Judaica experts; of Allied soldiers, scholars, and scoundrels; and of Jewish communities, librarians, and readers around the world"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702353003321

Autore

Hung Ching-cheh

Titolo

Optical and scanning electron microscopy of the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) spacecraft silicone experiment [[electronic resource] /] / Ching-cheh Hung and Kim K. de Groh, Bruce A. Banks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2012-217678

Altri autori (Persone)

De GrohKim K

BanksBruce A

Soggetti

Low Earth orbits

Carbon dioxide

Silicones

Degradation

Image analysis

Silicon dioxide

Spaceborne experiments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 10, 2012).

"August 2012."

"Prepared for the 10th International Space Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From the Space Environment (ICPMSE-10J) cosponsored by ITL, MDA, CSA, JAXA, Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering, and the Society for Promotion of Space Science, Bankoku-Shinryokan, Okinawa, Japan, June 12-17, 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-10).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708250903321

Titolo

Legislative hearing on H.R. 2346, Secret Ballot Protection Act, and H.R. 2347, Representation Fairness Restoration Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 26, 2013

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 49 pages)

Soggetti

Labor unions - Elections - Law and legislation - United States

Labor unions - Recognition - Elections - Law and legislation - United States

Secret ballot - United States

Employee rights - United States

Labor unions - Organizing - United States

Employee rights

Labor unions - Elections - Law and legislation

Labor unions - Organizing

Labor unions - Recognition - Elections - Law and legislation

Secret ballot

Legislative hearings.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 8, 2014).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office.

"Serial no. 113-24."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.