02384nam 2200577 450 991082658810332120230807214417.00-19-938097-X0-19-938096-1(CKB)3710000000393391(EBL)2033570(SSID)ssj0001460490(PQKBManifestationID)12593804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460490(PQKBWorkID)11465981(PQKB)10502924(MiAaPQ)EBC2033570(Au-PeEL)EBL2033570(CaPaEBR)ebr11041597(CaONFJC)MIL779835(OCoLC)907067618(EXLCZ)99371000000039339120150416h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe archive thief the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust /Lisa Moses LeffNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-938095-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist. In the late 1930s, as he saw the threats to Jewish safety rising in Europe, he broke with the party and committed himself to defending his people in a new waJewsEuropeHistoryArchival resourcesJewsFranceStrasbourgArchival resourcesArchival materialsFranceStrasbourgJewsHistoryArchival resources.JewsArchival resources.Archival materials940.53/1807202Leff Lisa Moses1670477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826588103321The archive thief4032359UNINA