LEADER 04436nam 2200649 450 001 9910460607303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8276-1278-8 010 $a0-8276-1276-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000538048 035 $a(EBL)4228749 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001592212 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16289114 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001592212 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12949636 035 $a(PQKB)10763768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4228749 035 $a(OCoLC)932626630 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46623 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4228749 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137131 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL881197 035 $a(OCoLC)935254175 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000538048 100 $a20160114h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStolen words $ethe Nazi plunder of Jewish books /$fMark Glickman ; designed by Rachel Gould 210 1$aPhiladelphia, [Pennsylvania] :$cThe Jewish Publication Society,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $a"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"-Title page verso. 311 $a0-8276-1208-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; 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 330 $a"How the largest Jewish book collection in the world--four to five million volumes--was looted by the Nazis and recovered by the Allied Forces"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world--tens-of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections, and stole from Jewish individuals, schools, and synagogues. Early in their regime, the Nazis burned some books in spectacular bonfires, but most they saved, stashing the literary loot in castles, abandoned mine shafts, and warehouses throughout Europe. It was the largest and most extensive book-looting campaign in history. After the war, Allied forces discovered these troves of stolen books but quickly found themselves facing a barrage of questions. How could the books be identified? Where should they go? Who had the authority to make such decisions? Eventually, the army turned the books over to an organization of leading Jewish scholars called Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.--whose chairman was the acclaimed historian Salo Baron, and whose on-the-ground director was the philosopher Hannah Arendt--with the charge to establish restitution protocols. Stolen Words is the story of how a free civilization decides what to do with the material remains of a world torn asunder, and how those remains connect survivors with their past. It is the story of Jews struggling to understand the new realities of their post-Holocaust world and of Western society's gradual realization of the magnitude of devastation wrought by World War II. sMost of all, it is the story of people --of Nazi leaders, ideologues, and Judaica experts; of Allied soldiers, scholars, and scoundrels; and of Jewish communities, librarians, and readers around the world"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJewish libraries$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLibraries$xDestruction and pillage$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLibraries and national socialism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish libraries$xHistory 615 0$aLibraries$xDestruction and pillage$xHistory 615 0$aLibraries and national socialism. 676 $a027.04 700 $aGlickman$b Mark$f1963-$01050973 702 $aGould$b Rachel 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460607303321 996 $aStolen words$92481174 997 $aUNINA