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Autore: | Leff Lisa Moses |
Titolo: | The archive thief : the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust / / Lisa Moses Leff |
Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina: | 940.53/1807202 |
Soggetto topico: | Jews - Europe - History - Archival resources |
Jews - France - Strasbourg - Archival resources | |
Archival materials - France - Strasbourg | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 wa |
Titolo autorizzato: | The archive thief |
ISBN: | 0-19-938097-X |
0-19-938096-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797016103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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