antisemitic persecution context
archival destruction studies
Balkan wartime library losses
banned literature analysis
bibliographic research tools
book history under authoritarianism
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collective memory debates
comparative studies of library destruction
concentration camp reading practices
cultural annihilation research
cultural resilience through
diaspora textual traditions
Eastern European Jewish heritage
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ethics of cultural recovery
European intellectual history
eyewitness cultural documentation
fascist-era propaganda apparatus
genocide-era cultural documentation
ghetto cultural life
global implications of knowledge erasure
historical memory preservation
historical trauma and literature
humanities approaches to destroyed archives
intellectual resistance movements
interdisciplinary genocide studies
library devastation in conflict
occupied-territory cultural losses
philosophical reinterpretations after dictatorship
Polish rare-book preservation
postwar reckoning with cultural crimes
rare book rescue efforts
resistance printing networks
Rome and Salonika community histories
scholarly perspectives on obliterated texts
scholars of Holocaust-era print culture
state-sponsored cultural theft
stolen heritage documentation
studies in endangered textual cultures
survival narratives related to written culture
testimonies from survivors
totalitarian control of knowledge
twentieth-century censorship regimes
underground publishing history
Vilna cultural legacy
wartime literary suppression
Product details
- ISBN 9781558496439
- Weight: 565g
- Dimensions: 161 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2008
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act that was inextricably bound up with the murder of 6 million Jews. By burning and looting libraries and censoring ""un-German"" publications, the Nazis aimed to eradicate all traces of Jewish culture along with the Jewish people themselves.""The Holocaust and the Book"" examines this bleak chapter in the history of printing, reading, censorship, and libraries. The topics include the development of Nazi censorship policies, the celebrated library of the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic communities in Rome and Salonika, the experience of reading in the ghettos and concentration camps, the rescue of Polish incunabula, the uses of fine printing by the Dutch underground, and the suppression of Jewish books and authors in the Soviet Union. Several authors discuss the continuing relevance of Nazi book burnings to the present day, with essays on German responses to Friedrich Nietzsche and the destruction of Bosnian libraries in the 1990s.The collection also includes eyewitness accounts by Holocaust survivors and a translation of Herman Kruk's report on the Vilna ghetto library. An annotated bibliography offers readers a concise guide to research in this growing field.
JONATHAN ROSE is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.
