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A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History, 17) by Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in Germa
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- Author
- Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner
- Publisher
- New York University Press; NYU Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479833955
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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