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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'A Mortuary of Books' explores Jewish culture after the World War II."--
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 German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a 'national home for the Jewish people," where Jewish life would be transformed. Did they succeed? The state they made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering. Now, as the country marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, Gordis...
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