A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the HolocaustElisabeth Gallas
Elisabeth Gallas’s first monograph explores how the cultural genocide Nazi Germany perpetrated against European Jews was followed, almost immediately, by innovative Jewish efforts to come to terms with this unprecedented rupture in civilization. More concretely, A Mortuary of Books, originally relea...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-331 |
| Review of: | A mortuary of books (New York : New York University Press, 2019) (Laczó, Ferenc)
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Book review
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| Summary: | Elisabeth Gallas’s first monograph explores how the cultural genocide Nazi Germany perpetrated against European Jews was followed, almost immediately, by innovative Jewish efforts to come to terms with this unprecedented rupture in civilization. More concretely, A Mortuary of Books, originally released in German in 2013 and slightly updated for this new English edition, offers a wide-ranging history of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (JCR), which tried to reverse, as much as was possible, the systematic looting of Jewish books, documents, and artwork, and whose ambitions soon yielded a novel concept of restitution. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa034 |