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Author Leff, Lisa Moses, author.

Title The archive thief : the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust / Lisa Moses Leff
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Series Oxford Series on History and Archives
Oxford series on history and archives.
Contents Cover; The Archive Thief; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Szajkowski's Passion; 2. A Usable Past; 3. A Salvage Operation; 4. The Parachutist; 5. Partisans of the Exodus; 6. The Fact Collector; 7. French Losses; 8. The Buyers; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
Notes "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Leff takes us "backstage" at the archives and reveals the powerful ideological, economic, and scientific forces that made Holocaust-era Jewish scholars care more deeply than ever before about preserving the remnants of their past"--Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Winner, 2016
Subject Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-1978.
SUBJECT Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-1978 fast
Szajkowski, Zosa 1911-1978 gnd
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Jews -- Europe -- History -- Archival resources
Jews -- France -- Strasbourg -- Archival resources
Archival materials -- France -- Strasbourg
Theft -- France -- Strasbourg -- History -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- France -- Strasbourg -- History -- 20th century
Jewish historians -- Biography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Archival materials
Jewish historians
Jews -- Archival resources
Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Theft
Juden
Archivalien
Diebstahl
Verkauf
Judar -- historia.
Arkivmaterial.
Stöld -- historia.
Europe
France -- Strasbourg
Frankreich
Straßberg Vogtlandkreis
Frankrike -- Strasbourg.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199380961
0199380961