Description |
1 online resource |
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Oxford Series on History and Archives |
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Oxford series on history and archives.
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Winner, 2016 |
Subject |
Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-1978.
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Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-1978 fast |
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Szajkowski, Zosa 1911-1978 gnd |
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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Jews -- Europe -- History -- Archival resources
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Jews -- France -- Strasbourg -- Archival resources
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Archival materials -- France -- Strasbourg
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Theft -- France -- Strasbourg -- History -- 20th century
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Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- France -- Strasbourg -- History -- 20th century
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Jewish historians -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Archival materials
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Jewish historians
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Jews -- Archival resources
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Manuscripts -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
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Theft
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Juden
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Archivalien
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Diebstahl
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Verkauf
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Judar -- historia.
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Arkivmaterial.
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Stöld -- historia.
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Europe
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France -- Strasbourg
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Frankreich
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Straßberg Vogtlandkreis
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Frankrike -- Strasbourg.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199380961 |
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0199380961 |
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