The Holocaust and the book

destruction and preservation

Between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe. Examination of this dark chapter in the history of printing, reading, censorship and libraries. Topics include the development of Nazi censorship policies, the celebrated library of the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic communities in Rome and Salonika, the experience of reading in the ghettos and concentration camps, the rescue of Polish incunabula, the...

Engels | 314 pagina's | University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst | 2001

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