The book smugglers
| Titel: | The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis / David E. Fishman |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, [2017] |
| Umfang: | xv, 322 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781512600490 ; 9781512601268 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Klappentext |
X
- Author's Note
- p. ix
- Dramatis Personae
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Part 1
- Before the War
- 1
- Shmerke-The Life of the Party
- p. 7
- 2
- The City of the Book
- p. 13
- Part 2
- Under German Occupation
- 3
- The First Assault
- p. 25
- 4
- Intellectuals in Hell
- p. 33
- 5
- A Haven for Books and People
- p. 42
- A Rescued Gem: The Record Book of the Vilna Gaon's Synagogue
- p. 52
- 6
- Accomplices or Saviors?
- p. 55
- 7
- The Nazi, the Bard, and the Teacher
- p. 61
- 8
- Ponar for Books
- p. 67
- 9
- The Paper Brigade
- p. 75
- 10
- The Art of Book Smuggling
- p. 82
- A Rescued Gem: Herzl's Diary
- p. 90
- 11
- The Book and the Sword
- p. 94
- 12
- Slave-Labor Curators and Scholars
- p. 102
- 13
- From the Ghetto to the Forest
- p. 111
- 14
- Death in Estonia
- p. 121
- 15
- Miracle from Moscow
- p. 129
- Part 3
- After the War
- 16
- From under the Ground
- p. 137
- 17
- A Museum Like No Other
- p. 145
- A Rescued Gem: Sholem Aleichem's Letters
- p. 153
- 18
- Struggling under the Soviets
- p. 156
- 19
- Tears in New York
- p. 164
- 20
- The Decision to Leave
- p. 171
- 21
- The Art of Book Smuggling-Again
- p. 178
- 22
- Rachela's Choice
- p. 184
- 23
- The German Discovery
- p. 189
- 24
- Parting Duties
- p. 198
- A Rescued Gem: The Bust of Tolstoy and Other Russians
- p. 204
- 25
- Wanderings: Poland and Prague
- p. 207
- 26
- Paris
- p. 213
- 27
- Return from Offenbach, or Kalmanovitch's Prophecy
- p. 221
- Part 4
- From Liquidation to Redemption
- 28
- The Path to Liquidation
- p. 231
- 29
- Later Lives
- p. 238
- 30
- Forty Years in the Wilderness
- p. 244
- 31
- Grains of Wheat
- p. 249
- Acknowledgments
- p. 257
- Notes
- p. 261
- Glossary
- p. 295
- Bibliography
- p. 299
- Index
- p. 311
