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Embers plucked from the fire: the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna

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TitleEmbers plucked from the fire: the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna

Author

David E. Fishman

Call number363.310943/0001

Object number05223D

Place of publicationAmherst, Massachusetts, United States

PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press

Year of publication

2000

Physical descriptionpp66-78

MaterialArticle

Series titleStudies in print culture and the history of the book

ISBN1558492534

NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust and the book' edited by Jonathan Rose pp66-78

Description

Discusses the efforts to collect and preserve Jewish historical documents and cultural treasures in Eastern Europe.This began with Simon Dubnov in 1891, broadened into a social movement with the founding of YIVO in 1925 and culminated with the rescue activities by Abraham Sutzkever, Shmerke Kaczerginski and others in Vilna between 1942 and 1946

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