lost library: the legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna prior to it's destruction during WWII. This book tells the story of the Strashun Library from its inception through the contentious battle for ownership following the war. Pursuant to a settlement in 1958, the remnants of the greatest prewar library in Europe were split between two major institutions: the secular YIVO in the United States and the religious library of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel, a compromise that struck at the heart of the library's original unifying mission.