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Embers plucked from the fire: the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Embers plucked from the fire: the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number363.310943/0001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]05223D
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University of Massachusetts Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2000
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp66-78
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Studies in print culture and the history of the book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]1558492534
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust and the book' edited by Jonathan Rose pp66-78
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Discusses the efforts to collect and preserve Jewish historical documents and cultural treasures in Eastern Europe.This began with Simon Dubnov in 1891, broadened into a social movement with the founding of YIVO in 1925 and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
