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Lisa Moses Leff

The Archive Thief

The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust

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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York.In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist. In the late 1930s, as he saw the threats to Jewish safety rising in Europe, he broke with the party and committed himself to defending his people in a new way, as a scholar associated with the YIVO Institute… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-938097-8
  • EAN: 9780199380978
  • Produktnummer: 18392165
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'316 KB
  • Abbildungen: 12 illustrations

Über den Autor


Lisa Moses Leff is a Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France.

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