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"Much more than just another private collection": the Schocken Library and its rescue from Nazi Germany in 1935
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3356364
Author(s) Mahrer, Stefanie
Author(s) at UniBasel Mahrer, Stefanie
Year 2015
Title "Much more than just another private collection": the Schocken Library and its rescue from Nazi Germany in 1935
Journal Naharaim
Volume 9
Number 1-2
Pages / Article-Number 4-24
Abstract This article reconstructs for the first time the rescue of the Schocken Library, one of the largest privately owned book collections, from Nazi Germany. The library consisted of over 60,000 volumes of rare and precious Hebrew and German books, manuscripts, and incunabula. The books were shipped from Germany to Mandate Palestine in the years 1934-1937 and the library is one of the few collections that completely survived National Socialist destruction and looting. The case of the Schocken library can help us understand all of the many challenges involved in successfully relocating a library of its size. Without a network of professionals, experience dealing with authorities and unlimited funds, an operation like the shipment of the Schocken library would not have been possible. The second part of the paper focuses on how, once the library was in Jerusalem, the way in which it was perceived changed. From the contemporary perspective of the owner, the merchant and publisher Salman Schocken, and from the perspective of its users and visitors, the library was perceived as a place of continuity in exile rather than as a place of saved books. The micro-historical perspective not only allows us to understand how historical subjects interpret the world around them but also how they try to influence historical processes.
Publisher De Gruyter
ISSN/ISBN 1862-9148 ; 1862-9156
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/40569/
Full Text on edoc Available
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1515/naha-2015-0003
ISI-Number WOS:000365872800002
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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