The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

by Jonathan Rose (Editor)

Between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe, an act inextricably linked with the murder of 6 million Jews. This volume examines this bleak chapter in the history of printing, reading, censorship, and libraries.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Books About Books, Holocaust, Jewish

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize and the British Council Prize. He is co-editor of Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University and he reviews books for the The Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph.

Reviews

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really do not recommend reading this book unless you are truly interested in the History of the Book and Jewish literature. This is a collection of scholarly articles on various aspects of the treatment of Jewish literary works by the Nazis. The efforts of some persons to save documents of great historical and cultural value, and those that died in the effort. There is an excellent bibliography.