Lost Jewish Texts Show Up in New York

As the Nazi’s power grew in the early 1930s, a Jewish librarian living in Frankfurt published a catalogue of of 15,000 books he’d collected.

When the war hit, large portions of the collections disappeared, a frighteningly common occurrence with Jewish literature and writing in Germany just before and during World War II. Yet somehow many of these books made their way to America, to the shelves of the Leo Baeck Institute where they were recently re-discovered.

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