The archive thief : the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust / Lisa Moses Leff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leff, Lisa Moses, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--History--Archival resources.

Jews.

Jews--France--Strasbourg--Archival resources.

Archival materials--France--Strasbourg.

Archival materials.

Szajkowski, Zosa, 1911-.

Szajkowski, Zosa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 wa

Contents:

Cover

The Archive Thief

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Szajkowski's Passion

2. A Usable Past

3. A Salvage Operation

4. The Parachutist

5. Partisans of the Exodus

6. The Fact Collector

7. French Losses

8. The Buyers

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-938097-X

0-19-938096-1

OCLC:

907067618