Roundtable: Saving Jewish Cultural Legacy: Libraries & Archives During and After WWII

Date and Time

March 26, 2019
03:00PM - 03:00PM EDT

Location

Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham MA 02453

A roundtable discussion featuring:

 

 

·  David Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary, author of The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

 

·  Lisa Leff, American University & U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, author of The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust

 

·  Dan Rabinowitz, The Seforim Blog, author of The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

 

·  Moderated by Sarah Shoemaker, Associate University Librarian for Archives & Special Collections, Brandeis University

 

Presented by Brandeis Library & The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry.

Reception and book signing to follow.  RSVP required