The archive thief
Subtitle: the man who salvaged French Jewish history in the wake of the Holocaust
By: Lisa Moses Leff
Series: The Oxford series on history and archives; Oxford series on history and archives
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780199380954
Subjects: Jewish historians; Mutilation, defacement; Jews; Archival materials; Archival resources; Theft; Manuscripts; Biography; History
Description: "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Leff takes us "backstage" at the archives and reveals the powerful ideological, economic, and scientific forces that made Holocaust-era Jewish scholars care more deeply than ever before about preserving the remnants of their past"--Provided by the publisher.
Notes: "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Leff takes us "backstage" at the archives and reveals the powerful ideological, economic, and scientific forces that made Holocaust-era Jewish scholars care more deeply than ever before about preserving the remnants of their past"--Provided by the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Szajkowski's Passon; title: 2. A Usable Past; title: 3. A Salvage Operation; title: 4. The Parachutist; title: 5. Partisans of the Exodus; title: 6. The Fact Collector; title: 7. French Losses; title: 8. The Buyers; title: Epilogue.