BIBLIOCAUST SURVIVORS

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1 BIBLIOCAUST SURVIVORS - THE FATE OF THE JEWISH BOOK COLLECTIONS IN POLAND AFTER 1945 O N T H E E X A M P L E O F T H E E S R A L I B R A R Y I N C R A C O W Monika Biesaga Institute of Jewish Studies Faculty of History

2 THE ESRA JEWISH PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING ROOM IN CRACOW a joint project of the Association of Progressive Jews, the B'nei B'rith, the Cultural Association Sfas Emes, and the Jewish Religious Community of Cracow c. 6,000 books and periodicals in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and Polish (in 1939)

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4 RESEARCH STRATEGY library catalogues archival documentation antiquarian bookshops online auctions / auction printed catalogues private / bibliophile book collections advertisments/ friends

5 THE JAGIELLONIAN LIBRARY IN CRACOW

6 THE JAGIELLONIAN LIBRARY

7 OFFENBACH ARCHIVAL DEPOT

8 ESTREICHER S DOCUMENTATION Dokumenty rewindykacji polskich dóbr kultury zrabowanych przez Niemców w latach z archiwum Karola Estreichera jr.

9 ESTREICHER S DOCUMENTATION Dokumenty rewindykacji polskich dóbr kultury zrabowanych przez Niemców w latach z archiwum Karola Estreichera jr.

10 ESTREICHER S DOCUMENTATION Dokumenty rewindykacji polskich dóbr kultury zrabowanych przez Niemców w latach z archiwum Karola Estreichera jr.

11 WANDERING BOOKS Offenbach Archival Depot Germany Cracow (Wawel Castle) Warsaw (Central Jewish Library) Warsaw (Jewish Historical Institute)

12 THE JEWISH HISTORICAL INSTITUTE IN WARSAW

13 THE CENTRAL JEWISH LIBRARY

14 THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF CRACOW Social-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland

15 ONLINE AUCTIONS

16 ADVERTISMENTS

17 NATIONAL LIBRARY IN WARSAW Private donation

18 PRIVATE COLLECTION

19 SALOMON LUDWIG STEINHEIM-INSTITUT FÜR DEUTSCH-JÜDISCHE GESCHICHTE AN DER UNIVERSITÄT DUISBURG-ESSEN

20 Cracow PRIVATE COLLECTION

21 LEOPOLD MULLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, OXFORD

22 A WANDERING BOOK Germany?? Israel (Kressel Collection) Cracow (Library of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University) Oxford, UK (Leopold Muller Memorial Library)

23 BOOKS ON DIASPORA Old Synagoge, Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, Cracow, Poland Jewish Religious Community, Cracow, Poland Jagiellonian Library, Cracow, Poland Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland private book collection, Cracow, Poland

24 BOOKS ON DIASPORA Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland National Library, Warsaw, Poland Social-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland, Wrocław, Poland

25 LOOTED CULTURAL ASSETS BOOK STAMP S DATABASE _id/239817

26 PROVENIENZWIKI - PLATTFORM FÜR PROVENIENZFORSCHUNG UND PROVENIENZERSCHLIEßUNG

27 BOOKS ON DIASPORA Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, Germany private book collection, Israel Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the Oxford Univeristy, Oxford, UK*

28 CONCLUSIONS few provenance research projects lack of one central institution to collect pre-war Jewish books remained books dispersed among Jewish and non- Jewish institutions both in Poland and abroad virtual restoration of Jewish libraries as a sign of rememberence of vivid intellectual life of the People of the Books

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