Hunger for the printed word : books and libraries in the Jewish ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe

Abstract

A narrative of how libraries functioned as an important cultural life line for East European Jews during the years before World War II and beyond. Shavit narrates the stories of Jewish youth and families whose access to secondary education, particularly in Poland, was closed, how libraries became th

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