Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire: The German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as Agents of Cultural Memory
Von Merveldt, Nikola
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Title
Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire: The German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as Agents of Cultural Memory
Author(s)
Von Merveldt, Nikola
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
Libraries and society
World War II
Book banning
Abstract
This article looks at two libraries founded in 1934 as counter-symbols
to the Nazi book burning: the German Freedom Library in Paris
and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books at the Brooklyn
Jewish Center in New York. It describes these two libraries as agents
of cultural memory, as privileged sites for redefining German, German-
Jewish, and Jewish-American cultural identity in times of radical
change. Created on different continents and in different social,
cultural, and political contexts, they reflect the dynamics of cultural
memory from 1933 through World War II and the Cold War era to
the present day.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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