Source: Prague Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum in Prague has joined an international project called the Library of Lost Books. It invites readers from all over the world to help track down the thousands of books that once belonged to the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, one of the world’s most important Jewish libraries before the Second World War.
The Higher Institute of Jewish Studies or Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentum operated in Berlin since 1872 and housed some 60,000 books on Jewish history, culture and religion, before it was shut down by the Nazis in 1942. Some of the confiscated books were destroyed during the war, but others survived, ending up in various libraries and collections all over the world.
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Authors: Ruth Fraňková, Terezie Jirásková