The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Dan Rabinowitz Yiddish Learning down dimly lit stairwells

down dimly lit stairwells

Scott Simon (Narrator

” —The Sunday Oregonian

Investigators descended on the scene

The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Dan Rabinowitz Yiddish Learning down dimly lit stairwellsThe Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed his extensive personal library of 5,753 volumes to the Vilna Jewish community on his death in 1885, with instructions that it remain open to all. In the summer of 1941, the Nazis came to Vilna, plundered