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November 6, 2023

How Books Looted by the Third Reich Made Their Way to Los Angeles

The remnants of Prague’s once-great Jewish library.

So far, American universities haven’t started burning books that students wish to see canceled. The Nazis, who famously burned the books they banned, for their own perverse reasons also sought to preserve them. Diane Mizrachi and Michal Bušek explain that policy, and how it resulted in six books bearing the stamp of a Jewish library in Prague turning up at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) library:

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