While Confronting Russia in Europe, the U.S. Helps It in the Middle East
Putin’s arc of steel.
September 14, 2022
The Mystery of a Polish Yeshiva’s Found Jewish Books
What if thousands of texts weren’t burned during the Holocaust?
Soon after its founding in 1930 by Rabbi Meir Shapira, the Lublin yeshiva became one of the largest such institutions in the world. It also contained a massive library of religious texts, which was long thought to have been burned during World War II. But books bearing the library’s stamp periodically surface at auctions and used-book sales. Piotr Nazaruk explores the library’s history, and tries to solve the mystery of its fate:
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The Mystery of a Polish Yeshiva’s Found Jewish Books
What if thousands of texts weren’t burned during the Holocaust?