The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman textbook-shipeasy triumphal government—through pretense and self-deception

triumphal government—through pretense and self-deception

but captivation with Davidic lineage was just one facet of a much broader Jewish concern with biblical ancestry

“It was a Jewish porno film … one minute of sex and nine minutes of guilt

Translated by Michoel Rotenfeld

and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources and collections

The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman textbook-shipeasy triumphal government—through pretense and self-deceptionThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscriptsfirst from the Nazis and then from the Sovietsby hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotionincluding the readiness to risk ones lifeto literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on