A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust by Elisabeth Gallas synced From a Distant Relation captures

From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style

distinctly Jewish American songcraft began to emerge

A world in which the spirits of the dead were no longer invisible

A first-of-its-kind

With a thriller's narrative control

A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust by Elisabeth Gallas synced From a Distant Relation capturesThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust. In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide