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The Digital Library of Burned Books [Bibliothek Verbrannte Bücher] is a digitization project taking as point of departure a website on the history of book burnings and the “Library of burned books” conceived at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (MMZ) in 2008. In the project, the existing online content will be comprehensively revised, and a selection from initially 20 books will be digitized and made available to the public both for online-reading as well as to download. In short introductions, the content of the works, their historical context, and the reasons for their classification as a “banned” book are briefly explained. Short biographies of the authors will supplement the publications. The new site will be public to mark the 90th anniversary of the student book burnings in May 2023.

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Digital Library of Burned Books
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Digital Library of Burned Books
Digital Library of Burned Books

The Digital Library of Burned Books [Bibliothek Verbrannte Bücher] is a digitization project taking as point of departure a website on the history of book burnings and the “Library of burned books” conceived at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (MMZ) in 2008. In the project, the existing online content will be comprehensively revised, and a selection from initially 20 books will be digitized and made available to the public both for online-reading as well as to download. In short introductions, the content of the works, their historical context, and the reasons for their classification as a “banned” book are briefly explained. Short biographies of the authors will supplement the publications. The new site will be public to mark the 90th anniversary of the student book burnings in May 2023.

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