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...Jewish Cultural Reconstruction sent Harvard librarians a 120-page typewritten list of thousands of books and librarians responded by checking off the books they wanted in red pencil...
...bigger coup that year was the donation of a valuable collection of 3,000 Jewish books and manuscripts that were previously owned by a European book collector and had been purchased wholesale after the war by a graduate of the College. The donated collection allowed Metcalf to boast that "the College Library now has one of the outstanding Hebrew collections in the United States...
...comparison, the Holocaust books from Jewish Cultural Reconstruction hardly aroused much interest. In fact, the first time the organization offered some of the books to universities, Harvard library officials lost the paperwork and never replied...
...time, the books were in some demand. According to Jewish Cultural Reconstruction's correspondence with Harvard, the organization thought the books would be in demand and emphasized to potential recipient libraries that it could not guarantee that they would get the books they wanted...
...form letter to Harvard, the group advertised itself as the "trustee and distributing agent of a considerable stock of books of Jewish content, which are under the control of the American authorities in Germany...