Word: reconstructionism
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By the time I leave Gujarat, the chaotic relief effort has been replaced by some semblance of order. After some prodding by New Delhi, the state administration has snapped out of its stupor, launching a welter of rehabilitation and reconstruction schemes and working with the NGOs. Many volunteer groups are...
Each volume would also have to be marked with a bookplate identifying the book as a gift of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
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.
By July 17, 1950, Harvard library officials had signed off on the conditions for acquiring the books. They could not sell the volumes. Shipping would cost 30 cents a volume. And, if the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction found any of the books' owners, the library would have to give them up...
By July 1951, the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction ended its distribution efforts. The last shipment of books arrived at Harvard in mid-August. The next year, the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction was disbanded.