Word: reconstructionism
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In 1949, they turned over the unclaimed works to Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., an organization formed by dozens of Jewish groups including the American Jewish Committee and the World Jewish Congress. The group sought university libraries in the United States to house volumes for which they could find no owners...
By 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.
But at the 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.
The interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like--oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor...
The interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like - oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor...