Overview
- Summary
- For forty years, book by book, one librarian saved our nation. This is her story. Books were the one constant in a life full of trauma and turmoil, and Ruth Rappaport always turned to them for reassurance, renewal, and solace when she had no one and nothing else ... Above all, this book is a tribute to a teenage girl who understood the power of forbidden books: that by reading them she would find a way to liberate herself. She devoted the rest of her long life to liberating them for the readers of the world. That includes you.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Little A, [2019]
- Locale
- Palestine
Leipzig (Germany) - Edition
- First edition
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-371) and index.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781503904156
1503904156 - Physical Description
- xv, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Librarians--Biography. Books and reading--History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Palestine--History--20th century. Zionism--Palestine--History. Leipzig (Germany) Jews. Librarians. Libraries. Military libraries. Biographies. Rappaport, Ruth,--1923-2010. Library of Congress.--Subject Cataloging Division.
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- 2019-05-20 16:20:00
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