A special library has been established here, devoted to the aim of “bringing light to the question of the relation of Germany to her Jewish population. ” An official announcement made here today stated that the goal of the library is the gathering of material covering 2, 000 years of Jewish life in Germany, with the help of the Federal Government, State Governments, and private collectors and contributors.
Thus far, 1,500 volumes have been gathered by the library, relating to general Jewish life in this country. A special division of the library is being devoted to the life, contemporaries and works of Moses Mendelssohn, the father of the Haskalah, or Enlightenment movement, among German Jewry. The library will also have material on Nazi atrocities against Jews.
Two of the foremost authors of the younger German generation, Heinrich Boell and Paul Schallueck, initiated the library by issuing a public call for establishment of a collection of “Germania Judaica. ” Financial support has been given to the library by the City of Cologne and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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