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Library Rises on Fire’s Ashes

December 23, 1934
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the books, but showed the whole world the black barbarism of the perpetrators. It is essential that the fire be kept before the public until the Berlin auto-da-fe becomes merely an impressive historical memory. That time is not far off. Heartiest greetings to Prof. Albert Einstein. Lion Feuchtwanger.”

“I am happy to join in paying the deepest homage to the great Einstein and to Heinz Liepmann and to protest against the absurd efforts to supress by flame the works of fine free intelligence. Andre Gide.”

BOARD MEMBERS

The following have accepted membership on the advisory board of the American Library of Nazi Banned Books, as it is to be known:

Scholom Asen, Harry Elmer Barnes, Prof. Franz Boas, Prof. Morris R. Cohen, Bernard S. Deutsch, Theodor Dreiser, Dr. Will Jacob Fishman, James W. Gerard, Rev. John Havnes Holmes, Dr. Kallen, Dr. Israel Herbert Levinthal, Louis Lipsky, Ludwig Lewisohn, Dr. Samuel Margoshes. Justice Mitchell May, Rev. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Upton Sinclair. Oswald G#rrison Villard, Miss Alvi# Johnson, Pror. Horace M. Lillian Wald, Peter Wiernik and Dr. Stephen Wise.

NOTED AUTHORS REPRESENTED

Among the authors who will be included in the {SPAN}#brary{/SPAN} are Sholom Asch, Heinrich Heine, Maxim Gorki, Jacob Wassermann, Arthur Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud, Emil Ludwig. Lion Feuchtwanger, Karl Marx, Ludwig Lewisohn, Stefan Zweig, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Mann.

Also Theodore Dreiser, Helen Keller Jack London, Emile Vandervelde Upton Sinclair. Theodor Herzl Franz Werfel, Ernest Hemingway, Josef Stalin, John Dos Passos, Judge Ben Lindsay, Leon Trotzky, Rosa Luxemberg. Maximillian Harden, Walter Hasenclever and Berthold Auerbach.

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