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8,000 Hebrew and Yiddish Books Stolen by Nazis Are Turned over to Yeshiva University

May 11, 1950
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An invaluable collection of 8,000 Hebrew and Yiddish volumos stolen by Julius Steicher, notorious Nazi Jew-baiter, has been turned over to Yeshiva University by the Jewish Cultural Roonstruotion Agency, it was reported today. The books were stolen by the Nazis from Jews in Europe and North Africa in order to find source material to be converted into Nazi propaganda.

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