Farewell My Library!
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 06:09PM
1948 in Arts and Culture, History, Miscellaneous

As part of their attempts at ethnic cleansing, the Israeli Army also tackled sistematic cultural cleansing by looting and destroying book collections of expelled Palestinians during and after 1948. Below is a link to an organisation devoted to produce a movie documenting this despicable act and erasure of collective memory.

The Great Book Robbery (teaser) from Benny Brunner on Vimeo.

http://thegreatbookrobbery.org/

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