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Personalized Medicine “It doesn't get more personal than this.†Personalized Medicine “It doesn't get more personal than this.â€
historical collection 20 By Louise Shalev Clockwise from left: Original copies of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer, 1934, 1938 Nazi children’s literature, 1935 The game: “Jews Out!. Go to Palestine!” (Dresden, Germany, 1936) aimed to round up Jews as quickly as possible for deportation The Poisonous Mushroom by Ernst Hiemer with foreword by the Bishop of Durham, London, England, 1938 A Window onto Anti- Marius Bischoff, 20, a volunteer from Cologne, Germany With over 1.5 million documents, TAU’s newly reopened Wiener Collection is one of the world’s I’ve always been interested in Judaism and Israel. I’m fascinated by the diaries from the Lodz Ghetto and the Der Stürmer newspapers in the Collection. They bring me closer to what really happened. largest resources on 20 th century Germany, the Third Reich, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust A documentary filmmaker used it to trace his grandparents’ mysterious links to their past in Germany. A former Israeli Supreme Court Justice used it for her seminal work on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. A young German volunteer used it to connect to his country’s history and Jewish past. The common resource they drew upon was TAU’s Wiener Collection, which reopened to the public after extensive renovations. The continually growing collection comprises some 100,000 books, 1 million indexed clippings, unpublished
Semitism memoirs and testimonies, 40,000 documents on the Nuremberg Trials, multiple editions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and 2,700 original magazines. Established by German-Jewish scholar Dr. Alfred Wiener in 1933 to expose the horrors of German anti-Semitism, the collection was transferred to London in 1939 for safekeeping and served as a major resource for the British Ministry of Information and the Allied tracing the paSt 2012 Issue Documentary film maker Arnon Goldfinger, pictured, a TAU lecturer in film and a TAU graduate, made use of the Wiener Collection for his prize-winning documentary, HaDira (The Flat). The film traces Goldfinger’s efforts to reconstruct his grandparents’ past in Germany from newspapers and documents he found in their apartment after his grandmother’s death. Among the surprising items stuffed in the apartment were issues of the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff (The Attack). “One of the things I was forced to deal with in making the movie was the question of the importance of knowing your family’s past. Undoubtedly the discoveries I made with the help of the materials in the Wiener Collection illuminated the complex path I was following with the exposure of my family’s charged and unclear past,” Governments during WWII. Its materials also played a vital role in the charges of war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. TAU obtained the collection in 1980 with the help of the late TAU donor Fred Lessing, fulfilling Dr. Wiener’s wish to have it housed in Israel. The collection is directed by Tamar Sagi and is part of the Sourasky Central Library, headed by Na’ama Scheftelowitz. TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY REVIEW Above is a selection of just a few of the tools of hatred and incitement that make up the collection. The renovations to the Wiener Library building were partially supported by the Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 by Josephine and Caroline Gruss to provide philanthropic aid to Israel. The building, known commonly as the Wiener Library, has been renamed the Joseph and Caroline Gruss Library of Special Collections. Still shot from The Flat 21
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Semitism<br />
memoirs and testimonies, 40,000 documents<br />
on the Nuremberg Trials, multiple<br />
editions of the Protocols of the Elders<br />
of Zion and 2,700 original magazines.<br />
Established by German-Jewish<br />
scholar Dr. Alfred Wiener in 1933 to<br />
expose the horrors of German anti-Semitism,<br />
the collection was transferred to<br />
London in 1939 for safekeeping and<br />
served as a major resource for the British<br />
Ministry of Information and the Allied<br />
tracing the paSt<br />
2012 Issue<br />
Documentary film maker Arnon Goldfinger,<br />
pictured, a TAU lecturer in film and a TAU<br />
graduate, made use of the Wiener Collection<br />
for his prize-winning documentary, HaDira (The<br />
Flat). The film traces Goldfinger’s efforts to<br />
reconstruct his grandparents’ past in Germany<br />
from newspapers and documents he found in<br />
their apartment after his grandmother’s death. Among the surprising items<br />
stuffed in the apartment were issues of the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff<br />
(The Attack). “One of the things I was forced to deal with in making the<br />
movie was the question of the importance of knowing your family’s past.<br />
Undoubtedly the discoveries I made with the help of the materials in the<br />
Wiener Collection illuminated the complex path I was following with the<br />
exposure of my family’s charged and unclear past,”<br />
Governments during WWII. Its materials<br />
also played a vital role in the charges<br />
of war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.<br />
TAU obtained the collection in 1980<br />
with the help of the late TAU donor Fred<br />
Lessing, fulfilling Dr. Wiener’s wish to<br />
have it housed in Israel.<br />
The collection is directed by Tamar<br />
Sagi and is part of the Sourasky<br />
Central Library, headed by Na’ama<br />
Scheftelowitz.<br />
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY REVIEW<br />
Above is a selection of just a few of<br />
the tools of hatred and incitement that<br />
make up the collection.<br />
The renovations to the Wiener Library<br />
building were partially supported by the<br />
Beracha Foundation, established in 1971<br />
by Josephine and Caroline Gruss to provide<br />
philanthropic aid to Israel. The building,<br />
known commonly as the Wiener Library,<br />
has been renamed the Joseph and Caroline<br />
Gruss Library of Special Collections.<br />
Still shot from<br />
The Flat<br />
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