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Postscript: The Path of Cinders,er suited to the wide open expanses of the internet. This is not to suggest that a specific study of the cultural uses of book burning in recent decades would be superfluous, given recent examples such as the shelling of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in Au

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Education, Society, and Politics,ntury Isaac Disraeli, for example, was incredulous about a practice which he dismissed as archaic and symptomatic of prejudice: ‘The Romans burnt the books of the Jews, of the Christians, and the Philosophers; the Jews burnt the books of the Christians and the Pagans; and the Christians burnt the bo

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01434-7nd over the next week, similar events were held in university cities across Germany, most of which explicitly followed the model of Berlin by including marching parades, torches and speeches. These fires have since become synonymous with the barbarity of the Nazi regime, but such an understanding wa

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(1870), , (1873), , (1875), , (1877),l group of German-speaking anti-fascists met in Paris in February 1934 to begin planning one of the most unlikely ventures of the decade, the Deutsche Freiheitsbibliothek, which became better known in English as the ‘Library of the Burned Books’. The library is now largely forgotten, but at the time

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(1854), , (1857), , (1861), , (1861),es that book burning was instantly recognized as the emblem of fascism, when in fact, the hackneyed eloquence and official dogma of the Nazi critics and writers had faint international echoes. By exploring the fiction and political rhetoric of the 1930s, this chapter shows that the distaste for book

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