Victor Grossman: HUMBOLDT AND GAZA
HUMBOLDT AND GAZA Berlin Bulletin No. 222 May 4 2024 Victor Grossman, Berlin wechsler_grossman@yahoo.de No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming! It was May 10 th in Germany's terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire. Most authors were German - Jewish, atheist, liberal, leftist, Bertolt Brecht, Anna Seghers, Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld, but also some foreign works were thrown into the flames – Maxim Gorki, Hemingway, Jack London, Dos Passos. Ninety-one years later, this May 3rd, just...