Lisa Leff es una historiadora de Europa cuya investigación se centra en los judíos de Francia desde 1789. Su trabajo examina el auge de la ayuda internacional judía en la Francia del siglo XIX y narra la historia de un individuo que trasladó decenas de miles de documentos de Francia a EE. UU. durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Leff aborda cuestiones más amplias sobre el nacionalismo judío, los archivos judíos y la escritura de la historia judía en la era del Holocausto y sus secuelas. Su obra ofrece una perspectiva única sobre temas históricos cruciales, resaltando la importancia duradera de la preservación de registros históricos.
How might we best negotiate the world's scarce pool of natural resources? This book advocates a management regime that is both politically, as well as environmentally, sustainable, and shows how such management might work to protect our common heritage and secure the benefits we can expect from scarce resources - our natural dividend.
"In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Leff takes us "backstage" at the archives and reveals the powerful ideological, economic, and scientific forces that made Holocaust-era Jewish scholars care more deeply than ever before about preserving the remnants of their past"--Provided by the publisher.