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There is only scant remammg physical evidence of the existence of Berlin's former Jewish quarter, once called Scheunenviertel. Its former location in the city's center now places it inside East Berlin. The Nazi years as well as Allied bombing raids reduced the quarter and quasi ghetto to rubble. An occasional book or other artifact, once the property of one of its numerous Eastern European Jewish organizations, may still turn up to testify to the quarter's past life similar to remaining Yiddish and Hebrew inscriptions on the walls of those ruins that, for whatever reason, have been left standing.2 A copy of a book by Mordechai Kaufmann used for this paper, quite by accident, turned out to be one such relic and artifact of the former quarter's past.3 This copy with its moisture-stained pages bears silent witness to an ultimately tragic but remarkable era in the city's history. Its former owner was the library of the mizreklz yidisher shtudentn [sic] jareyn berlin [Eastern Jewish Student Union of Berlin].4 This student organization was one of numerous such organizations that were united under the umbrella of |
