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Category: 2008-06
2008-06
Writer David Malouf and actor Amanda Muggleton will bring to life the Canadian Government’s gift to the National Library of Australia of a treasure—the earliest surviving document printed in Australia—at a special event on Wednesday 25 June.
2008 is the 75th anniversary of the burning in Berlin by the Nazis on 10 May 1933 of books not to their taste. For those interested in this important event in modern book history check out the following video:
Re Siegfried Scholem mentioned in your ‘Three Postscripts to “The Little Island Books of Leipzig…” ’ article in Biblionews 355/56 for September/December, 2007, pp.175f.: I have discovered that Doctor Steven Scholem in practice at North Ryde is Siegfried’s great grandson. After Siegfried’s death in the 1930s, Dr Scholem’s grandfather and father went to South Africa and Dr Scholem came to Australia with his parents in 1954 when he was 7 years old. Furthermore, Dr Scholem knows Mr Witton and they in fact attend the same Synagogue. The old cliche ‘it’s a small world’ would appear to have some relevance here.