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Current Events & Trends | November 2009 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Happy Returns Redux

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It seems returning war booty is a trend. The New York Times ran an article yesterday about a two-volume Bible that vanished from a library in Vienna during Kristallnacht. The sixteenth-century book is now on its way home, 71 years later.

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