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Book burning

Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or…

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Historical background

Burnings by authors

20th century

Books saved from burning

Posthumous destruction of works

Modern biblioclasm

Sikh book burning

Book burnings in popular culture

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Book burning

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Book burning

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related to Book burnings in popular culture · 33
Book burning → After Professor Lidenbrock, Almansor, Arne Saknussem, Axel, Banned Books Week, Berlin's Opernplatz, Book, Bücher, Center, Cervantes, Die Lorelei, Don Quixote, Dort, Earth, Ende Menschen, Fahrenheit, Footloose, German, Heine's, Heinrich Heine
related to Book burnings in Tudor and Stuart England (16th century CE) · 29
Book burning → According, American, Archbishop, Bishop, Bishops' Ban, Canterbury, Catholic, Catholic Church, Church, Crown, David Cressy, Edward VI, England, English Catholics, Henry's, John Marston, King Henry VIII, London, Nine, Protestant
related to External links · 24
Book burning → Bannings, Book, Book Burners, Bosmajian, Burning, Canada, CBC News, Daniel Schwartz, Haig, Hans, Hillerbrand, Ideas, On Book Burnings, Periodical Council, Power, Powerlessness, Reflections, September, The, Updated
related to 21st century · 17
Book burning → Amazon, An, Australia, Benhayon, Booksellers, Chinese, For, Most, Mullumbimby, Nazi Germany, New South Wales, Reported, Serge Benhayon, Students, The, The New York Times, Universal Medicine
related to Comstock book burnings in the United States (1873–1950 CE) · 8
Book burning → All, Anthony Comstock's New York, Comstock Law, Comstock's, Society, Suppression, United States Congress, Vice
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Book burning → deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, theme that in 2023 was linked to the Banned Books Week
related to Modern biblioclasm · 1
Book burning → Although

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Book burningis adeliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials0.90text
Book burningis atheme that in 2023 was linked to the Banned Books Week0.90text
pacifistinstance ofThis library contained copies of titles that were burned by the Nazis in their campaign to cleanse German culture of Jewish and foreign influences0.80text
decadent literatureinstance ofThis library contained copies of titles that were burned by the Nazis in their campaign to cleanse German culture of Jewish and foreign influences0.80text
Thomas Manninstance ofespecially works written by Jewish authors0.80text
Marcel Proustinstance ofespecially works written by Jewish authors0.80text
and Karl Marxinstance ofespecially works written by Jewish authors0.80text
Jorge Amadoinstance ofseveral books by authors0.80text
José Lins do Rego were burned in an anti-communist act.In the People's Republic of China from the 1940s to present dayinstance ofseveral books by authors0.80text
library officials publicize the burning ofinstance ofseveral books by authors0.80text
Book burningrelated to 21st centuryThe0.60section
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