In 1982, the young literary scholar Rachel Salamander founded the Jewish literature shop in Munich's Maxvorstadt.  "Almost fifty years after the de-Jewification of the German book trade," recalled Dr. Salamander in her acceptance speech for the Cultural Honorary Award of the City of Munich in 1999, "I wanted to help reconstruct at least the intellectual Jewish world by establishing a specialized bookstore for literature on Judaism, to gather together everything that had been preserved by word and writing, and to re-naturalize all those who had been expelled and burned."