Contested Heritage : Jewish Cultural Property after 1945

Contested Heritage : Jewish Cultural Property after 1945

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Weiss, Yfaat (Editor) Gallas, Elisabeth (Editor) Holzer-Kawalko, Anna (Editor) Jessen, Caroline (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019
Edition:	1. Auflage 2019
Subjects:	Geschichte 1945-2020 Kulturgut Kunstraub Juden Erstattung
Contents/pieces:	17 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Capsules of time, tradition, and memory : salvaging Jewish books after 1945

2. Affirming ownership, obscuring provenance? : Émigré collections in Israel and Germany after 1945

3. A history of adversity : the historical archive of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

4. Saga of a chandelier : a Jewish-English debate of cultural restitution

5. A discipline in a suitcase : the scientific "Nachlass" of Josef Horovitz

6. A safe home for German jewry : Hugo Bergman, "Oẓrot ha-Golah", and his return to Europe

7. Art restitution in the aftermath of World War II : the central collecting point in Munich

8. Aftermath : Salo W. Baron in the postwar Jewish world

9. "What remains?" : Jewish cultural practices of writing and walking in Barbara Honigmann and Gershom Scholem

10. The tricks of memory : Salo W. Baron, Cecil Roth, and the salvaging of Jewish property in Europe

11. Reflections on the loss : objects in the correspondence between former Berliners and their hometown

12. "Bücherfreunde" : German-Jewish émigrés as unintentional guardians of German books

13. Reflections on books as vehicles of cultural transaction : the design work of Moshe Spitzer

14. The dual dynamics of postwar cultural restoration : on the salvage and destruction of the Breslau rabbinical library

15. When YIVO was defined by territory : two perspectives on the restitution of YIVO's collections

16. The uncanny of the Schocken Villa : interior design and objects of exile

17. Eliminating the traces : the postwar fate of the synagogue in Olkusz, Poland