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Author Jessen, Caroline author, editor

Title Contested Heritage Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 / Caroline Jessen, Enrico Lucca, Elisabeth Gallas, Yehuda Dvorkin, Adi Livny, Joachim Schlör, Iris Lauterbach, Bilha Shilo, Yfaat Weiss, Gil Rubin, Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan, Ada Wardi, Stefanie Mahrer, Anna Holzer-Kawałko, Anna Holzer-Kawalko, Amit Levy, Yechiel Weizmann, Lina Barouch
Edition 1 ed
Published [s.l.] : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019

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Summary In the wake of the Nazi regime's policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private and public collections in Germany as well as abroad with an unclear or disputed provenance. Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 illuminates the political and cultural implications of Jewish cultural property looted and displaced during the Holocaust. The volume includes seventeen essays, accompanied by newly discovered archival material and illustrations, which address a wide range of topics: from the shifting meaning and character of the objects themselves, the so-called object biographies, their restitution processes after 1945, conflicting ideas about their appropriate location, political interests in their preservation, actors and networks involved in salvage operations, to questions of intellectual and cultural transfer processes revolving around the moving objects and their literary resonances. Thus, it offers a fascinating insight into lesser-known dimensions of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the history of Jews in postwar Europe
Analysis Social Science
Jewish Studies
Subject Social sciences.
Social Sciences
social sciences.
Social Science / Jewish Studies.
Social sciences
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Barouch, Lina author
Dvorkin, Yehuda author
Gallas, Elisabeth author, editor
Holzer-Kawałko, Anna author
Holzer-Kawalko, Anna editor
Lauterbach, Iris author
Levy, Amit author
Livny, Adi author
Lucca, Enrico author
Mahrer, Stefanie author
Rubin, Gil author
Schlör, Joachim author
Shilo, Bilha author
Shiloh-Dayan, Yonatan author
Wardi, Ada author
Weiss, Yfaat author, editor
Weizmann, Yechiel author
ISBN 9783666310836
3666310834