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Title Neglected witnesses : the fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after / edited by Julie-Marthe Cohen ; with Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek ; authors, Eleonora Bergman [and nine others]
Published Builth Wells, Great Britain : Institute of Art and Law ; Amsterdam : Jewish Historical Museum, 2011
[Builth Wells], Wales Institute Of Art and Law, [2011]

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Description 400 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Contents Contents note continued: The Fate of Judaica in Hungary During the Nazi and Soviet Occupations / Zsuzsanna Toronyi -- The Skirball Museum JCR Research Project: Records and Recollections / Grace Cohen Grossman -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1 Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art -- Appendix 2 Declaration of the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets -- Appendix 3 Resolution of the Association of European Jewish Museums -- Appendix 4 Holocaust Era Assets Conference, Czech Republic, Experts' Conclusions -- Appendix 5 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues
Machine generated contents note: ̀A Brand Plucked Out of the Fire': The Distribution of Heirless Jewish Cultural Property by Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., 1947-1952 / Dana Herman -- Fragments of Remembrance: Viennese Judaica Collections and More / Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek -- The Judaica Collection of Frankfurt's Museum Judischer Altertumer and Its Worldwide Dispersion After 1945 / Katharina Rauschenberger -- Jewish Museums in the Former Czechoslovakia / Magda Veselska -- The History of Judaica and Judaica Collections in Poland Before, During and After the Second World War: An Overview / Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz -- The Jewish Historical Institute: History of Its Building and Collections / Eleonora Bergman -- Theft and Restitution of Judaica in the Netherlands During and After the Second World War / Julie-Marthe Cohen -- Italy's Attitude Towards Jewish Cultural Property During and After the Second World War / Paola Bertilotti --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ceremonial objects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Cultural property -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Jewish art and symbolism.
Jewish literature -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish property -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Jewish property -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Judaism -- Liturgical objects -- Europe.
Judaism -- Liturgical objects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Judaism -- Liturgical objects -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Theft from museums -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews.
Author Bergman, Eleonora, contributor
Cohen, Julie-Marthe, editor
Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas, editor
Institute of Art and Law (Great Britain)
Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
LC no. 2012453389
ISBN 9781903987216 (paperback)
Other Titles Fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after