Contested Heritage: Jewish Cultural Property after 1945

Abstract: 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 loc

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783666310836
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, 221 S.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Geschichte Europas

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (wann): 2020
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Göttingen
• (wer): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• (wann): 2020
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Gallas, Elisabeth ; Holzer-Kawalko, Anna ; Jessen, Caroline ; Ṿais, Yifʿat ; Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow (DI)

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.13109/978366631083
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-79681-5
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:51 MEZ