Contested Heritage
Jewish Cultural Property after 1945
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.
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- Elisabeth Gallas (Hg.)
- Dr. Elisabeth Gallas ist leitende wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow.
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- Anna Holzer-Kawalko (Hg.)
- Anna Holzer-Kawałko ist Doktorandin an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem.
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- Caroline Jessen (Hg.)
- Dr. Caroline Jessen ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach.
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- Yfaat Weiss (Hg.)
- Dr. Yfaat Weiss ist Professorin für Jüdische Geschichte an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem, Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow und Professorin für Neuere Geschichte, insbesondere jüdische Geschichte, an der Universität Leipzig.
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- Angela Schwarz (Hg.),
- Daniela Mysliwietz-Fleiß (Hg.),
- Angela Schwarz (Hg.)
- Katja Sturm-Schnabl (Hg.),
- Bojan-Ilija Schnabl (Hg.)
- Beate Binder (Hg.),
- Cornelius Borck (Hg.),
- Volker Hess (Hg.)
- Gerhard Botz (Hg.),
- Siegfried Mattl (Hg.),
- Helmut Konrad (Hg.),
- Eva Brücker (Hg.)
- Kurt Appel (Hg.),
- Isabella Guanzini (Hg.),
- Christian Danz (Hg.),
- Hans Gerald Hödl (Hg.),
- Rudolf Langthaler (Hg.),
- Rüdiger Lohlker (Hg.),
- Sigrid Müller (Hg.),
- Richard Potz (Hg.),
- Sieglinde Rosenberger (Hg.),
- Hans Schelkshorn (Hg.),
- Lukas Pokorny (Hg.),
- Jakob Helmut Deibl (Hg.)
- Werner Telesko (Hg.),
- Sandra Hertel (Hg.),
- Stefanie Linsboth (Hg.)

- Robert W. Rix (Hg.),
- Lis Møller (Hg.),
- Karina Lykke Grand (Hg.),
- Anna Sandberg (Hg.),
- Cian Duffy (Hg.),
- Elisabeth Oxfeldt (Hg.),
- Thor Mednick (Hg.),
- Ilona Pikkanen (Hg.)