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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Confronting the Present -- 2. Envisioning a Future -- 3. Reconstructing Jewish Culture -- 4. Building the New State -- 5. Taking Action in Dark Times -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Translator

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.

Das Jahrbuch 2019 des Dubnow-Instituts umfasst zwei Schwerpunkte: Der erste widmet sich Jüdinnen und Juden im Nachkriegseuropa und thematisiert akteurszentriert die vielfältigen Herausforderungen, die Holocaustüberlebende beim Aufbau einer neuen Existenz zu bewältigen hatten. Der zweite Schwerpunkt untersucht vor dem Hintergrund des Kalten Krieges, seinem lokalen Nachhall in den Diktaturen Lateinamerikas und des das Zeitgeschehen charakterisierenden Begriffspaars "Lucha y Libertad" (Kampf und Freiheit) die Überlagerung von prospektiver und errungener Freiheit. Der Allgemeine Teil und die Rubriken enthalten Beiträge zur Politik-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte sowie zu literatur-, sprach- und quellenhistorischen Fragen.

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.