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Im Zentrum der Studie stehen Jüdinnen und Juden in der Stadt La Chaux-de-Fonds, die sich im 19. Jahrhundert zu einem Zentrum der schweizerischen Uhrenproduktion entwickelte. Der Aufschwung der Stadt ist aufs Engste mit der Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung, die im Laufe des Jahrhunderts in die Neuenburger Hügel migrierten, verbunden. Die Autorin verbindet wirtschafts-, kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Perspektiven mit Fragestellungen der Migrations- und Bürgertums­geschichte. Damit gelingt es ihr, den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und den sozialen Aufstieg der Jüdinnen und Juden nachzuzeichnen. Zunächst als Außenseiter im urbanen Mikrokosmos und im engen beruflichen Netzwerk der Uhrenhersteller, etablierte sich die Gruppe als integraler Teil der Stadt und der Uhrenindustrie. Durch den Wechsel von Innen- und Außenperspektive wird die Lebenswelt der jüdischen Bevölkerung aus vielerlei Aspekten, wie u.a. Migration, Rechtsverhältnisse, Wohn­situation, Berufsleben, religiöser und kultureller Wandel, soziale Inte­gration, berufliche Netzwerke und unternehmerisches Handeln, dar­gestellt.

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.

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.

As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and histories, of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls? The articles in this volume were originally presented at the international conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, which was organised at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at University of Luxembourg in January 2021. The first big international conference of its kind, it brought together more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to discuss how the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies