Jewish Property After 1945

Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer
Herausgeber: Labendz, Jacob Ari

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Produktbeschreibung

Questions regarding the ownership of lost, stolen, and abandoned Jewish properties have arisen in post-war years. This volume explores competing claims of ownership and how contests over property both shaped and reflected ideas about Jewish belonging around the world. It was originally published as a special issue of Jewish Culture and Histor

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 395mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780367891619
• ISBN-10: 0367891611
• Artikelnr.: 58441470

Autorenporträt

Jacob Ari Labendz is the Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies and the Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, USA. He writes about the history of Jews in and from Central Europe with a focus on post-war Czechoslovakia, communism, and antisemitism. He also participates in broader discussions on contemporary Jewish politics, Holocaust memory, and nationalism. He holds a PhD in History from Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Jewish property after 1945: cultures and economies of
ownership, loss, recovery, and transfer 1. The amnesia of the
Wirtschaftswunder: Essen's 'House of Industrial Design' 2. Toward a
material culture of Jewish loss 3. Unsettled possession: the question of
ownership of Jewish sites in Poland after the Holocaust from a local
perspective 4. Synagogues for sale: Jewish-State mutuality in the communist
Czech lands, 1945-1970 5. Property Claims of Jews from Arab Countries:
political, monetary, or cultural? 6. Grave connections: Algeria's Jewish
cemeteries as sites of diaspora-homeland contact 7. Reconnecting with a
fugitive collection: a case study of the records of JDC's Warsaw Office,
1945-1949