Conferences:
Cultural Restitution and National Reconstruction: The Jewish Case after WWII, Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 19 March 2014
To read the programme, click here.
Speakers included:
Stefanie Mahrer on '"Much more than just another private collection" -The Rescue of Jewish Books in the '30s';
Ben Barkow on 'From Amsterdam to London: The Journey of the Wiener Library';
Dov Schidorsky on 'Books as Agents of Cultural Memory: Hannah Arendt's Rescuing of Jewish Cultural Goods after the Holocaust';
Dana Herman on 'Heirless Jewish Cultural Property: The American Government's Policy after World War ll';
Elizabeth Gallas on 'Saving the Remnants of Jewish Culture - American and Jewish Restitution Initiatives in Post War Germany';
Gish Amit on 'Common Past, Competing Futures: Redistributing Holocaust Victims' Books';
Anna Kawalko on 'Between Breslau and Wroclaw: Disputing the Saraval Collection after World War ll';
Marcus Kirchhoff on 'Questioning Provenances - Jewish Lost Books in Germany since the 1990s'.
