From Prague to Jerusalem: on the status of heirless Jewish cultural property in post-war Europe
TitleFrom Prague to Jerusalem: on the status of heirless Jewish cultural property in post-war Europe
Author
Call numberS940.5318/011
Object number09960ai
Place of publicationIsrael
PublisherMoreshet
Year of publication
2017
Dimensionspp330-361
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal ' Journal for the study of the Holocaust and antisemitism' Vol. 14 2017 pp330-361
Description
Weiss's article traces the planning for the restitution of Jewish property that began in 1943 when the scale of the human destruction and the cultural genocide became clear. Intellectuals and historians in Britain, scholars from the Hebrew University and Jewish intellectuals in the United States assembled to come up with a course of action to secure the restitution of Jewish property