Neglected witnesses
Subtitle: the fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after
By: edited by Julie-Marthe Cohen, with Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek
Contributors: Institute of Art and Law (Great Britain); Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Publisher: Institute of Art and Law; Jewish Historical Museum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Crickadarn, Nr Builth Wells, United Kingdom; Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781903987216
Subjects: Liturgical objects; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art; Jews; Jewish property; Judaism; Jewish art and symbolism
Other titles: Fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Julie-Marthe Cohen and Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek; title: "A brand plucked out of the fire" : the distribution of heirless Jewish cultural property by Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., 1947-1952  -- Dana Herman; title: Fragments of remembrance : Viennese Judaica collections and more  -- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek; title: The Judaica collection of Frankfurt's Museum Jüdischer Altertümer and its worldwide dispersion after 1945  -- Katharina Rauschenberger; title: Jewish museums in the former Czechoslovakia  -- Magda Veselská; title: The history of Judaica and Judaica collections in Poland before, during and after the Second World War : an overview  -- Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz; title: The Jewish Historical Institute : history of its building and collections  -- Eleonora Bergman; title: Theft and restitution of Judaica in the Netherlands during and after the Second World War  -- Julie-Marthe Cohen; title: Italy's attitude towards Jewish cultural property during and after the Second World War  -- Paola Bertilotti; title: The fate of Judaica in Hungary during the Nazi and Soviet occupations  -- Zsuzsanna Toronyi; title: The Skirball Museum JCR Research Project : records and recollections  -- Grace Cohen Grossman; title: Appendix 1 : Washington conference principles on Nazi-confiscated art --; title: Appendix 2 : Declaration of the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-era looted cultural assets --; title: Appendix 3 : Resolution of the Association of European Jewish museums --; title: Appendix 4 : Holocaust era assets conference, Czech Republic, experts' conclusions --; title: Appendix 5 : Terezin Declaration on Holocaust era assets and related issues.