Dispossessed : personal stories of Nazi-looted Jewish cultural property and post-war restitution /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Beroofd. English.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Rijksmuseum : Joods Cultureel Kwartier, [2024] ©2024
Description:	351 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war -- Exhibitions. World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Exhibitions. Art thefts -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Jewish property -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Lost works of art -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art thefts -- Netherlands -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Lost works of art -- Netherlands -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13502662

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Other authors / contributors:	Cohen, Julie-Marthe, editor. Lagerweij, Mara, editor. Bouvier, Pierre (Translator), translator. Hedley-Prôle, Jane, translator. McKay, David, 1973- translator. Kist&Killian, translator. Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), host institution. Nationaal Holocaust Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), host institution.
ISBN:	9789462088580 9462088586
Notes:	Exhibition: Amsterdam, Joods Museum, Nationaal Holocaustmuseum, 2024/05/31-2024/10/27. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"How does it feel to have everything taken from you? Not only your rights, freedom and dignity, but your belongings as well? Dispossessed examines the history of the looting of art and Jewish books and ritual objects under the Nazi regime in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Eight personal stories make palpable the emotional impact of the theft of Jewish cultural property as part of a process of dehumanization. For objects are more than material things. They reflect someone's identity and have emotional meaning. This book is also about the battle that survivors and descendants of murdered Jews have had to wage in order to recover their possessions. Their stories make clear that the restitution of Jewish cultural property is a form of legal redress that is still relevant today."--
Standard no.:	https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301332963

Table of Contents:

Foreword
From cold bureaucracy to empathy and reasonableness
Looting and restitution in Dutch policy
Dispossessed
Eight personal stories of Nazi-looted Jewish cultural property and post-war restitution
Rescue and loss
The Judaica collector Leo Isaac Lessmann
The motives of a Jewish collector
Works acquired in the 1930s by Fritz Mannheimer
'Too beautiful to last'
The lost art of the Heppner-Krämer family
'From that moment on, the meeting place of Jewish students'
The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana and Louis Hirschel
'Torn and trampled'
The looted studio of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
'A passion for Jewish literature'
The antiquarian bookshop of Louis Lamm
'Nicht Wiedersehen!'
The struggle of Dési Goudstikker
'This was our Kandinsky'
The legacy of Margarete Stern-Lippmann
Memory and continuity
Jewish Cultural Reconstruction and the rescue of Jewish cultural assets after the Second World War
Backmatter
Timeline
List of illustrations
Bibliography
Index

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