Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property
Panels
Panel 1: The State of Provenance Research in State, Public and Private CollectionsChair:
- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Austria, Jewish Museum Vienna)
- Karen Heilig (United States, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) - Holocaust-Era Looted Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property: A World-Wide Overview
- Daniel Dratwa (Belgium, Jewish Museum of Belgium) - Losses of Books and Archives from Public and Private Collections
- Karen Franklin (United States, Museum of Jewish Heritage) - Current State of Judaica Provenance Research in Jewish Museums in the US
- Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Netherlands, International Institute of Social History, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harward University) - Perspectives from Remaining Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR)
Chair:
- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Austria, Jewish Museum Vienna)
- Michal Bušek (Czech Republic, Jewish Museum, Prague) - Restitution in Jewish Museum in Prague in Case of Naftali Zvi Kartagener
- Magda Veselská Prague (Czech Republic, Jewish Museum) - Where Did All the Pretty Old Things Come From?; The Judaica Provenance Research at the Jewish Museum in Prague
Panel 3: Methodological Questions Concerning the Provenance Research of Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property”
Chair:
- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Austria, Jewish Museum Vienna)
- Julie-Marthe Cohen (Netherlands, Jewish Museum Amsterdam) -Researching Judaica Looted in the Netherlands during the Second World War: Methods, Results and Needs
- Inka Bertz (Germany, Jewish Museum Berlin) - Collecting for Jewish Museums Today
- Dario Tedeschi (Italy, Governmental Commission for the recovery of the Jewish Community Library of Rome /looted in 1943/) - Research Findings of Commission for General Spoliation in Italy and Research of the Library in Rome
- Bernhard Purin (Germany, Jewish Museum Munich) - The "In-official" Distribution of Jewish Ritual Objects after WW II
- Dov Schidorsky (Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - The Hebrew University`s Book Salvaging Activities in Postwar Czechoslovakia and the Problems of Restitutions in Israel
- Lucille Roussin (United States, Fashion Institute of Technology/ SUNY) - Fate of the Thousands of Jewish Ritual Objects Stolen from Jewish Families and Institutions Throughout Europe During the Holocaust
- Hila Tene-Gilad (Israel, The Ministry of Justice) A Discussion of Possible Ownership of Judaica from the Holocaust Era
Preparatory meeting
- 5.-6.4 Vienna
