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Restitution and Memory : Material Restoration in Europe / ed. by Gotthard Wunberg, Dan Diner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800734890
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18144
LOC classification:
  • D819.E85 R47 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- THE SETTING -- Memory and Restitution: World War II as a Foundational Event in a Uniting Europe -- ANTHROPOLOGIZING RESTITUTION -- Money and Memory: Transvaluating the Redress of Loss -- Pecunifying Respectability? On the Impossibility of Honorable Restitution -- Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement: Refl ecting Cultural Legacies of Indemnity -- COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND THE PRACTICE OF RESTITUTION -- Converting Wrongs to Rights? Compensating Nazi Forced Labor as Paradigm -- Scholarly Investigation and Material Compensation: The Austrian Historical Commission at Work -- TESSELATED EUROPEAN HISTORIES OF MEMORY -- The Object’s Memory: Remembering Rural Jews in Southern Germany -- “These Are German Houses”: Polish Memory Confronting Jedwabne -- Looted Texts: Restituting Jewish Libraries -- Restitution and Reconstructed Identity: Jewish Property and Collective Self-Awareness in Central Europe -- Eloquent Silence: Inscribing Hungarian Memories -- Recovering Austrian Memory: Stratifying Restitution Debates -- Historical Injustices and International Morality: Eastern European and Swiss Cases -- Recollecting Expulsion: Locating German Refugees in Polish and Czech Memories -- Conflicting Memories, Unrestituted: Wadi Salib as an Israeli Political Metaphor -- RESOLUTIONS -- Wiedergutmachung in Germany: Balancing Historical Accounts 1945–2000 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- THE SETTING -- Memory and Restitution: World War II as a Foundational Event in a Uniting Europe -- ANTHROPOLOGIZING RESTITUTION -- Money and Memory: Transvaluating the Redress of Loss -- Pecunifying Respectability? On the Impossibility of Honorable Restitution -- Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement: Refl ecting Cultural Legacies of Indemnity -- COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND THE PRACTICE OF RESTITUTION -- Converting Wrongs to Rights? Compensating Nazi Forced Labor as Paradigm -- Scholarly Investigation and Material Compensation: The Austrian Historical Commission at Work -- TESSELATED EUROPEAN HISTORIES OF MEMORY -- The Object’s Memory: Remembering Rural Jews in Southern Germany -- “These Are German Houses”: Polish Memory Confronting Jedwabne -- Looted Texts: Restituting Jewish Libraries -- Restitution and Reconstructed Identity: Jewish Property and Collective Self-Awareness in Central Europe -- Eloquent Silence: Inscribing Hungarian Memories -- Recovering Austrian Memory: Stratifying Restitution Debates -- Historical Injustices and International Morality: Eastern European and Swiss Cases -- Recollecting Expulsion: Locating German Refugees in Polish and Czech Memories -- Conflicting Memories, Unrestituted: Wadi Salib as an Israeli Political Metaphor -- RESOLUTIONS -- Wiedergutmachung in Germany: Balancing Historical Accounts 1945–2000 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.

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