To conclude the exhibition "Looting and Restitution. Jewish Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present," the Jewish Museum Berlin is organizing an international conference on the variations from country to country in the legal and political requirements for the restitution of cultural artifacts. The conferences focuses on the handling of looted Jewish cultural artifacts in the early postwar years. The conference will be held in English.
Programm schedule
Saturday, 24th of January 2009
PANEL I: CONFRONTING LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION: NEW STRATEGIES
10.00 Introduction
Inka Bertz, Jewish Museum Berlin
10.30 Reconstructing Jewish Cultural Landscapes – The "Tentative Lists" Project 1944–1948
Elisabeth Gallas, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University
11.15 Hashavat Avedah: JCR, Inc. and the Rescue of Heirless Jewish Cultural Property After WW II
Dana Herman, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
12.00 Lunch Break
PANEL II: GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
13.30 To Whom Do the Jewish Cultural Treasures Belong after 1945? Conflict of Interests in the City of Frankfurt am Main
Katharina Rauschenberger, Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main
14.15 The Situation in Berlin 1945–1953
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15:00 Displaced on Three Continents. The Fate of the Material Heritage of the Jewish Community in Vienna
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Jewish Museum Vienna
15.45 Coffee Break
PANEL III: EAST CENTRAL EUROPE I
16.15 What Happened in Prague?
Michaela Sidenberg, Jewish Museum in Prague
17.00 Dealing with the Jewish Cultural Assets in Post-War Poland
Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz, Art Historian and Provenance Researcher, Warsaw/Munich
17.45 The Jewish Historical Institute as a Repository for Jewish Cultural Treasures in Poland
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Sunday, 25th of January 2009
PANEL IV: WESTERN EUROPE
10.00 A Matter of Conscience? Legal and Moral Aspects of Dutch Restitution Policy
Julie Marthe Cohen, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
10.45 The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Treasures in Paris and in France
Laurence Sigal, Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme, Paris
11.30 Looted Jewish Art and Cultural Properties in Italy. The Difficult Restitution and Compensation after 1945
Paola Bertilotti, Sciences-Po, Paris / Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon
12.15 Lunch Break
PANEL V: EAST CENTRAL EUROPE II
13.45 Lviv 1944 – Now. Jewish Cultural Objects and Property. Some Cases and Tendencies
Tarik Cyril Amar, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
14.30 Restitution Issues in Post-War Romania
Hildrun Glass, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
15.15 "Disappeared?" The Fate of Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts in Hungary after 1945
Eszter Gantner, ELTE University of Budapest – Center for Central European German Jewish Culture
16.00 Final Discussion: Open Questions, Ongoing Controversies -- www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de
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