...Julia Voss The article discusses the development of restitution politics after the Gurlitt case. First, it summarizes the events that led to Cornelius Gurlitt's will to give his collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern in May 2014. Second, it compares the handling of the Gurlitt case to previous...

...Konstantin Akinsha During World War II the Soviet Union did not join the Allied restitution effort. Instead, more than two and a half million objects (not counting millions of books) were transported to the Soviet Union from its zone of occupation in Germany and from other European countries...

...Lawrence M. Kaye This article examines the problems associated with the restitution of Nazi-looted art in the United States by focusing on some of the leading cases. Although some legal battles have been won by the heirs of Holocaust victims and others are ongoing, many have been unsuccessful. The...

...Jonathan Petropoulos Recent books and film treatments of the Allies' restitution efforts have tended toward the triumphalist. The recovery, safeguarding, and return of looted works has become a story of good overcoming evil. This article seeks to complicate that narrative. The Monuments officers...

... to the Princes Czartoryski Museum. Polish claim Gołuchów makata restitution Stephan Komornicki looted art References “Book of Deposits of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, established October 20, 1924.” 1924 –. Archives of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation , Kraków...

... looted art, “degenerate art,” and restitution that Germany still has to clarify. The answers and explanations will, however, not close the Gurlitt case. Beyond a simple clarification of the facts, we need an account of how this case was used, if at all, to come to terms with the past and...

... their agents. It also raises a host of legal and ethical questions about restitution and what one might call belated transitional justice for stolen art and its former private or public owners. The Gurlitt story was so toxic that it cast glaring light on the failures of German Vergangenheits­...

... morally superior but to show me how certain theoretical positions could devolve into such moralizing. Andy coined the phrase “the moral capital of suffering,” a Nietzschean recognition of the strategies of power that corrupt liberation movements; infect historical claims to restitution by...

...—the Greek empeiria, the Latin experientia, from which the word expe- rience is derived. The “restitution of experience against its empiricist deforma- tion,” demanded in the final lines of “Scientific Experiences,” required the development of a method that could confront such deformation...

... become—one also recognizes the problem that Adorno’s life and thought pose, as an aspect of experience that an uncritical science has lost the ability to articulate and analyze. In 1968 Adorno bequeathed to his German students and American readers “a kind of restitution of experience against its...

... Israel around the issue of restitution payments. Jewish Stalinism aptly describes the ideological and literary-critical ori- entation of Mark, his Warsaw colleagues, and their dispersed fellow travelers. I use the term to mean the ways that Jews—whether sincerely or strategically— 6. I...

... post-Wende restitution case, the claimants—the descendants of the Nazi architect couple—won the legal battle, and the house was returned 29. On Fritz and John Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck’s father, see Wolfgang Emmerich, Kleine Litera- turgeschichte der DDR (Cologne: Kiepenheuer, 1997), 99, 313–14...

...-) Restitution,” German Historical Institute London Bulletin 34, no. 1 (2012): esp. 73–78. 19. Of course, as the JDC in New York somewhat apologetically pointed out when donors in the United States inquired about the fate of packages designated for loved ones trapped in central Asia, not every...

... Bourke-White, “Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly”: A Report on the Collapse of Hitler’s “Thousand Years” (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), 86. 63. PRO, FO 1051-720, Housing Law 18 and drafts. 64. LAB, C Rep 309, A 5064, Kontrollrat Gesetz Nr. 18, preamble. 65. Restitution claims were...

... conceptual objectifi cations and reductionist metaphors of historical materialism and other “economist” discourses.25 Safe- guarded does not refer here to an impossible—as Schmitt is always the fi rst to remark—restoration or reactionary restitution of an active role of the Vatican in positive political...

... relation with one another. An abridged series follows: the messianic intensity of happiness, tragic devotion, the worldly restitution of immortality, revolutionary nihilism, cataclysmic anarchism, the magic of the inexpress- ible, symbolic revelation, reception as translation, judgment, the...

... ironies of postwar German history that the West German government, flush with former Nazis and dragging its feet when it came to prosecuting war criminals, initiated restitution and became a solid supporter of Israel, while the East German regime slavishly followed Mos- cow’s lead in spouting anti...