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, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, 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 Supérieure 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-Universität München
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