Thursday, 16 November 2017
9:30 WELCOME ADDRESS
Yfaat Weiss (Leipzig/Jerusalem), Marcel Lepper (Marbach)
10:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Marcel Lepper (Marbach)
David E. Fishman (New York): Who Inherits the Relics of Jerusalem? On the Retrieval, Disposition, and Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property from Vilna (Vilnius) after World War II
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Panel 1: DISPERSED AND FRAGMENTED COLLECTIONS – LITHUANIA
Chair: David E. Fishman
Bilha Shilo (Jerusalem): When YIVO was defined by Territory: Two Perspectives on the Restitution of YIVO's Collections
Lara Lempertienė (Vilnius): A Shattered Mirror. The Efforts of Reconstructing the Pre-War Jewish Life in Lithuania through Rediscovered Documents
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Panel 2: CONTESTED OWNERSHIP AND MEMORY – POLAND
Chair: Dietmar Müller (Leipzig)
Łukasz Krzyżanowski (Berlin): Holocaust Survivors in Court: The Appropriation and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Early Post-War Years in Poland
Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz (Warsaw/Munich): Polish Comfortable Desinteressement
16:00 Coffee Break
17:00 EVENING LECTURE
Chair: Tanja Zimmermann (Leipzig)
Andrea Rehling (Mainz): Whose Heritage? UNESCO Balancing Between Restitution of Cultural Property and Common Heritage of Mankind
Friday, 17 November 2017
9:00 Panel 3: LOCATING THE TREASURES ‒ POSTWAR JEWISH RESTITUTION INITIATIVES
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig)
Yehuda Dvorkin (Jerusalem): Restitution of Cultural Property from Europe to Israel: The British Case
Zachary M. Baker (Stanford, CA): Setting the Stage: Preliminary Efforts by the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction to Document Endangered Jewish Cultural Properties
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 LUNCH LECTURE
Chair: Frieder von Ammon (Leipzig)
Caroline Jessen (Marbach): Asserting Ownership, Obscuring Provenance. Jewish Émigré Collections in Germany after 1945
11:45 Lunch Break
12:30 Panel 4: NATIONALIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION – CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Chair: Jan Gerber (Leipzig)
Opening Statement: Matĕj Spurný (Jena/ Prague)
Anna Kawałko (Jerusalem): Objects of Desire, Objects of Denial. On the Status of German-Jewish Cultural Property in Czechoslovakia after 1945
Michal Bušek (Prague): Restitution of Jewish Property in Post-War Czechoslovakia: Developments after 1948, Changes since 1989
14:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
Chairs: Yfaat Weiss (Leipzig/Jerusalem), Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig), Marcel Lepper (Marbach)