Coming Home? Jews in Postwar Paris

Auslander, Leora

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“…In contrast to earlier work focusing on memory, memorialisation and trauma (e.g. Crane 1997;Auslander 2005aAuslander , 2005bAudoin-Rouzeau 2009;Arnold-de Simine 2013;Solaro 2018;Geyer 2020), we develop an approach from museum studies for the analysis of the heritage of war and violence.…”

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The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’

Alberti

Nehring

2021

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Recent historical research has analysed the Cold War as an 'imaginary war', an interpretation that poses specific challenges for displaying the conflict in museums. In contrast to well-established representations of the First and Second World Wars in exhibitions, we find that the nature of the Cold War in Europe and the North Atlantic has made it difficult to tell stories of victimhood, heroism and military valour. Moreover, the memory and heritage of the Cold War have often been presented as monolithic and lacking specific chronologies, adding to the difficulty of telling stories through objects. This article explores how selected museums and exhibitions in the UK and Germany have addressed this double challenge. We examine how the conflict is portrayed, how buildings, images, text and artefacts interact in selected museums and exhibitions, and how they generate specific interpretations. We show these interpretations to be diverse and fractured: each museum chose different paths to staging the Cold War. From their comparison, in the context of heritage studies. We make the case for a distinct museology of the Cold War. We argue for a reflective approach that encourages the engagement of museum and heritage professionals with diverse material culture, filling the 'empty battlefield'.

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The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’

Alberti

Nehring

2021

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…59 Studies of Jewry have shown how the surviving members of a minority that had once been such an integral and very visible part of many European cities found themselves in a peripheral position during the post-war decades, before Jewish culture began to become more visible again towards the end of the twentieth century. 60 In that sense, to conceptualise urban societies in Europe since 1945 requires us to be aware of absences as well as manifold presences, of social imaginations as well as social practices and effects.…”

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Urban Societies in Europe since 1945: Toward a Historical Interpretation

Föllmer¹,

Smith²

2015

Contemporary European History

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How can we write the history of urban societies in Europe after 1945? This article offers an interpretative overview of key developments in both Eastern and Western Europe, while also discussing some key conceptual issues. Along the way, it takes stock of the relevant historiography (much of which is very recent) and introduces a selection of papers from a cycle of three international workshops held between 2011 and 2013. The papers range geographically from Britain to the Soviet Union and cover topics as diverse as post-war reconstruction and alternative communities in the 1970s. Their respective approaches are informed by an interest in the way societies have been imagined in discourses and reshaped in spatial settings. Moreover, the papers move beyond case studies, urban history's classic genre, and can therefore facilitate synthetic reflection. It is our hope that, in so doing, we can make urban history more relevant to contemporary European historians in general.

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“…60 It is easy to understand why Rose Valland's report in 1950 of repositories of furniture 'that had belonged to French Jews' in the Soviet zone, in Poland and in Czechoslovakia did not go anywhere, since the Mo¨bel-Aktion was not covered by any French reparation policy after the closing of the CRA and until the establishment of the Commission for the compensation of victims of spoliations resulting from the antisemitic legislation in force during the Occupation (Commission pour l'indemnisation des victimes de spoliations, CIVS) in 1999. 61 The expunging of Nazi plunder, the transfer of remaining collections to German and Austrian authorities, and the cover-up of misappropriations of looted property all resulted from the complex linkages between the unspoken collaboration and antisemitic persecution in France and the wish to rebuild the country and Europe anew. Ordinary victims -Jewish people, leftist activists, Freemasons, 'white' Russians, etc.…”

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Cultural Looting and Restitution at the Dawn of the Cold War: The French Recovery Missions in Eastern Europe

Cœuré

2016

Journal of Contemporary History

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France was massively affected by Nazi looting and plundering, and was also probably one of the most successful countries in securing the return of cultural property. Drawing on recently opened Archives, this article reflects on the entangled history of the 'recovery' of works of art in Soviet occupation zones, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and in the GDR, focusing on the French investigations in the East. The micro history of this fieldwork allows for an interpretation of looting and restitution as a transnational moment of political and memory construction. The article first presents the organization of missions in the changing landscape of Europe, leading to the beginning of an East-West relationship on the ground. Then it analyses French and Soviet visions of the notion of looting, restitution and cultural property and finally concludes by attempting to interpret a loss of memory.

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Coming Home? Jews in Postwar Paris

Abstract: Archives Nationales, Paris, AJ38, D110

Cited by 22 publications

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The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’

The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’

Urban Societies in Europe since 1945: Toward a Historical Interpretation

Cultural Looting and Restitution at the Dawn of the Cold War: The French Recovery Missions in Eastern Europe

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