Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer

Questions arose after 1945, and have persisted, about the ownership of properties which had belonged to Jewish communities before the Second World War, to Holocaust victims and survivors, and to Jewish expellees from the Middle East and North Africa. Studies of these properties have often focused on their symbolic values, their places in cultures of memory and identity construction, and measures of justice achieved or denied.

This collection explores contesting conceptions of ownership and p...