Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
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Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. (JCR) was an organization established in 1947 to collect and distribute heirless Jewish property in the American occupied zone of Germany after World War Two.[1] About 150,000 heirless items (mostly books from the Offenbach Archival Depot whose owners could not be identified) were distributed by the JCR to libraries in the United States and abroad.[2] Funding for the JCR's operations was provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Among the leaders and officers of the organization were Salo Baron, Hannah Arendt, Leo Baeck, and Gershom Scholem.[3] The JCR ceased operations in 1952.
References
- ↑ "Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc", Jewish Virtual Library, retrieved 2013-08-29
- ↑ Waite, Robert G. (2002). "Returning Jewish Cultural Property: The Handling of Books Looted by the Nazis in the American Zone of Occupation, 1945 to 1952". Libraries & the Cultural Record 37 (3): 213–228. doi:10.1353/lac.2002.0062. ISSN 1932-9555.
- ↑ PLUNDER AND RESTITUTION: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report, 2000, retrieved 2013-08-29
External links
- Hashavat Avedah : a history of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.. Master's Thesis by Dana Herman (2008).
Further reading
- Elisabeth Gallas: Kulturelles Erbe und rechtliche Anerkennung. Die JCR, Inc. nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, 22, Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3863311558, pp. 35 – 56 (in German)
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