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Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.

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Organization for returning stolen Jewish cultural property after World War II

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. was an organization established by theConference on Jewish Relations[1] in April 1947 to collect and distribute heirless Jewish property in theAmerican occupied zone of Germany afterWorld War II.[2] The organization, originally named the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (alternatively Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Commission), was originally proposed in 1944 byTheodor Gaster of theLibrary of Congress, and one of its cofounders.[3][4][5]

Shortly after its founding, it became the cultural arm of theJewish Restitution Successor Organization.[6] It distributed about 150,000 heirless items, mostly books from theOffenbach Archival Depot whose owners could not be identified, to libraries in the United States and abroad,[4] among others to the library of theIsraelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich in Switzerland.[7]Hannah Arendt, then managing director of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., handed over parts of the library of theBreslau Rabbinical Seminary in Germany which was suppressed by the Nazis in 1938. The oldest books of the Breslau collection date back to the 16th century, among them a 1595 print ofFlavius Josephus'Antiquities of the Jews.[8][9] Funding for the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction's operations was provided by theAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and theJewish Agency for Palestine. Among the leaders and officers of the organization wereSalo Baron,Hannah Arendt,Leo Baeck, andGershom Scholem.[10] The organization ceased operations in 1952.

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  1. ^Baron 2007.
  2. ^JVL 2019.
  3. ^Gaster 1945.
  4. ^abWaite 2002.
  5. ^Herman 2008.
  6. ^Leff, Lisa Moses (2015).The Archives Thief. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 137.ISBN 9780199380954.
  7. ^Adrian Portmann (2014-01-20)."Zukunft der geschichtsträchtigen Bibliothek ist ungewiss" (in German).Limmattaler Zeitung. Retrieved2015-09-18.
  8. ^Martina Läubli (2015-01-09)."Bibliothek der Israelitischen Cultusgemeinde Zürich: Jüdischer Bücherschatz" (in German).NZZ. Retrieved2015-12-18.
  9. ^"75 Jahre Bibliothek Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich".Ex Libris (bookshop) (in German). Retrieved2015-12-18.
  10. ^Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report, 2000, archived fromthe original on 2013-02-17, retrieved2013-08-29

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