BIBFRAME Work

Title

Museums in Israel after the Holocaust

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Multifaceted history of cultural heritage

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Kochavi, Shir (author)

Subject

• Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (LCNAF)
• World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions (LCSH)
• Jewish property--Europe (LCSH)
• Cultural property--Israel (LCSH)
• Bet ha-nekhot ha-leʼumi Betsalʼel (LCNAF)
• Cultural property--Repatriation (LCSH)
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (LCNAF)
• Jewish art objects--Europe (LCSH)
• Museums--Israel--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Narkiss, M. (Mordecai) (LCNAF)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: AM79.I8 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 069.095694/09045 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation of a cultural heritage policy during the foundational years of the State of Israel. Based on primary research, the book offers a new understanding of cultural practices after the Second World War, while analysing the role of key Jewish cultural representatives who shaped museum collections that emerged during this period. The book investigates the ways Israel has dealt with the complicated history of 'heirless' Jewish cultural objects and questions of ownership, by providing a detailed examination of the process of allocation of 'heirless' Jewish cultural property handled by two American-Jewish organizations: the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) and the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) in the immediate years following the Second World War. The book takes a material culture approach, which explores the meanings and values attached to an object over the course of time and during its transition between places and owners. Museums in Israel After the Holocaust is essential reading for academics, students and professionals working on and interested in Holocaust and Israel studies, art history, material culture studies, museum studies, cultural heritage and Middle Eastern Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The Bezalel Museum and Mordecai Narkiss' Salvage Project -- Working with the JCR -- Salvage As a National Cultural Project -- Inheriting the Past: The Israel Museum -- Heritage Policy in the Making : Nazi-Confiscated Art Restitution.

Authorized Access Point

Kochavi, Shir. Museums in Israel after the Holocaust

Geographic Coverage

• Israel

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:18.507140+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23603376

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc