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Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

Autor Michael R. Marrus Cuvânt înainte de William a. Schabas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2009
Can there ever be justice for the Holocaust? During the 1990s—triggered by lawsuits in the United States against Swiss banks, German corporations, insurance companies, and owners of valuable works of art—claimants and their lawyers sought to rectify terrible wrongs committed more than a half century earlier. Some Measure of Justice explores this most recent wave of justice-seeking for the Holocaust: what it has been, why it emerged when it did, how it fits with earlier reparation to the Jewish people, its significance for the historical representation of the Holocaust, and its implications for justice-seeking in our time.
    Writings on the subject of Holocaust reparations have largely come from participants, lawyers, philosophers, journalists, and social scientists specializing in restitution. In Some Measure of Justice Michael Marrus takes up the issue as a historian deeply involved with legal issues. He engages with larger questions about historical understanding and historical interpretation as they enter the legal arena. Ultimately this book asks, What constitutes justice for a great historic wrong? And, Is such justice possible?
 
 
Winner, Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299234041
ISBN-10: 0299234045
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas


Recenzii

“Marrus is on target nearly every step of the way. He combines a deep knowledge of twentieth-century history with an expertise in legal matters.”—Anthony Sebok, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

Some Measure of Justice offers a fresh perspective and one that I think is badly needed in the field.”—Michael Bazyler, Chapman University School of Law and “1939” Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies

Notă biografică

Michael R. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and author, among other works, of The Holocaust in History, The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945–46. He is coauthor, with Robert Paxton, of Vichy France and the Jews. In 2008 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he delivered the George L. Mosse Lectures, upon which this book is based.

Cuprins

Foreword by William A. Schabas   
Preface   

Introduction   
1. Restitution in the 1990s   
2. Art, Law, and History   
3. Restitution in Historical Perspective   
4. Restitution in Law and History   
5. Evaluating Some Measure of Justice   

Notes       
Index   

Descriere

Can there ever be justice for the Holocaust? During the 1990s—triggered by lawsuits in the United States against Swiss banks, German corporations, insurance companies, and owners of valuable works of art—claimants and their lawyers sought to rectify terrible wrongs committed more than a half century earlier. Some Measure of Justice explores this most recent wave of justice-seeking for the Holocaust: what it has been, why it emerged when it did, how it fits with earlier reparation to the Jewish people, its significance for the historical representation of the Holocaust, and its implications for justice-seeking in our time.