Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. THE SETTING
5. Memory and Restitution: World War II as a Foundational Event in a Uniting Europe 9
6. ANTHROPOLOGIZING RESTITUTION
7. Money and Memory: Transvaluating the Redress of Loss 27
8. Pecunifying Respectability? On the Impossibility of Honorable Restitution 51
9. Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement: Refl ecting Cultural Legacies of Indemnity 65
10. COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND THE PRACTICE OF RESTITUTION
11. Converting Wrongs to Rights? Compensating Nazi Forced Labor as Paradigm 83
12. Scholarly Investigation and Material Compensation: The Austrian Historical Commission at Work 105
13. TESSELATED EUROPEAN HISTORIES OF MEMORY
14. The Object’s Memory: Remembering Rural Jews in Southern Germany 117
15. “These Are German Houses”: Polish Memory Confronting Jedwabne 141
16. Looted Texts: Restituting Jewish Libraries 161
17. Restitution and Reconstructed Identity: Jewish Property and Collective Self-Awareness in Central Europe 189
18. Eloquent Silence: Inscribing Hungarian Memories 217
19. Recovering Austrian Memory: Stratifying Restitution Debates 233
20. Historical Injustices and International Morality: Eastern European and Swiss Cases 255
21. Recollecting Expulsion: Locating German Refugees in Polish and Czech Memories 273
22. Conflicting Memories, Unrestituted: Wadi Salib as an Israeli Political Metaphor 301
23. RESOLUTIONS
24. Wiedergutmachung in Germany: Balancing Historical Accounts 1945–2000 323
25. Selected Bibliography 383
26. Contributors 409
27. Index 413