Restitution and memory : material restoration in Europe / edited by Dan Diner and Gotthart Wunberg.

Papers presented at an international conference held June 21-23, 2001 in Vienna, Austria.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Memory and restitution : World War II as a foundational event in a uniting Europe / Dan Diner -- Money and memory : transvaluating the redress of loss / John Borneman -- Pecunifying respectability? : on the impossibility of honorable restitution / Natan Sznaider -- Conversion, exchange, and replacement : reflecting cultural legacies of indemnity / Sigrid Weigel -- Converting wrongs to rights? : compensating Nazi forced labor as paradigm / Lutz Niethammer -- Scholarly investigation and material compensation : the Austrian Historical Commission at work / Clemens Jabloner -- The object's memory : remembering rural Jews in Southern Germany / Ulrich Baumann -- "These are German houses" : Polish memory confronting Jedwabne / François Guesnet -- Looted texts : restituting Jewish libraries / Markus Kirchhoff -- Restitution and reconstructed identity : Jewish property and collective self-awareness in Central Europe / Catherine Horel -- Eloquent silence : inscribing Hungarian memories / Béla Rásky -- Recovering Austrian memory : stratifying restitution debates / Heidemarie Uhl -- Historical injustices and international morality : Eastern European and Swiss cases / Elazar Barkan -- Recollecting explusion : locating German refugees in Polish and Czech memories / Claudia Kraft -- Conflicting memories, unrestituted : Wadi Salib as an Israeli political metaphor / Yfaat Weiss -- Wiedergutmachung in Germany : balancing historical accounts 1945-2000 / Hans Günter Hockerts.