Research Catalog

Title

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction field reports, memoranda, etc. / Hannah Arendt ; [a work by Maria Eichhorn ; produced with assistance from Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff].

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

Publication

New York : Jewish Museum, 2021.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, M. Darsie
• Eichhorn, Maria, 1962-
• Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Description

60 pages : facsimiles; 28 cm

Summary

"While serving as Executive Secretary for restitution organization Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR), Hannah Arendt produced hundreds of pages of documents between 1947 and 1952. This booklet presents a selection of these."

Alternative Title

Hannah Arendt Jewish Cultural Reconstruction field reports, memoranda, etc.

Subject

• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 > Exhibitions
• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
• 1900-1999
• Jewish property > Germany > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > Exhibitions
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Reparations > Exhibitions
• Cultural property > Repatriation > History > Germany > Exhibitions
• Cultural property > Repatriation
• Jewish property
• War reparations
• Germany

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Cover title.
• "This booklet is a component of Maria Eichhorn's work, "Hannah Arendt: Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Field Reports, Memoranda, etc., 2021," which she produced as part of the exhibition "Afterlives : Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art" at the Jewish Museum, New York, August 20, 2021-January 8, 2022. The work consists of this booklet; volumes recovered and redistributed by the JCR borrowed from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the New York Public Library, Yeshiva University, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; archival documents borrowed from the Jewish Museum, Yeshiva University, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; and an audio recording of Hannah Arendt's field reports read by Ruth Rosenfeld."

Source (note)

• of Edward Kasinec;

Contents

Field report no. 12, December 1949 -- Field report no. 15, February 10, 1950 -- Field report no. 16, February 18, 1950 -- Field report no. 18, February 15-March 10, 1950 -- Agreement between Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., and recipient museums and congregations, undated -- Letter to Dr. Stephen S. Kayser, director of the Jewish Museum, August 22, 1949 -- Memorandum to members of the board of directors and the advisory committee, August 18, 1950 -- Minutes of the special meeting of the board of directors, December 21, 1950 -- Memorandum to members of the advisory committee, June 26, 1950 -- Memorandum to members of the advisory committee, January 17, 1951 -- Memorandum to members of the board of directors and the advisory committee, April 13, 1951 -- Memorandum to members of the board of directors and the advisory committee, July 1952.

Call Number

JFF 22-645

OCLC

1290678480

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975, author.

Title

Jewish Cultural Reconstruction field reports, memoranda, etc. / Hannah Arendt ; [a work by Maria Eichhorn ; produced with assistance from Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff].

Publisher

New York : Jewish Museum, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Source

Gift; of Edward Kasinec; 2022.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Alexander, M. Darsie.

Eichhorn, Maria, 1962- artist. Afterlives.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Kasinec, Edward, donor.

Research Call Number

JFF 22-645