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  • 2015-2019  (2)
  • 1945-1949
  • Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press  (2)
  • Jews
  • Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
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    The Holocaust, corporations, and the law : unfinished business (2017)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472053612 , 0472073613 , 9780472073610
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 239 Seiten , Diagramme
    Year of publication: 2017
    Series Statement: Law, meaning, and violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    PC 2800
    Keywords: USA ; Geschichte ; Weltkrieg (1939-1945) ; Judenvernichtung ; Reparationen ; Überlebender ; USA ; World War, 1939-1945 / Claims ; Class actions (Civil procedure) / United States ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Reparations ; Holocaust survivors / Legal status, laws, etc / United States ; USA Alien tort claims act ; Judenvernichtung ; Überlebender ; Reparationen ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining the issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the suits were settled for unprecedented amounts of money, the defendants did not formally assume any legal responsibility. Thus, the lawsuits were bitterly criticized by lawyers for betraying justice and by historians for distorting history. Leora Bilsky argues class action litigation and settlement offer a mode of accountability well suited to addressing the bureaucratic nature of business involvement in atrocities. Prior to these lawsuits, legal treatment of the Holocaust was dominated by criminal law and its individualistic assumptions, consistently failing to relate to the structural aspects of Nazi crimes. Engaging critically with contemporary debates about corporate responsibility for human rights violations and assumptions about "law," she argues for the need to design processes that make multinational corporations accountable, and examines the implications for transitional justice, the relationship between law and history, and for community and representation in a post-national world. In an era when corporations are ever more powerful and international, Bilsky's arguments will attract attention beyond those interested in the Holocaust and its long shadow
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Corporate accountability and collective guilt -- 2. Transnational Holocaust litigation : between international criminal law and structural reform -- 3. Rethinking settlement -- 4. Transnational litigation and the legitimacy of domestic courts -- 5. A process-oriented approach to corporate liability for human rights violations -- 6. Humanitarian payment and corporate responsibility -- 7. The judge and the historian -- 8. Commissioned corporate history -- Conclusion : transnational Holocaust litigation as a source of theorization and strategy
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    Three-way street : Jews, Germans, and the transnational (2016)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472130122
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 352 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Three-way street
    DDC: 305.892/4043
    Keywords: Jews History ; Jews, German ; Jews, German, in literature ; Jews History ; Germany ; Jews, German Foreign countries ; Jews, German, in literature ; Jews ; Jews, German ; Jews, German, in literature ; Germany ; Germany ; Germany Civilization ; Jewish influences ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; Germany Civilization ; Jewish influences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Transnationalisierung ; Geschichte 1900-2015 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Interkulturalität ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "As German Jews emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany--and Berlin in particular--attracted both secular and religious Jewish scholars from eastern Europe. They engaged in vital intellectual exchange with German Jewry, although their cultural and religious practices differed greatly, and they absorbed many cultural practices that they brought back to Warsaw or took with them to New York and Tel Aviv. After the Holocaust, German Jews and non-German Jews educated in Germany were forced to reevaluate their essential relationship with Germany and Germanness as well as their notions of Jewish life outside of Germany. Among the first volumes to focus on German-Jewish transnationalism, this interdisciplinary collection spans the fields of history, literature, film, theater, architecture, philosophy, and theology as it examines the lives of significant emigrants. The individuals whose stories are reevaluated include German Jews Ernst Lubitsch, David Einhorn, and Gershom Scholem, the architect Fritz Nathan and filmmaker Helmar Lerski; and eastern European Jews David Bergelson, Der Nister, Jacob Katz, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Abraham Joshua Heschel--figures not normally associated with Germany. Three-Way Street addresses the gap in the scholarly literature as it opens up critical ways of approaching Jewish culture not only in Germany, but also in other locations, from the mid-19th century to the present"--
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