2008: Michael Marrus, “Some Measure of Justice 02, Analyzing Justice: Restitution in Law and History”

November 26, 2008

Michael Marrus (1941-2022), “Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990’s 02, Analyzing Justice: Restitution in Law and History”

George L. Mosse Distinguished Lectures
https://mosselectures.wisc.edu/program/

Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 19:30 IDT

This lecture series was published as Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campain of the 1990s (Madison: University of Wisconsin Madison, 2009).

2008.11.24-25 - Michael Marrus - Some Measure of Justice

Van-Leer Institute Jerusalem
43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem 9214116
ISRAEL

Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History

Chair: Renée Poznanski (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

Lecture Series Overview: 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?

Michael Marrus lecturing in 2012 — **Michael R. Marrus** was 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 was coauthor, with Robert Paxton, of *Vichy France* *and the Jews.* In 2008 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he delivered the George L. Mosse Distinguished Lectures.
https://sheldonkirshner.com/michael-marrus-a-distinguished-historian-of-the-holocaust/

Renée Poznanski earned a Ph.D. and a B.A. in political science from the Institute of Political Science in Paris, and an M.A. and a B.A. in Russian studies from Sorbonne University. During her fellowship at the Museum, Professor Poznanski was the Yaakov and Poria Avnon Professor of Holocaust Studies at Ben Gurion University in Israel. For her Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship, Professor Poznanski researched “Jewish Resistance in France during World War II.”

A recipient of the Jacob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust, Professor Poznanski is the author of Jews in France during World War Two (Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, University Press of New England, 2001; first edition in French, Paris: Hachette, 1994; then in Hebrew, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999) which was a finalist for the 2002 Koret Jewish Book Award in History. For her editorial and translation work on S.M. Dubnov’s Letters on Old and New Judaism (Paris, 1989) Professor Poznanski was awarded the Henri Hertz Prize of the Rectorat of Paris. She has published numerous book chapters and scholarly articles including “On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists and the Second World War” (in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 2004); “The French Resistance: An Alternative Society for the Jews?” (in Nazi Europe and the Final Solution, 2003); “Jews and non-Jews in France during WWII: A Daily Life Perspective” (in Lessons and Legacies V: The Holocaust and Justice, 2002) and “The Geopolitics of Jewish Resistance in France” (in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2001). In 2003 she participated in the “Jewish Resistance and Jews in National Resistance Movements” workshop sponsored by the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.