2008: Michael Marrus (1941-2022), “Some Measure of Justice 03, Analyzing Justice: Evaluating Justice, Was Justice Achieved?”

November 30, 2008

Michael Marrus (1941-2022), “Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990’s 03, Evaluating Justice, Was Justice Achieved?”

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

Sunday, 30 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 Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem 9214116
ISRAEL

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

Chair: Yehuda Bauer (1926-2024) (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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 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/

Professor Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. Bauer is fluent in Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, and Polish. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. His family migrated to Israel in 1939. After completing high school in Haifa, he attended Cardiff University in Wales on a British scholarship. — Professor Yehuda Bauer was Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. Bauer was fluent in Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, and Polish. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. His family migrated to Israel in 1939. After completing high school in Haifa, he attended Cardiff University in Wales on a British scholarship.