The Demise of the World of the Gutnajers: The Warsaw Art Market in World War II

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Art Market ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Pre World War Ii

Abstract A substantial number of Jewish art and antiques dealers operated in pre-World War II Warsaw. Particularly respected were the salons of the brothers Bernard and Abe Gutnajer. Virtually everyone in their milieu perished in the Warsaw ghetto or Treblinka. Taking their place were new “Aryan” dealers and a clientele of “new” money. The Warsaw art market under the German occupation experienced a particular growth between the start of the Jewish ghetto’s liquidation in mid-1942 and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, as “abandoned” property flooded the market. After decades of subsequent turbulent history, researchers can hardly hope to document the provenance of more than a fraction of tens of thousands of surviving works of art and valuable antiques.

scholarly journals The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Susan Nashman Fraiman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Unpublished Work ◽  
The World

This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949. The Torah Ark is the central focus of all synagogue worship. Szyk’s ark is unique in its multiplicity of symbols and texts, which was at odds with the modernist idiom of post-World War II synagogue architecture. This research, which also brings previously unpublished material, analyzes the possible sources for the work and its distinctive message, which is exceptional in the world of modern contemporary Jewish art.

Death in Vienna

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Siemens
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
World War ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

“Death in Vienna” is intended as an introduction to this themed issue on The Dark Spectacle: Landscapes of Devastation in Film and Photography. Drawing on Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, the articles gathered here address the representation of unsettling subject matter (war, ecological catastrophe, destructive urbanization) in a variety of visual media. The collection’s specific focus is on the important role played by space in the depiction of disturbing events. Do images portraying death and destruction generate documents, or do they create works of art? Does their beauty drain “attention from the sobering subject?” “Death in Vienna” addresses these and other related questions with reference to Yevgeny Khaldei’s photography, specifically a shocking image he took in Vienna during the final days of the World War II. Together with Sontag, this article also questions our “right to look” at images of extreme suffering.

Pan-Slavism and World War II

1952 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Kohn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Second World

In spite of later claims that it had been the leader of the anti-fascist camp and of the Slav world from the beginning of the second World War, the Soviet Union followed a strictly Russian policy, neither anti-fascist nor Pan-Slav, from August, 1939, to June, 1941. This policy clearly foreshadowed a nationalist revival of the language and aspirations that had been most characteristic of Old Russia but were assumed to have been definitely buried in the ten November days of 1917 which shook the world. During these two years not the slightest sympathy for the Czechs and Poles suffering under German occupation was expressed. Indeed, although Leninist communism during World War I had conducted a violent defeatist propaganda compaign in both warring camps, the subversive communist propaganda that was resumed in 1939 was directed only against the democratic nations. “Moreover, officially, even ostentatiously, help was granted to the camp of fascism so that, from 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union could be considered a non-belligerent partner of the Axis. From the policy of benevolent neutrality towards the Axis the Soviet Union was removed against its will. Circumstances made it an ally of the democracies. This change was performed reluctantly, only because no other choice was left.”

scholarly journals Women and Wage Labor in Occupied Serbia 1941–1944. Policy of Collaborationist Government and German Occupation Authorities

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3/2020) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Ljubinka ŠKODRIĆ
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
World War ◽  
Job Market ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
The World

The article analyzes the conditions of the participation of women on the job market in occupied Serbia in the course of the World War II. Its focus is on the policy of the local collaborationist government and the attitudes of the German occupation authorities regarding female employment and the working conditions of employed women, the possibilities and forms of their employment, and the position of the female workforce. This research is conducted on the basis of archival material, wartime press, and literature.

Profesor Edward Loth – Sprawiedliwy Wśród Narodów Świata za sprawą doktora Ludwika Stabholza

Nowa Medycyna ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ciesielska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Specialization ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Military ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Professor Edward Loth was an outstanding scientist, author of numerous scientific dissertations, including 7 monographs cited all over the world to this day. The life and scientific achievements of prof. Loth have been described in many detailed studies focusing both on his didactic activities and active participation in the fight against the German invader during World War II. Due to the military experience gained during World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920 as well as the medical specialization in the field of orthopedics and rehabilitation, prof. Loth was especially qualified to manage the sanitary facilities of the Home Army during the German occupation in Poland. Almost all studies show that Professor Loth was awarded, among others The Order of Virtuti Militari and that he was given the title of “Righteous Among the Nations”. Unfortunately none of the existing articles describe the circumstances in which Professor helped Jews and who applied for his candidacy for this prestigious distinction. Due to the scientific research on the history of the doctors of the Warsaw ghetto, the author reached documents and accounts describing the so-called ”rescue story” and the name of the person whom help was given.

The Jewish workers in the port of Thessaloniki (1939-1943): Their war experience as workers, Greeks and Jews

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-373
Author(s):  
Shai Srougo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Experience

This article explores the last chapter in the long history of the Jewish port workers in the waterfront of Thessaloniki—the World War II years. The Jewish blue-collar workers and white-collar workers shared a common history, and at the same time, each had a different story to tell on the drama of the war. Their everyday experience in the roles of workers, soldiers, non-combatants, and as Greek civilians reveals the Jewish role in shaping the space of the wartime port during three periods: Greek neutrality (September 1939 to September 1940), the Greek-Italian War (October 1940 to March 1941), and German occupation from April 1941 to March 1943, when the port became an ‘Aryan’ space.

scholarly journals Reflections of Theatrical Activities in Lithuanian Local Periodical Press Under German Occupation 1941–1944

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Ina Pukelytė
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
World War ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
The World

Summary The article explores the reflection of Lithuanian theatrical activities in the local press during the World War II. As the number of articles shows, theatre was an important part of the dailies’ content. The articles reveal that theatre activities were very important for the expansion of the Nazi culture. One can distinguish three general themes that the articles cover: promotion of Western theatre, especially German, promotion of Lithuanian repertoire and presentation of entertainment theatre. The latter can still be divided into entertainment for German soldiers and administration, and entertainment for Lithuanian audiences. The content of the articles reveals that journalists writing about theatre avoided Nazi propaganda clichés, such as hatred for Bolsheviks and Jews, but these clichés were nevertheless used by the representatives of theatre administrators.

The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Early History ◽  
World War ◽  
International Context ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This chapter traces the early history of state-sponsored informational filmmaking in Denmark, emphasising its organisation as a ‘cooperative’ of organisations and government agencies. After an account of the establishment and early development of the agency Dansk Kulturfilm in the 1930s, the chapter considers two of its earliest productions, both process films documenting the manufacture of bricks and meat products. The broader context of documentary in Denmark is fleshed out with an account of the production and reception of Poul Henningsen’s seminal film Danmark (1935), and the international context is accounted for with an overview of the development of state-supported filmmaking in the UK, Italy and Germany. Developments in the funding and output of Dansk Kulturfilm up to World War II are outlined, followed by an account of the impact of the German Occupation of Denmark on domestic informational film. The establishment of the Danish Government Film Committee or Ministeriernes Filmudvalg kick-started aprofessionalisation of state-sponsored filmmaking, and two wartime public information films are briefly analysed as examples of its early output. The chapter concludes with an account of the relations between the Danish Resistance and an emerging generation of documentarists.

THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

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