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Title: Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Elie Wiesel ISBN: 1-58648-110-X Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling, fair and authoritative
Comment: Stuart Eizenstat has written an excellent book - it's a fair account of the protracted negotiations for compensation for victims of the Holocaust. Eizenstat is a sharp observer, and he doesn't hesitate critizising people (including himself) when he thought they made mistakes.
This is the first real inside report of the sometimes dramatic negotiations on compensation for Nazi slave labourers and property restitution. As a German who has closely followed these issues I can only congratulate Mr. Eizenstat, not just for his work, but also for his book: it is quite the contrary of what I expected - honest, balanced (but never boring), and above all: very authoritative. An absolute "must" for everyone interested in these issues.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Rare Insider's View of Holocaust Recovery Efforts
Comment: Having lived through the Holocaust, and as someone personally involved in ongoing efforts to recover art works stolen by the Nazis, I found Mr. Eizenstat's new book both revealing and insightful.
Pissarro's Impressionist masterpiece "Rue St. Honore, apres midi, effet de pluie," stolen from the Cassirer family by the Third Reich in 1938, is currently being held, in violation of international law, by the Spanish government in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Mr. Eizenstat has selflessly provided much needed assistance to our family in connection with our efforts to effect its return.
"Imperfect Justice" illustrates, from a rare insider's point of view, the many challenges of typically difficult, complex and not infrequently controversial recovery efforts, and how these obstacles have been overcome on behalf of Holocaust victims and their families. The author's remarkable descriptions of how compensation agreements were forged, and many other fascinating details he shares from his first-hand experience on the "front line" of Holocaust recovery efforts are really most compelling. I encourage everyone interested in the "unfinished business" of the Holocaust to carefully read this unique work of non-fiction by a key figure in these extraordinary matters.
Rating: 5
Summary: What It Takes To Make A Difference
Comment: On one level, this book is worth reading just to affirm that there have in fact been times when important people, in this case one in particular -- the author -- cared fiercely about showing many suffering and powerless thousands that the world cared about the unfathomable injustices they had suffered. The victims didn't really get justice, as that was, as the title acknowledges, not remotely possible. But at least they knew that, finally, after decades of wall to wall indifference, someone was listening and trying, seriously, to do what could be done.
But what will make it hard for many readers to put this book down is that it is both a good story, entertainly told, and a shrewd analysis of a complex multi-party, multi-governmental, legal and political negotiation with high stakes, bitter differences, and high-powered protagonists. The book is certainly one of the best case-studies in captivity of the tricky and combustible mix of law, diplomacy, and politics both bureaucratic and democratic, that drives such processes. That this episode stayed on track to reach the best result that it could have was very far from a sure thing, from the beginning to the end. Eizenstat's seasoned, sometimes cynical, frequently amusing exegisis of the calculations, mistakes, and victories of the players makes the book hugely instructive for professionals as well as entertaining for casual students of government. It could be a popular teaching aid in law schools, especially for Eizenstat's exposition of his own strategies, and his often surprisingly candid Monday Morning quarterbacking of himself.
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Title: Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts by Michael J. Bazyler, Michael J. Bayzler ISBN: 0814799035 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Victim's Fortune : Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust by John Authers, Richard Wolffe ISBN: 0066212642 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0805062602 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg ISBN: 0700611789 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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