Description: This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its role as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics.
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Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951-1964 revises the existing scholarship about the Claims Conference, arguably the most important Diaspora-based Jewish organization in the decades after 1945. Rachel Blumenthal expertly explores the origins, decision-making, and operations of this pivotal transnational agency founded for the benefit of Holocaust survivors. Right to Reparations offers us a clear, balanced understanding of what is still an extremely volatile issue: the plight and rights of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and their descendants. Right to Reparations will soon become part of ongoing debates in the Jewish world today at the intersection of history, equity, practice, and Diaspora-Israel relations.