RUTH JOLANDA WEINBERGER

Publications

Books

Temporary and Permanent Effects of Fertility Experiments: Amenorrhea. Miscarriage, and Infertility in Auschwitz and Beyond. New York: Lexington Books, forthcoming.

 together with Peter Weinberger. Josef Franks Herzberg-Villa im Spiegel der Arisierung und Restitution von Bunzl & Biach. Wien: Österreichisches Literaturforum, 2021.

     together with Peter Weinberger. Sechs Schwestern auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten. Wien: Österreichisches   Literaturforum, 2021.

     Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Perpetrators and Their Victims. Saarbrücken: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, 2009.

 Book Chapters

Forthcoming:

Co-authored with Wesley Fisher. “From the Post-War Jewish Restitution Successor Organization to the 2018 Jerusalem Declaration: The Handling of Looted Cultural Property by the Claims Conference.“ Dan Michman, Roni Stauber (eds). Yad Vashem Publications/ Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center.

“Jüdische Sklavenarbeiter: Lebengeschichten aus den USA.” (“Jewish Slave Laborers: Life Stories from the USA.”). Hitlers Sklaven: Lebensgeschichtliche Analyse zur Zwangsarbeit im internationalen Vergleich (Hitlers Slaves: Life Stories of Forced Laborers in Nazi-Occupied Europe). Alexander von Plato, Almut Leh, Christoph Thonfeld (eds). Wien: Böhlau, 2008.  

 “Wie Waldheim mich zum Juden machte: Die nächste Generation.” (“How Waldheim Made Me into a Jew: The Next Generation.”) Das kann einem nur in Wien passieren. (It Could Only Happen in Vienna). Ruth Wodak (ed). Wien: Czernin Verlag, 2001.

 Scholarly Articles

“Seeking Justice, Not Charity. Medical Experiment Victims’ Struggles With Purposefully Inadequate Compensation.” East European Holocaust Studies., (Spring 2024): 1-24 .

 “Jewish Female Medical Defiance.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues. 36. Jewish Women Medical Practitioners in Europe – Before, During and After the Holocaust. (Spring 2020): 133-158.
 

נכויות בילדים שנולדו לקרבנות נחסןיי העיקור הרפואיים בשואה” (“Disabilities in Children Born to Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments.”) Harefuah. 159.4 (April 2020): 269-272.

 co-authored with Peter Weinberger. “Why Couldn’t a Bomb Have Hit Me?: Letters From a Jewish Woman in 1940s Vienna.” East European Jewish Affairs. 48. 3 (2018): 416-433.

 “Fertiliätsexperimente in Auschwitz.” (“Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz.”) Medizinische Experimente in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern.
(Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps.) Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Studies. (2008).
https://www.lbihs.at/WeinbergerFertilitaetsexperimente.pdf

 co-authored with Susan Benedict. “Medical Personnel in Auschwitz.” Medizinische Experimente in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. (Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps.) Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Studies. (2008).
     

 Newspaper Articles

Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments is appalling.” Times of Israel. (10 October 2021).

 co-authored with Paul Weindling and Peggy Kleinplatz. “Telling the Stories of Experiments at Auschwitz.” Jewish Journal. (13 February 2019).
 

 “The Deadly Origins of a Lifesaving Procedure.” Forward. (26 January 2007).
 

 co-authored with Peter Weinberger and Ruth Wodak. “Aber den akademischen Grad können wir ihm nicht aberkennen.” (“But We Cannot Take Away His Academic Title.”). Die Gemeinde. (November 2005): 42-43.

 “Shalom, Austrian President Thomas Klestil,” Forward. (16 July 2004).
 

“A Century After Herzl, Vienna Reimagines Zion.” officially approved translation into English of opinion article in German by Austrian President Thomas Klestil. Forward (18 June 2004).
 

 “Then They Came for the Romani Women.“ Forward (4 March 2003).

 Claims Conference Publications

co-authored with Wesley Fisher. Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Property: A Current Worldwide Overview. 2024.

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4-March-2024-Holocaust-Era-Looted-Cultural-Property-A-Current-Worldwide-Overview.pdf

The Looting of the Julius Genss Collection by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg. 2023

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-WJRO-The-ERR-Looting-of-the-Julius-Genss-Collection-Claims-Conference-Report-March-29-2023-2.pdf

Gurlitt Trove – Statistical Overview. 2021.

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Review-of-Gurlitt-Trove-3-Nov-2021.pdf

Handbuch zur Judaica Provenienz Forschung: Zeremonialobjekte. translation from published English original funded by the German Ministry for Culture and the Media. LVR Druckerei, 2019.

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Judaica-Handbook-DE_17-Sep-2019.pdf

 co-authored with Julie-Marthe Cohen and Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek. Handbook on Judaica Provenance Research: Ceremonial Objects., Looted Art & Cultural Property Initiative of the Claims Conference and World Jewish Restitution Organization. 2018.

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads//2019/09/Judaica-Handbook_17-Sep-2019.pdf

 Descriptive Catalogue of Looted Judaica. 2016.

https://art.claimscon.org/work-provenance-research-archives/judaica/descriptive-catalogue-of-looted-judaica/.

 co-authored with Wesley Fisher. Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A Current Worldwide Overview. 2014.

https://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Worldwide-Overview.pdf

 The Looting of Jewish and Cultural Objects in Former Yugoslavia: The HAG Südosten & the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Belgrade, Agram (Zagreb) and Ragusa (Dubrovnik). 2012.

http://forms.claimscon.org/art/ERR-Looting-Yugoslavia-Oct2013.pdf

 co-authored with Wesley Fisher. Holocaust-Era Looted Art: A Current Worldwide Overview. 2009.https://www.claimscon.org/forms/prague/looted-art.pdf

co-authored with Wesley Fisher. Nazi-Era Stolen Art and U.S. Museums: A Survey. 2006.
http://art.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/U.S.-Museum-Survey-report-07-25-06.pdf.

 

Last update:  May 2024