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Urban Environmentalism and Holocaust Restitution(50:33)
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First, Yishai talks to Tsur — chair of the Israel Urban Forum, founder and chair of the Jerusalem Green Fund and head of many Jerusalem-based initiatives, among them Green Pilgrim Jerusalem — about using the unique attributes of the Holy City to maximize sustainability.
Then, Yishai hears from Schoenberg about his victorious, nearly 10-year legal battle against the Austrian government on behalf of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee living in Los Angeles, to reclaim Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, which was confiscated from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. The story served as the basis for the major motion picture, “Woman in Gold.” Schoenberg, who is also the president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and an avid genealogist, talks about the case and his ongoing fight to recoup historical Jewish items held by the Nazis.