Joel Levi

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Joel Levi (born August 25, 1938 in Kfar Sirkin , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ; died June 15, 2014 in Ramat Gan ) was an Israeli lawyer.

Life

Joel Levi's parents emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. He studied law at the time of the Eichmann Trial in Tel Aviv and completed his legal clerkship with Gabriel Bach . Since 1964 he worked as a lawyer in his own law firm in Tel Aviv. He specialized in restitution proceedings for victims of National Socialism. Since the Washington Declaration in 1998, Levi has also been increasingly tasked with cases of restitution of looted art .

Levi was a founding member and longstanding board member of the German-Israeli Lawyers Association (DIJV / IDJ). In 2007 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class .

Levi was the initiator of the exhibition Lawyer Without Law on the Fate of Jewish Lawyers in the Third Reich and the initiator of the book Rightly Again Lawyer .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Aryanization of Jewish Law Firms. In: Lawyers and their history: on the 140th year of the foundation of the German Lawyers' Association. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150757-1 , pp. 305-314.
  • Epilogue. In: Barbara Sauer, Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal (ed.): Advokaten 1938: the fate of the Austrian lawyers persecuted between 1938 and 1945. Manz, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-214-04194-6 .
  • The role of the Jewish lawyers in the Weimar Republic. In: “The profession of lawyer is closed to Jews”: (§ 1 of the 5th regulation on the Reich Citizenship Act of September 27, 1938); Documentation for the exhibition “Lawyer without a Law - Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany after 1933” in Hamm from September 3 to October 20, 2008. Bar Association, Hamm 2010, DNB 1009508423 , pp. 36–78.

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SURNAME Levi, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kfar Sirkin , League of Nations Mandate for Palestine
DATE OF DEATH 15th June 2014
Place of death Ramat Gan