Abstract
Property’s role in postwar justice has been dominated primarily by litigation, with its emphasis on the restitution of valuable cultural or financial goods. The prominence of such litigation, however, has eclipsed a far more common experience of property, namely inheritance--the grounds of a social rather than a public or legal realm. With the recent Israeli documentary The Flat as its case study, this article proposes to shift the focus on postwar property to ownership’s other life, that of the passing on of trivial things outside the public interest. The sheer volume of these ordinary things opens the door to a different understanding of justice, one invested in the excess and unpredictability of property, yet still unable to shed fully the adversarial tenor that has largely constituted our sense of ownership after the Holocaust.
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