Abstract
The Jewish Studies Library is a special library of Vienna University Library. When it was founded in 1966 the Jewish Studies Library, which was then a library belonging to the Department of Jewish Studies, received a gift of books from the Vienna University Oriental Studies Departmental Library. Due to the NS and SS sympathies of the former head of the Oriental Studies Departement, Viktor Christian, especially the books donated to the Jewish Studies Library had to be checked with regard to their provenance. Case studies discussed in the article concern the results of the provenance research with regard to the »Ahnenerbe loan« as well as Ludwig Feuchwanger, a present of the GESTAPO and further restitution cases (Belf bookstore, Wolf Krautstück). Second hand purchases in connection to the acquisition of looted goods in good faith or presents by the Jewish Community Center Vienna could also be established. Although only few looted books could be found in the Jewish Studies Library, the examples discussed in the article show how complex the holdings situation can be in a library for which the issue of looted books seems at first sight to be irrelevant on account of its foundation date.