A Time to Gather
Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture
Series: Oxford Series on History and Archives;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 March 2022
- ISBN 9780197563526
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 165x246x30 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 189
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Short description:
This book is the first systematic history of Jewish archiving activities in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine. It argues that collecting and preserving archives was not only about the past, but also about the future. A series of case studies showcase how the question of who could claim to ---own--- history led to contentious debates and struggles, both before the Holocaust and especially in its aftermath in the context of the restitution of Nazi-looted archives.
MoreLong description:
How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records took on potent value in modern Jewish life as both sources of history and anchors of memory because archives presented one way of transmitting Jewish culture and history from one generation to another as well as making claims of access to an ---authentic--- Jewish culture. Indeed, both before the Holocaust and in its aftermath, Jewish leaders around the world felt a shared imperative to muster the forces and resources of Jewish life and culture. It was a ---time to gather,--- a feverish era of collecting and conflict in which archive making was both a response to the ruptures of modernity and a mechanism for communities to express their cultural hegemony.
Jason Lustig explores these themes across the arc of the twentieth century by excavating three distinctive archival traditions, that of the Cairo Genizah (and its transfer to Cambridge in the 1890s), folkloristic efforts like those of YIVO, and the Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden (Central or Total Archive of the German Jews) formed in Berlin in 1905. Lustig presents archive-making as an organizing principle of twentieth-century Jewish culture, as a metaphor of great power and broad symbolic meaning with the dispersion and gathering of documents falling in the context of the Jews' long diasporic history. In this light, creating archives was just as much about the future as it was about the past.
A Time to Gather offers a fascinating and highly stimulating account on the centrality and function of the archive in the ruptured 20th century Jewish history. Based on an impressive range of empirical records the book provides epistemological and historical substance to the often acclaimed 'archival turn' in the Humanities.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Archival Totality in the Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden
2. Ingathering the Exiles of the Past? Bringing Archives to Jerusalem
3. An Archive of Diaspora at the 'Jerusalem on the Ohio'
4. Making the Past into History: Jewish Archives and Postwar Germany
5. Digitization, Virtual Collections, and Total Archives in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
