1st Edition

Jewish Migration and the Archive

Edited By James Jordan, Lisa Leff, Joachim Schlör Copyright 2016
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Migration is, and has always been, a disruptive experience. Freedom from oppression and hope for a better life are counter-balanced by feelings of loss – loss of family members, of a home, of personal belongings. Memories of the migration process itself often fade quickly away in view of the new challenges that await immigrants in their new homelands. This volume asks, and shows, how migration... Read more

1. Jewish Migration and the Archive: Introduction James Jordan, Lisa Leff and Joachim Schlör

2. Reading between the lines: artistic approaches to the family archive Katy Beinart

3. ‘Personal letters – to keep’: managing the emotions of forced migration Esther Saraga

4. Smell and memory as Jewish archives: the case of Russian Jewish writers Henrietta Mondry

5. Heritage centres in Israel: Depositories of a lost identity? Hilda Nissimi

6. Means of transport and storage: suitcases and other containers for the memory of migration and displacement Joachim Schlör

7. Private archives and public lives: the migrations of Alexander Weissberg and the Polanyi archives Judith Szapor

8. The making of a South African Jewish activist: the Yiddish diary of Ray Alexander Simons, Latvia, 1927 Veronica Belling

9. Harvard man, American dough boy, Mississippi Jew: the papers of Samuel (Sam) Leyens Switzer in Virginia Maura Hametz

Biography

James Jordan is Karten Lecturer at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. He is currently researching the role and representation of Jews in British television (1936-1979).

Lisa Leff is an Associate Professor at American University, Washington D.C., USA. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust.

Joachim Schlör is the current director of the Parkes Institute and Professor for Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. His book on the Rosenthal family’s emigration from Heilbronn/Germany to England will be published in summer 2015.