Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation: How Did Archives Emerge and Function in Times of Crisis?
Tel Aviv University
Monday, June 3, 2024 | Room 496, Gilman Building
12:30 - 13:00 Reception
13:00 - 14:00 Opening Session
Greetings:
Iris Rachamimov, Head of the Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Ruti Avramovitz, Israel State Archivist
Introduction:
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University
Keynote:
Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University
The Archive and the Law: Variations on a Theme
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 - 16:30 First Session: Archives of Civil Wars, Archives in Civil Wars
Chair - Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University
Yael Sternhell, Tel Aviv University
War on Record: The Archive and the Making of Civil War History
Susanne Zepp, University of Duisburg-Essen
Navigating Complex Narratives: Memories by Volunteers of the Spanish Civil War Preserved by the SAPMO Collection in the German Federal Archives
Irit Back, Tel Aviv University
From the Glorious Mali Empire to the Dysfunctional Republic Mali: The Fate of the Archives of Timbuktu
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Second Session: Archives of the Russian Revolution and Postrevolutionary Political Emigration
Chair - Igal Halfin, Tel Aviv University
Semion Lyandres, University of Notre Dame
Documenting Russia's February 1917 Revolution: M.A. Polievktov and the First Oral Histories of the Fall of Tsarism
Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University
Archiving the Revolution: The 1917 Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry against the Tsarist Regime
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University
The Russian Historical Archive Abroad and Its Role in the Formation of the Russian Émigré Community in Interbellum Europe
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 | Wiener Library \ Room 496, Gilman Building
10:00 - 10:30 Visit to the archive of The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Third Session: Documenting War Crimes | Wiener Library
Chair - Alex Valdman, Tel Aviv University
Roni Stauber, Tel Aviv University
Documenting the Crimes: Cooperation between Jews and Germans to Punish Nazi Criminals
Josefine Langer Shohat, Humboldt University of Berlin and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Wiener Library’s Early Post-War Years and its Transnational Contacts, 1945-1961
Alexander Avram, Yad Vashem Archives
Documenting and Commemorating the Names of the Shoah Victims at Yad Vashem
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:30 Fourth Session: From the Records of the Shoah to the Archives of Modern Jewish History | Room 496, Gilman Building
Chair - Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University and Yad Vashem
Samuel D. Kassow, Trinity College
Archives as Cultural Resistance: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto
Susanne Urban, University of Marburg
Collecting, Tracing, Identifying: The Early Years of the International Tracing Service
Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University
Chronicling Catastrophe: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Fifth Session: Archives and State | Room 496, Gilman Building
Chair - Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University
Noa Barak, Tel Aviv University
Monopoly on Truth: The Israel State Archives and the Narrative Wars of the 1980's
Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton University
Did the IDF Seize the Palestinian National Archives in September 1982?
Yacov Falkov, Tel Aviv University
Abandoned State Secrets: To Study KGB History through Archives in the Post-Soviet Space, in the West and in Israel
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | Room 496 \ Room 449, Gilman Building
08:30 - 09:00 Gathering
09:00 - 10:30 Sixth Session: Archives between the Personal and Political | Room 496, Gilman Building
Chair - Masha Zolotarevsky-Bear, Yad Tabenkin Center
Dina Fainberg, City University of London
Personal is Professional: The Private Archives of Cold War Correspondents
Abigail Vollach, Tel Aviv University
"How Many Rubles Do American Archivists Earn Annually?" Soviet and American Transnational Archival Networks during the 1980's
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Seventh Session: Archives and Society | Room 496, Gilman Building
Chair – On Barak, Tel Aviv University
Maayan Nahari, Tel Aviv University
“Where Are the Children? Open the Files!” Public Voice and Archival Silence in the Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair
Yasmin Inbar, The LGBTQ Archive, TAU
The Challenges and Opportunities of Establishing a LGBTQ Archive in Israel
Roni Mikel-Arieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Documenting Trauma: Collecting Records of the October 7 Attacks and the War That Followed
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:30 Eighth Session: Archives in Exile | Room 449, Gilman Building
Chair - Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University
Anastasia Glazanova, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem
A Home for Jewish Archives: The History and the Current Activities of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Nikita Lomakin, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Augias-Data
Transformation of the Memorial Archives: Will the Digital “Lieu de mémoire” Work?
Ilya Veniavkin, Russian Independent Media Archive – RIMA, New York
Preservation of the Legacy of Independent Journalism through the Russian Independent Media Archive
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Round-table | Historians and Archives: Concluding Discussion
Moderator - Roni Stauber
Participants:
Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University and Yad Vashem
Susanne Urban, University of Marburg
Dror Sharon, Tel Aviv University
Thursday, June 6, 2024
10:00 - 13:00 Visit to the Archive of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
