Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation: How Did Archives Emerge and Function in Times of Crisis?

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

 

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