LEADER 04392cam a2200601 i 4500001 283034 005 20220421154120.0 008 220216s2022 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 2021027795 035 (OCoLC)on1256589038 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dGZN |dOCLCO |dYDX |dOCLCO |dLHM 015 GBC1I4832 |2bnb 020 9780197563526 |qhardcover 020 019756352X |qhardcover 020 |z9780197563540 |qelectronic publication 020 |z9780197563557 |qelectronic book 042 pcc 043 e-gx---n-us---a-is---awba---awgz--- 050 00 DS134 |b.L87 2022 049 LHMA 100 1 Lustig, Jason, |eauthor. 245 12 A time to gather : |barchives and the control of Jewish culture / |cJason Lustig. 264 1 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c[2022] 300 ix, 265 pages ; |c25 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 The Oxford series on history and archives 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Archival Totality in the Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden -- Ingathering the Exiles of the Past? Bringing Archives to Jerusalem -- An Archive of Diaspora at the 'Jerusalem on the Ohio' -- Making the Past into History: Jewish Archives and Postwar Germany -- Digitization, Virtual Collections, and Total Archives in the Twenty-First Century. 520 "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture examines Jewish archives in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine and argues that historical records took on potent value in modern Jewish life as both sources of history and anchors of memory, precisely because archives presented one way of transmitting Jewish culture and history from one generation to another. Creating archives was one means for Jews to take control of their history, especially after the Holocaust when efforts at archive restitution removed looted archives from the hands of perpetrators. Such efforts also raised complex questions of who could actually "own" this history. This book contends that twentieth-century Jewish archival efforts served as a proxy for wide-ranging struggles over the meaning and control of Jewish culture: Whether in Israel's claims to be a successor to European Jewry, the reality of American Jewry's rising prominence, or the question of the continued vitality of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust, gathering archives was a means to assert dominance over Jewish culture by making claims of ties to the past and constituting a kind of "birth certificate" or legitimization of communal life. A Time to Gather presents archive-making as a metaphor with the dispersion and gathering of documents falling in the context of the Jews' long diasporic history. In the end, a rising urgency of archival memory in Jewish life and the importance of history's traces meant archives were powerful but contested symbols of control of the past, present, and future"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Jewish archives |zGermany. 650 0 Jewish archives |zUnited States. 650 0 Jewish archives |zPalestine. 650 0 Jewish diaspora. 650 0 Jews |xIdentity. 650 0 Collective memory. 650 6 Archives juives |0(CaQQLa)000264697 |zAllemagne. |0(CaQQLa)201-0392817 650 6 Archives juives |0(CaQQLa)000264697 |zÉtats-Unis. |0(CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 6 Archives juives |0(CaQQLa)000264697 |zPalestine. |0(CaQQLa)201-0421814 650 6 Diaspora juive. |0(CaQQLa)201-0013933 650 6 Juifs |xIdentité. |0(CaQQLa)201-0035323 650 6 Mémoire collective. |0(CaQQLa)201-0157120 650 7 Collective memory. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01739814 650 7 Jewish archives. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00982642 650 7 Jewish diaspora. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00982746 650 7 Jews |xIdentity. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983278 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 Middle East |zPalestine. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01207534 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 |iOnline version:Lustig, Jason. |tTime to gather |dNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |z9780197563540 |w(DLC) 2021027796 830 0 Oxford series on history and archives. 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS134 |i.L87 2022