Overview
- Description
- Articles and press clippings organized by Boruch Hager, a Jewish refugee in Argentina. Records relate to antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the arrival of Jewish refugees and survivors to Argentina. Included in the collection are indexes, clippings, photographs, and other materials. The collection shows the strong influence of the survivors and the impact of the memory of the Holocaust in all aspects of community life. From 1952 until the decade of 1980, the material was systematically organized in fourteen categories and arranged in enveloped labeled with category number, month and year. For each year, an index was compiled. After the bombing in 1994, the project continued with a shift in focus. Material from the 1990s is still organized by month and year but focuses on the AMIA bombing, antisemitism and other events that impacted the community. When possible, the folders were re-arranged following the original order.
- Alternate Title
- Kehile newspaper clippings named after Boruch Hager
- Date
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inclusive:
1958-1982
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Boruch Hager
- Biography
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Hager was born in Romania in 1898 and died in Buenos Aires in 1985. He arrived in Argentina in1952 with a group of refugee artists. He was the mastermind behind the press project and a key person in the forging of the postwar organization of Jewish cultural life.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Extent
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202,779 digital images : PDF and TIFF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged by fourteen subject categories: 1. Community of Buenos Aires; 2. Community affairs-Buenos Aires; 3. Neighborhoods, communities in the provinces, 4. Vaad hakehilot; 5. Education; 6. Cultural affairs; 7. Gests in Argentine; 8. Awards and tributes; 9. Deaths and memorials; 10. Elections in the Kehile; Argentine Jewish world; 11. Month of the Yiddish book; 12. Religious life; 13. Bibliographic news; and 14. Argentine-Israel relations.
Organization of files: Each folder name is composed by: a designation code: kh_number of subject_year_month_ serial number in case of several folders. For example: kh_4_1972_noviembre_2. Keeps inside the clippings selected in November 1972 on education, and is the second part. The index folders are named as shlisl (Yiddish for index). Each folder name is composed by: a designation code:kh_shlisl_year_serial number. For example: kh_shlisl_1955 is the first part of the index for 1955; kh_shlisl_1955_2 is the second part of the index for 1955. Additionally one folder is named “Acto de desagravio Ben Hamu.” This folder was not labeled following the same categories like the rest of the materials. Probably it was considered an outstanding issue, not related to the fixed categories.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Duplication of microfilms/scans for third parties and commercial use including publication of documents requires the written permission of Fundación IWO
- Copyright Holder
- Yiṿo in Argenṭine
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War (1939-1945)--Refugees. Jews--Argentina--History--20th century. Jewish refugees--Argentina--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Argentina--History--20th century. Holocaust survivors--Argentina--History--20th century. Emigration and immigration--Argentina--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
- Personal Name
- Hager, Boruch, 1898-1985.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yiṿo in Argenṭine
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Yiṿo in Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2018, in March 2019, and Sep. 2019.
This is an ongoing project.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-04-14 13:47:56
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