Jewish Lives in the Cold War and Beyond

The Blinken OSA Archivum Jewish Studies Collection

Authors

  • Anastasia Felcher VWI, the Blinken OSA Archivum (the Archivum) @CEU, CEU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0223/ess_afel01

Keywords:

archives, communism, cold war, RFE/RL, press overview, mass media

Abstract

The Blinken OSA Archivum Jewish Studies Collection (the Archivum) at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary holds an important archival collection about Jew ish lives in East-Central Europe, with a highlight on the Cold War and beyond: the 1990s. Neither community archives, nor archives of Jewish institutions, the Archivum highlights overlooked histories of Jewish communities that the official media behind the Iron Curtain didn’t make public for political reasons

Author Biography

  • Anastasia Felcher, VWI, the Blinken OSA Archivum (the Archivum) @CEU, CEU

    Dr. Anastasia Felcher is a historian, cultural heritage specialist, and an archivist, with a particular interest in the cultural history of borderlands in East Central Europe, and in minority histories. Her doctoral dissertation (IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2016) focused on the politics of Jewish heritage and the memory of the Holocaust in the post-communist states after 1989. Since 2020, she has served as the archivist for the Slavic collection in the Blinken OSA Archivum  @CEU in Budapest, where she has curated Slavic, Jewish, and samizdat archival collections. During her research fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in 2022 and 2023, she researched Soviet Jewish samizdat as memory media and worked on her book Jewishness in Transition.

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Published

2023-11-23

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

Section

DATA & DOCUMENTATION

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Copyright (c) 2023 Anastasia Felcher

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How to Cite

“Jewish Lives in the Cold War and Beyond: The Blinken OSA Archivum Jewish Studies Collection”. 2023. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 10 (2): 166-75. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0223/ess_afel01.