Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive

Student Research in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archives

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Student Research in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archives Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/11/2018 - 13:15

The Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries Special Collections, Archives, & Preservation offers a number of fellowship and student work opportunities in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections. The PHAJ Collections focus on Judaism and the Jewish-American experience from roughly the late 1940s to the present. The material collected aims to shed light on the religious, cultural, and social movements of American Judaism. Both graduate and undergraduate students currently work on a variety of projects in the PHAJ Collections. Check out our awesome students below!

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Jacob Flaws

Jacob Flaws is a third-year PhD student in the History Department studying under Professor David Shneer. His research focuses on the death camp at Treblinka in Poland and the spatiality of the camp during its existence. Jacob is utilizing source materials from three witness groups – German perpetrators, Jewish survivors, and Polish witnesses – to triangulate and re-conceptualize the spatial reality of Treblinka.

Jacob been a graduate student employee in the PHAJ Collections throughout the 2017-2018 academic year. His favorite part of working in the archives is the daily opportunity to expand his knowledge on two levels – first, learning about how archives work and the processes by which collections are organized, categorized, and digitized; and second, learning from the collections' subject material itself, which often is beyond his own field and consistently opens up new research avenues and ideas.

Ellen Gostling

Ellen Gostling is currently an undergraduate pursuing a degree in International Affairs with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. She hopes to pursue a graduate degree in Comparative Religion and is passionate about ideological conflict, which drives her research in the PHAJ archives. Ellen says, "What I love about the archives is that beyond all of the fascinating materials we get to use, all of the people working in the archives are intelligent and passionate about what they are doing, and they have inspired me to think about things differently." Outside of academics, she is an officer for CU Powerlifting.

Ellen was the inaugural recipient of the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Undergraduate Scholarship this Spring 2018. She is currently conducting research in the collections and working on creating a digital resource and research guide related to conversion practices during and after the Holocaust framed by Harry W. Mazal’s own experience.

Jordan Klevdal

Jordan Klevdal is a second-year master's student in the English Department with a concentration in critical theory and gender studies. Her current research interests include textual materiality, manifestations of nostalgia in the 20th century, and the gendering of memory.

Jordan been a graduate student employee in the PHAJ Collections throughout the 2017-2018 academic year. Her favorite thing about working in the archives is that whenever you start looking through a collection, you stumble across tiny, unexpected details. These could be anything from a scribbled note to an editor, to a funny post-it note, to an uncatalogued snapshot. "These personal traces really can't be cataloged and so they always surface as a surprise and bring with them a certain joy of discovery," Jordan says, "They are part of what makes the archives so vibrant and, in a way, alive."

Adrian Auchterlorie

Adrian Auchterlorie is an undergraduate student currently working towards a BA in Political Science and a minor in English Literature.

Adrian currently holds an undergraduate student position in the PHAJ Collections conducting copyright research for the digitized audiocassetes in the Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Papers. She determines potential copyright holders on digitized materials held in the collections, finds contact information for potential holders, and reaches out for confirmation and appropriate credit information. Adrian enjoys working in archives because there are so many treasures to be found and she always learns new things.

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Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Seeks Undergraduate Student Employee

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Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Seeks Undergraduate Student Employee Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/02/2018 - 10:43

Program in Jewish Studies – University Libraries – The Yesod Foundation
Post-Holocaust American Judaism Undergraduate Student Employee

The Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, in conjunction with The Yesod Foundation, are pleased to announce a new undergraduate student employment opportunity in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections (PHAJ). The student employee will conduct copyright research and clarification for the Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi audio cassettes and earn up to $3,000 over the course of the Spring 2018 semester.

The position requires 10-12 hours per week at $15 per hour over the Spring semester in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections, housed in the University Libraries Archives. This position will be paid hourly.

The student employee will be expected to:

Identify and document the copyright holder on all items
Find contact information for the potential holders
Reach out to those potential holders for confirmation and appropriate credit information, which will include confirming licensing information or making the items only available on site

The successful candidate will be willing to conduct research using the physical materials and the audio files in the collections in addition to the internet or whatever other resource may be necessary.

CU undergraduate students from all disciplines and backgrounds are encouraged to apply, Jewish and non-Jewish.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit a resume and a cover letter that describes your interest in working in the archive and any relevant experience or academic studies to the email below by Monday, February 19, by 5 pm. Students with work-study may also apply.

CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu

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Archivist Jane Thaler Published in The Rocky Mountain Archivist

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Archivist Jane Thaler Published in The Rocky Mountain Archivist Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/08/2017 - 11:51

Project Archivist Jane Thaler was recently published in The Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists' (SRMA) newsletter. Thaler, who works in conjunction with the University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives and the Program in Jewish Studies, is the driving force in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections. Each newsletter, SRMA showcases new and noteworthy archival collections in the Rocky Mountain region.

This month's featured collection is that of Alan Lew, a Zen Rabbi, author, poet, TV host, and much more. Lew's papers contain materials ranging from his coursework at the Jewish Theological Seminary, his unpublished poetry and short stories dating as far back as the 1960s, early drafts and manuscripts of his published writings, materials relating to his sermons and public speaking, as well as personal correspondence and materials relating to his life a s a rabbi and public speaker. Additionally, this collection contains material of years spent researching and writing his unpublished book on the history of his family, The Life That Ran Through Me, which he finished shortly before his death and the entire run of the Mosaic series.

Read The Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists' Newsletter

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Announcing the New Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Website

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:58:49 +0000

Announcing the New Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Website Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/12/2017 - 10:58

The Program in Jewish Studies and University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives are pleased to announce the launch of the new Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections website.

The website highlights materials held in the 21 Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections and enables users to explore finding aids, audio/visual materials, photos, and interact with the collections' materials.

The website also has information about the archival process as well as our other Post-Holocaust initiatives, including the biannual Embodied Judaism symposia, fellowships for graduate students and visiting scholars, and ways to support the Collections.

The Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections are archival holdings at the University of Colorado Boulder focused on Judaism and the Jewish-American experience from roughly the late 1940s to the present. The material collected aims to shed light on the religious, cultural, and social movements of American Judaism as well as on the various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations in the relevant period.

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Shneer's "Through Soviet Jewish Eyes" exhibit opens in Chicago, in Russian

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Shneer's "Through Soviet Jewish Eyes" exhibit opens in Chicago, in Russian Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/06/2015 - 15:04

To a packed house of more than 400 people, on Sunday, February 22, David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, gave the keynote lecture at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center for the opening of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust, the photography exhibition based on his award-winning book. The next morning, in honor of the Day in Honor of Defenders of the Fatherland, a Soviet-era holiday that once was called Soviet Army Day, Shneer gave the same talk in Russian to a crowd of 150 Soviet Jewish war veterans and Holocaust survivors.

This is the first time the show has been presented bilingually in Russian and English, and one of the few shows travelling the country in Russian. The Chicago Russian-speaking community warmly received Shneer, gave him materials that are now being deposited in the Mazal Holocaust Collection in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive, and made sure to let him know that his mother must be proud.

Shneer was also featured on local Chicago radio station, WBEZ 91.5, highlighting his new exhibit.

Read the full-length article about the opening

Listen to Shneer's WBEZ radio interview

On Wednesday, March 25 at 7PM (local time), Shneer’s new book, Trümmerfrau der Seele, about the Dutch Jewish, Yiddish singer and Holocaust survivor Lin Jaldati, will have its formal launch at the Berlin Jewish Community headquarters, Fasanenstrasse 79-80. In Shneer’s absence, Jaldati’s daughter and Shneer’s collaborator, Jalda Rebling, will give a talk about her mother’s life. This event will be in German.

This past Saturday, March 7 from 1PM – 4PM, CU on the Weekend hosted Shneer for a mini-course seminar exploring the new and growing field of Post-Holocaust American Judaism studies. This is the Program in Jewish Studies’ inaugural event at the new CU South Denver campus in Parker. Post World War II America is often characterized negatively by suburbanization and the rise of a bland consumer culture obsessed with accumulation rather than reflection. But it is also the period when the United States became the fertile petri dish for new kinds of Judaism. From Brooklyn-based Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism to 1960s ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Judaism and American Zionism, this mini-course examined American Judaism from World War II to the present. Professor Shneer will paid particular attention to materials now housed at the University of Colorado Library Archives and Special Collections Post Holocaust American Judaism Archive, which contains materials documenting this movement, from Arthur Waskow’s Freedom Seders to Zalman Schachter Shalomi’s early ideas about deep ecumenicism.

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Listen to CPR's Colorado Matters interview with David Shneer and Aimee Mazal Skillin here!

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:00:00 +0000

Listen to CPR's Colorado Matters interview with David Shneer and Aimee Mazal Skillin here! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/04/2014 - 23:00

CU Professor David Shneer and Aimee Mazal Skillin, daughter of Harry W. Mazal, spoke to CPR's Colorado Matters Wednesday, March 5 at 10AM about the recent donation of the Mazal Holocaust Collection. Listen to the complete interview here! http://www.cpr.org/news/story/cu-boulder-receives-huge-holocaust-archive

Help us make this amazing collection available to the public by giving to the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive Fund. Dontations can be made on-line here. Thank you!

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Gift of Mazal Holocaust Collection to Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive will draw scholars from around world

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:00:00 +0000

Gift of Mazal Holocaust Collection to Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive will draw scholars from around world Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/03/2014 - 00:00

The Mazal Holocaust Collection, considered the world’s largest privately owned Holocaust archive and the most significant U.S. collection outside of the Holocaust museums in New York and Washington, D.C., has been donated to the University of Colorado Boulder.

The highly regarded collection is comprised of more than 20,000 books and 500,000 documents, pamphlets, photographs and other materials, including original transcripts of the Nuremburg trials. Five thousand of the volumes are limited editions and rare books.

“This acquisition will transform CU-Boulder into a global center of scholarship on the 20th century Jewish experience,” said Professor David Shneer, the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and director of the Program in Jewish Studies. “By anchoring the university’s Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism with the story of the Holocaust itself and the destruction of much of European Jewish religious and cultural life, CU is now one of the only places in the world to be able to demonstrate how global Jewish life continued and flourished in the United States after World War II.”

The archive is the life work of Harry W. Mazal, a retired businessman from Mexico City who made San Antonio, Texas, his home and became an internationally recognized Holocaust collector and researcher. Working with numerous volunteers, Mazal dedicated his life to creating a vast repository committed to defending the voices and memories of the victims of the Holocaust around the world by promoting scholarly research related to Holocaust studies, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and bigotry.

Materials from the Mazal Holocaust Collection played an important role in the unsuccessful libel case brought by Holocaust-denier David Irving against Emory University Professor Deborah Lipstadt, a noted Holocaust scholar and historian.

“The Mazal Holocaust Collection is a unique collection of materials about the Holocaust,” Lipstadt said. “It will help make the University of Colorado Boulder one of the premier places for research on a myriad of aspects of the Holocaust. It is an amazing collection of documents which will be an asset to students at the university and researchers throughout the world.”

After Mazal’s death in 2011, his family wanted to ensure that his life’s work and legacy would continue to be available to scholars, researchers and educators around the world. A portion of the books from the Mazal Library has been donated to the new Texas A&M University–San Antonio. The rest of the library, including the highly valued archive and limited edition books, has been donated to CU-Boulder.

“The Mazal Holocaust Library was everything to Harry,” said daughter Aimee Mazal Skillin of Lone Tree, Colo. “It was his heart and soul and he made it his mission to debunk Holocaust deniers. His archive material was vast and CU has the capability to maintain, restore and share these valuable resources with the world.”

The materials were donated to Archives and Special Collections in CU-Boulder’s University Libraries and the Program in Jewish Studies. The collection will enhance scholarship and support research initiatives in a variety of disciplines and programs, said Steven Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

“I’ve been very impressed at how actively our faculty scholars have helped with this important collection,” Leigh said. “Professor Shneer reached out broadly across the campus and received tremendous support from so many of our people in all different areas of scholarship. The strong and uniformly positive responses that he received speak to the importance of the collection, as well as to its long-term positive impacts for CU-Boulder. The entire campus is excited by this generous gift.”

The Mazal Holocaust Collection will need a great deal of immediate attention and resources according to Bruce Montgomery, faculty director for Archives and Special Collections.

“The collection includes documents and rare materials that are fragile and require preservation -- making this a priority initiative at CU,” Montgomery said. “We anticipate considerable demand and interest and with supplemental funding, we hope to have a large portion of the collection accessible to researchers by the end of 2014.”

The Mazal Holocaust Collection will be housed within the Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism. The archive will examine Judaism and the Jewish experience through the lens of religious, cultural and social movements in America, as well as various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations from the late 1940s to the present.

The Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism includes the most complete collection of materials documenting the Jewish Renewal movement, including the personal collection from the movement’s founder, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, as well as rabbis Arthur Waskow, Leah Novick and Michael Lerner, who also is editor of Tikkun magazine. Together these collections describe the revitalization of Judaism in America since World War II, emphasizing the cultural, ethical and mystical traditions in Judaism and Jewish culture that blossomed in the postwar U.S.

Noted scholar Shaul Magid, professor of religious studies and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Modern Judaism at Indiana University Bloomington, champions ideas demonstrated by CU-Boulder’s Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism in his most recent book on American Post-Judaism. Magid will be a visiting scholar at CU-Boulder March 5-7 including an evening public lecture on March 6.

“One of Harry’s missions in life was education,” said Skillin. “The fact that CU has the resources to make these archives available to students and scholars alike promotes education of the Holocaust. We have no doubt that Harry is smiling from above and are grateful that his collection will live on and continue to educate.”

Editors: Photographs of part of the Mazal Holocaust Collection and David Shneer are available by entering the search term “Mazal” at http://photography.colorado.edu/res/sites/news/.

Contact:

David Shneer, Program in Jewish Studies, 303-492-8698 or 303-961-0894

Bruce Montgomery, Archives and Special Collections, 303-492-8698 or 303-961-0894

Thea Lindquist, University Libraries, 303-492-8698 or 303-961-0894

Peter Caughey, CU-Boulder media relations, 303-492-4007

Editors: Media may make arrangements to view a portion of the Mazal collection by contacting our offices at CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu.

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Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive

Student Research in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archives

Jacob Flaws

Ellen Gostling

Jordan Klevdal

Adrian Auchterlorie

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Program in Jewish Studies – University Libraries – The Yesod FoundationPost-Holocaust American Judaism Undergraduate Student Employee

How to Apply

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Archivist Jane Thaler Published in The Rocky Mountain Archivist

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Announcing the New Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Website

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Shneer's "Through Soviet Jewish Eyes" exhibit opens in Chicago, in Russian

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Listen to CPR's Colorado Matters interview with David Shneer and Aimee Mazal Skillin here!

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Gift of Mazal Holocaust Collection to Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive will draw scholars from around world

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Post-Holocaust American Judaism Undergraduate Student Employee