Early Modern Workshop: Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish Community and its Records

Date: 

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 4:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center Rm. 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University), "Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish Community and its Records." 
The formation of archives has become the object of critical historical inquiry. This lecture explores dimensions of Jewish communal archives from the early modern period with particular emphasis on the rich archive of the Hamburg-Altona community and its fate. 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center and the Early Modern History Workshop

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