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Juliet Flesch Materials for Jewish History at the University of Melbourne Library A paper for the Australian Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference 1994 by Juliet Flesch This paper is dedicated to the memory of Dr John Foster, Collection Management who did so much for Jewish Studies at the University of Librarian Melbourne Introduction The language options available cover there are two problems for both Hebrew, Syriac-Aramaic and Akkadian undergraduate and graduate research in Jewish Studies at Melbourne The literature options cover various this country. One is a language difficulty. University has a long history. Its original aspects of modern Jewish literature Many students, including advanced ones, home was the Department of Semitic including, as part of the Honours year, do not have any real facility in the Studies, which has changed its name The Literature of Destruction: Jewish languages of Western Europe and many several times over the years becoming Responses to Catastrophe. have considerable difficulty in dealing with primary source material in Polish, successively the Department of Middle The historical components of the German, Yiddish, etc. Eastern Studies and the Department of program cover ancient Palestine and Classical and Near Eastern Studies to, in ancient Egypt as well as Bronze Age The second problem of accessibility 1994, the Department of Classics and Syria and Palestine, Christians and Jews is that of Australia's geographical Archaeology. in medieval Europe and modern Jewish location. Not only are we a long way The disappearance of the Near East, history from the 18th century to the from each other (and students really or specific reference to Jewish studies Holocaust and Jews in the English- cannot easily travel between capital cities from the Department's name, belies a speaking world. A strong research for material for 4th year essays any more vigorous teaching and research program in medieval art also studies the easily than PhD candidates on restricted programme and signals the essentially illustration of the Jewish Bible. grants can) but we are also a very long interdepartmental character of much of way from the major archives in Israel, Within the Department of History, the work being undertaken. Europe and the United States. there are many other courses with a The rubric for the Jewish Studies strong Jewish content, most notably For our undergraduates, therefore, we Programme in the current handbook is as those which examine the experience of have striven to provide a good collection follows: migrants from Eastern Europe to the of primary source material in English, while for post-graduate research we have Jewish Studies offers an opportunity to United States of America and Australia. spread our net to take in material in many study the development of Jewish civilisation The Library has always acquired languages. Much of this has been in from its origins to the present. Courses are material to support these programs and designed to explore the Jewish experience microform, although, of course, CD from a range of disciplines - history, literature, changes in the emphasis of acquisition ROMs are becoming more common in archaeology, philosophy, ethnography and have reflected changes in scholarly this as in all other areas. social theory, together with study options in interest at the University. In this paper, I Despite the advent of newer classical and modern Hebrew language. shall focus on two groups of material, in technologies, microform has been and The Jewish Studies program is jointly an attempt to show both the breadth of offered by [the Department of Classics and our collections and their special remains the great transforming agent in historical studies in this country. It is the Archaeology] and the History Department. A strengths. full three-year sequence is available that does medium which has allowed not involve language work, though Hebrew The areas I propose to describe in undergraduate students hitherto (both classical and modem elements) is some detail are materials relating to unparalleled access to primary source available at all year levels. migration to the United States of material and permitted advanced America and the Holocaust. In both areas researchers to do much of their work ■ without travelling long distances and Archives of the Holocaust, edited by Island: an oral history of American pinpoint accurately the material which Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton, is immigration, a project which reproduces they need to see in its original form. described as an international collection of over 200 oral history interviews by the selected documents. Its 22 volumes However, the very bulk of the National Park Service and the Statue of include material from the Central Zionist microform files which have become Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation of people Archives, 1933-1945, in Jerusalem, the available means that they are expensive who passed through or worked at Ellis Israel State Archives, the Hecht Archive and cannot be bought by any but a few Island between 1892 and 1924. at the University of Haifa, the Berlin institutions. Luckily, since microform is All the major ethnic and national Document Center, the replaceable, it can be borrowed. The groups who sent migrants to America are Dokumentationsarchiv des collection of the University of Melbourne oesterreichischen Wiederstandes and represented, and the interviews with Library, therefore, is a resource of those from Russia, Poland and western several other European and American importance to the nation, not just the European countries will be of special repositories. local community of scholars. interest. As well as detailing the various European Immigrants and American forms of hardship and oppression which Society is a 28-volume set under the impelled them to leave their homelands, general editorship of Edward Kantowicz the interviewees describe the lives they Undergraduate and Timothy Walch which makes led in small villages or, less commonly, available several previously unpublished Sources large cities such as Moscow. The process doctoral dissertations. Among its of adaptation to life in America is also It is also worth mentioning that there volumes are a study of the politics of described, telling how the new arrivals are a number of printed sources which, Chicago Jewry between 1850 and 1940, a came to terms with the difficulties which although relatively expensive, are, I study of the evolution of Brookline, confronted them, often so much greater think, good value for undergraduate users Massachusetts and one on the New Deal than they expected. Schooling, living because they reproduce, in a handy and anti-Semitism in America. conditions, social life and work in format and often with illuminating Judaism in Cold War America, 1945- America are all covered. introductory comment, material which is 1990 is a 10-volume set of scholarly Another microform project, which widely scattered in the original periodical articles edited by Jacob Neusner, treating covers the period from the late 19th literature. Many of these are produced by of the experience of and challenges century to the 1960s comprises selected Garland Publishing and we may cite as confronting the third generation of materials from the Immigration History among the most significant for Jewish Jewish Americans. Research Center at the University of studies in general: There are several other such Minnesota. American immigrant America and the Holocaust, a 13- compilations. I have cited only the most autobiographies reproduces more than 50 volume set reproducing the recently acquired and most immediately unpublished autobiographical accounts of documentation for David S Wyman's relevant to the particular aspects of migrants from the major ethnic groups of The Abandonment of the Jews: America Jewish history addressed in this paper. Eastern and Southern Europe. and the Holocaust, 1941-1945, which An interesting collection of published reproduces a lot of scattered archival material is contained in the large project material in a handy format for early entitled The Immigrant in America. undergraduate use. Four volumes contain Migrants to America Reproducing books and pamphlets, this papers relating to the War Refugee collection is based mainly on the Board, others cover different and their Children resources of the New York Public repositories. We hold several distinct bodies of Library, but also includes some titles American Immigration and Ethnicity, material relating to Jewish migration to from the Balch Institute for Ethnic edited by George E. Pozzetta, this is a 20 America, among them firsthand accounts Studies Institute in Philadelphia and the volume set covering a wide range of of migrants themselves, documents of Immigration History Research Institute at immigration issues, including volumes government and community the University of Minnesota. on ethnic communities, unions and organisations on policies affecting these The collection is divided into seven immigrants, immigrant radicals and migrants and other documents of various units, covering specified ethnic or immigrant family patterns. kinds which describe their lives as they national groups. Including the period settle, often with great difficulty and at American Zionism: a documentary from 1789 to 1929, the two major waves some expense of their sense of national history, edited by Aaron S and Adrian L of immigration of the 1880s and 1920s and community identity, into the Klieman, this 15 volume compilation are
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