September 2015

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People in EHRI: Laura Brazzo, CDEC, Italy

24/09/2015
Works for the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC), Italy
Involved in EHRI since May 2015

I received my degree in Contemporary history at the Università Statale of Milan. My thesis concerned the Italian Zionists and the Italian diplomats dealing with the question of the future of Palestine during the First World War.

My PhD thesis was in Political science and concerned with the relations between the EEC and the State of Israel and the construction of the "image” of Israel by the European Institutions from 1957 to 1973.

For almost ten years I was involved in the activities of the Chair of Contemporary History at the Università Statale in Milan and, at the same time, with the Commission of History of International Relations.

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On September 9 Slovakia commemorated the Day of Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Persecution

21/09/2015

Since 2000 Slovakia has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust and of racial persecution on 9 September. This specific day was chosen because of its symbolism: indeed on 9 September 1941 the government of the war-time Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945) issued Regulation No. 198/1941 Sl. z. on the Legal Status of Jews, commonly known also as the Jewish Code.

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EHRI Fellowship Call 2016-2018: More, Longer, and More Flexible EHRI Fellowships

21/09/2015

In the second phase of EHRI, that started in May this year, the EHRI Fellowships Programme has undergone considerable changes, all concerned with more flexibility. In the new programme, the call is not once a year, but has an open character, with cut-off dates to allow for evaluation. Fellows can request to stay between one to six weeks at the institution of their choice. This time no less than fifteen EHRI partner institutions offer fellowships. Although the EHRI fellowships programme especially would like to support PhD candidates with limited resources, fellowships are also available for researchers, archivists, and curators. Disciplines include historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists, conservationists, sociologists, musicologists, art historians, employees of memorial sites, and many more.

The EHRI Fellowships Call for 2016-2018 is already online.

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New Partner in EHRI: the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum

21/09/2015

In its new phase, the EHRI project has 23 partners, of which 11 are new. In this article, one new partner, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) from Lithuania, introduces itself.

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) is a national institution under the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania that collects, conserves, investigates, restores and exhibits the historical, material and spiritual heritage of Lithuanian Jews, traditional and modern Jewish objects of art and documents and objects connected with the Holocaust.

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Modern Antisemitism(s) in the European and Colonial Peripheries from the 1880s to 1945

14/09/2015
Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2015
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
Vienna, 30 November 2015 – 2 December 2015
Call for Papers

Studies of modern antisemitism have focused primarily on Germany, as both the country where the phenomenon is seen to have originated and where it reached its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust.

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EHRI Cooperates on Digitization Project Jewish Council Archives in Europe

08/09/2015

A consortium of seven European archive and research institutes, all involved in EHRI, received a grant from the Claims Conference for the two-year digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe. The project brings important – and in some cases still unexploited – archival collections on Jewish Councils and Associations from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Israel and Netherland together. This project will be carried out in close cooperation with the EHRI-project.

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Join EHRI’s User Feedback Group!

EHRI is looking for Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists

EHRI started its second phase in May 2015. In this new phase EHRI will sustain and expand its current work. More Holocaust institutions will be invited to participate and connect their collections in the EHRI portal, and new research tools will be implemented. These goals can only be reached in close cooperation with Holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists. For this reason the EHRI-project would like to invite interested holocaust researchers, digital humanists and archivists to participate in our User Feedback Group.

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EHRI Research Guides on Terezín and "Jewish Councils"

The aim of the EHRI research guides is to create comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guides through the dispersed and fragmented archival material and to empower further research. Using innovative methods and technologies, the research guides virtually link together data from different archives in different countries, which use varying methods of archival description and digital archival systems.

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Second Phase of EHRI Starts in Brussels

08/07/2015

On 29 June 2015, the second phase of the EHRI project officially started with a kick-off meeting in Brussels. Belgian EHRI partner Cegesoma hosted the event.

EHRI Presentation

On 26 March, the first phase of the project resulted in the Presentation in Berlin, where the EHRI portal, that gives online access to dispersed Holocaust sources, was launched.

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