ARCHIVES: POLITICS AND HUMAN AFFAIRS
The Archive will be available for research and education. We will be cataloguing, indexing and digitizing to the History of the 20th Century: official records, daily press, literary work, personal correspondences, memoirs and family photo-documents.
We are focusing on the documented history in the regions of interest: Los Angeles, East-Central Europe, Middle East and on the oral histories of a broad personal experience.
See also articles by our staff on Academia.edu and Academia and Academia Letters: https://www.academia.edu/50926698/UKRAINIAN_AND_JEWISH_VICISSITUDES_EAST_GALICIA_1918_1923_OBJECT_SUBJECT_RELATIONSHIPS_AND_INTERSUBJECTIVITY_Existential_Analysis
Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers
The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, and, audio recordings. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.
These documents were donated by Dr. Norbert Weinberg, his son, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and are accessible on line at:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502232?rsc=207716&cv=0&x=1796&y=1248&z=1.0e-4
Additional documents can be found at the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles
http://www.lamoth.info/index.php?p=collections/classifications&id=208
RESEARCH THEMES AND EDUCATION TOPICS
MAKING OF LOS ANGELES JEWRY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PARALLELS. JEWISHNESS AND AMERICANIZATION
JEWISH SUBJECTIVITIES IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: WHO THE JEWS SIDED WITH: CROSSED PARALLELS.
JEWISH AND UKRAINIAN SUBJECTIVITIES IN INTERWAR EAST GALICIA, 1918 -- 1939
UKRAINIAN AND JEWISH PERIODICALS IN INTERWAR POLAND: PRESS COVERAGE OF EXISTENTIAL SITUATIONS, 1918 -- 1939
ORGANIZED AND UNSOLICITED COLLABORATION IN THE HOLOCAUST IN STATE AND STATELESS NATIONS: JEWISH AND GENTILE PERSPECTIVES
The HOLOCAUST: ORAL HISTORIES AND DISTORTED MEMORIES: WHO WERE GOOD WHO WERE BAD FOR THE JEWS
JEWISH COURTS OF HONOR IN ALLIED-OCCUPIED GERMANY: REFLECTIONS ON JEWISH COLLABORATION: 1945 -- 1949
RUSSO -- UKRAINIAN WAR: COLONIAL WAR OF PUTIN OR THE WAR OF RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE
IF UKRAINE WILL EVER HAVE RELIABLE ALLIES: THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIAN AGGRESSION. THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE BUT INDEPENDENT UKRAINE.
Ukrainians and Jews in the aftermath of World war i
Academia Letters
ACADEMIA
Letters
Dr. Vladimir Melamed
Abstract
This chapter attempts to reify the vicissitudes of Ukrainian and Jewish political paradigms in the Time of a Ukrainian strive for an independent state in East Galicia, 1918 – 1923. The article analyzes geo-political realities as they were perceived by the Ukrainian and Jewish political establishments and public opinion. The course of analysis follows the line of existential borderline situations pertaining to each of the given community. These existential situations overall relate to the call of choice with regard to political and military alliances, electoral support and acceptance or unacceptance of the governing power (Poland). In conceptual terms the article elicits paradigms of mutual Ukrainian and Jewish mistrust, lack of compassion and often implementations of typical but not reflective clichés. Proclamation of West Ukrainian National Republic, the Battle for Lviv in November 1918, the course of Polish-Ukrainian War in 1918, 1919, the electoral campaign of 1922 for Polish Parliament (Sejm) and the corresponding mutual reflections, all in all comprise the contextual background, presented in this article. The article draws on the periodical of the Time, personal statements and memoirs and on the interwar monographs and collective works with regard to the Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish mutual vexations. Modern secondary literature on the subject has also been taken into consideration.
Keywords: Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Austro-Hungary; collective memory; historical narrative
ARCHIVE OF EASTERN GALICIAN PERIODICAL PRESSS, 1918 -- 1939
UKRAINIAN, JEWISH AND POLISH SUBJECTIVITIES, eAST GALICIA (WEST UKRAINE), 1918 -- 1939
The titular Collection comprises five historical collections of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish daily and weekly periodicals published in Eastern Galicia, Poland (present day Ukraine) in interwar period, 1918 –1939. What makes this Collection unique is that it serves to be a source for multi-disciplinary research and studies united by the common goal to facilitate studies of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish Subjectivities in East Galicia in interwar period. We have selected and categorized thousands of newspapers and magazines according to five historical themes that reflect ethno - political, national and social discourses. Each of five aggregated collections is a digital repository of its own right bringing to public view under-researched and often stigmatized topics of the entangled and perplexed relations between Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish communities. Comparative reading and analysis of the documents should serve the purpose of understanding the viewpoints, decision-making and public opinions that drive Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish national paradigms. Periodical press of this period is a highly valuable historical source allowing us to delve into national identities, vicissitudes of political agendas and often antagonistic to each other societal trends.
We have digitized a great number of the interwar periodicals ourselves and added also a significant number of digital objects available in public domain, originally hosted by several academic institutions in Ukraine and Poland. Most of the Ukrainian newspapers have been microfilmed and digitized by us, Institute for the Studies of Galicia (Halychyna), non- profit organization located in Los Angeles. We have also been collecting microfilms from the interlibrary loans of several American universities. Please note that the core of the initial collections comprises microfilmed materials from Vasyl Stefanyk National Academic Library in Lviv, Ukraine. We have been microfilming Ukrainian and Jewish periodicals from the original newspaper binders at the premises of the Special Collections of this Library.
In the result we have collected thousands of digital objects which have been categorized and preliminary catalogued according to our Project. Our goal is to create five digital collections and have them indexed on a collection and document levels.
