MEMORY IN ACTION: EMBRACING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
The Institute for Research, Preservation and Analysis of Existential Situations
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ARCHIVE OF EAST 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 East 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, the Institute for Research, Preservation and Analysis of Existential Situations, 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 collection and document levels.
Some of our documents for UKRAINIAN, JEWISH AND POLISH SUBJECTIVITIES, eAST GALICIA (WEST UKRAINE), 1918 -- 1939
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About MEMORY IN ACTION: EMBRACING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
Our Directors and Advisors
Our Directors and Advisors
Our Directors and Advisors
Directors:
Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg,President and CEO of Research and Education, Rabbi of Hollywood Temple Beth El
For his background go to:
Dr. Vladimir Melamed, Chief Executive Officer, noted Historian and Researcher of Modern European History
For his background:
Bill J. Greenberg, Director for Technology
and Marketing , who brings his experience in web technology and archiving documents.
President of Net Data Systems, Inc.
Advisors:
Richard Hirschhaut-expert on Jewish communal affairs
Regional Director, American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles
https://www.ajc.org/bio/richard-s-hirschhaut
Douglas Workman, Technical Advisor
Edward Melamed, Content Manager
He graduated from Columbia University with degree in Psychology. His work experience includes applied research at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California
Archives and Collections
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The Online Archives will be available for research and education. We will be cataloguing, indexing and digitizing the documents for our Projects: 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 broader personal experience.
See also articles by our staff on Academia.edu and Academia and Academia Letters in this regard: https://www.academia.edu/50926698/UKRAINIAN_AND_JEWISH_VICISSITUDES_EAST_GALICIA_1918_1923_OBJECT_SUBJECT_RELATIONSHIPS_AND_INTERSUBJECTIVITY_Existential_Analysis
Article and Essays
Our Directors and Advisors
Literary and Arts Section
From Academia Letters
ACADEMIA
Letters
Dr. Vladimir Melamed
Keywords: Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Austro-Hungary; collective memory; historical narrative
Other Articles and Essays
https://independent.academia.edu/VMelamed
Literary and Arts Section
A Visual History of LA Jewry
Literary and Arts Section
Literature of European and American Modernism: literary and comparative analysis
Polish-Jewish Literature: Literature in Polish written by Jews
Polish modernist literature by Jewish-Polish authors
Existential Central European Literature in German before and after the First World War
The Art of Weimar Republic and the European reflections
Bruno Schulz, Polish-Jewish writer and artist. Explore his inner circle of the non-ordinary world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/02/bruno-schulz-nocturnal-apparitions-benjamin-balint/
Joseph Roth, writer and philosopher. He was a man of few possessions and a haunted, lonely mind, whose life stands out for unrepentant self-destruction.
Hans Fallada, modernist literature in the Third Reich
https://lithub.com/hans-fallada-the-anti-nazi-writer-who-reluctantly-served-the-reich/
Albert Camus, Existential philosopher and author
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/05/albert-camus-a-good-man/640286/
Cinematic Discourse
A Visual History of LA Jewry
A Visual History of LA Jewry
Independent
Cinematic Representation of Existential Pages of Human Experience in the 20th century
Ida, Drama, 2014, Director Pawel Pawlikowski, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaXwufbOlc
Son of Saul, Drama, 2015, Director Laszlo Nemes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ktMOyfD8k
Wolyn (Hatred), Drama, 2016, Director Wojcech Smarzowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-zOOjTO7U&t=246s
Pianist, Drama, 2002, Director Roman Polanski
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pianist+film+
Ashes and Diamonds, Drama, 1958, Director Andrzej Waida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqhCAZSo3Y
The Zone of Interest, Drama, 2024, Director Jonathan Glazer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vfg3KkV54
Golda, 2023, Biographical Drama
Director Guy Nativ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJETvSNa178
A Visual History of LA Jewry
A Visual History of LA Jewry
A Visual History of LA Jewry
Enjoy a Tour of Historic Hollywood Temple Beth El
In 1851, the new Jewish settlers organized in Los Angeles a congregation Beth El, but they did not have neither a cantor or Rabbi and assembled for religious services only on New Year and the day of Atonement (I.J. Benjamin, Three Years in America, 1859 - 1862, trans. Charles Reznikoff (Philadelphia, 1956), II, 101.
Hollywood Temple Beth El, the first synagogue of Hollywood, was founded just as the burgeoning film industry was setting roots in Los Angeles in 1922.
In 1952, the members of Hollywood Temple Beth El built the magnificent edifice at the corner of N Crescent Heights and Fountain, in the heart of what would become the City of West Hollywood.It was designed by noted architect, Harry Hiller, and it has since been on the tour route of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for its unique design. It seems to have been influenced by artist depictions of the ancient Temple of Solomon in JerusalemThe structure also houses three sets of stained glass windows depicting the twelve tribes. The large windows in the Main Sanctuary were crafted by Francis J. Dunham in 1967. The most recent set, on the doors to the sanctuary lobby, were designed by Joe Young, architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Pan-Pacific Park.The magnificent structure now serves as the headquarters of the Iranian American Jewish Federation.
This historic building has served as a social and communal home for people in the West Hollywood and Hollywood Hills environs for over a century.
For a stunning 360 degree visual of our Main Sanctuary, go to:https://synagogues-360.anumuseum.org.il/gallery/hollywood-temple-beth-el/
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Dr. Vladimir Melamed
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Dr. Vladimir Melamed
Online archive: Holocaust Museum LA
Dr. Vladimir Melamed
Online Archive: New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
Geopolitical Observer
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Russo-Ukrainian War.
If Ukraine have reliable allies
European Union and NATO: if there will the new leaderships
Institute for the Study of War
https://www.understandingwar.org/
Israel-Hamas War
Israeli and Geopolitical Perspective
American Politics, or American Political Business
Bloomberg Politics
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The Economist
Discussions and Discourses
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Memory in Action: Lecture Series
Themes for the future pennels and discussions:
Anticipatory Anxiety: Literary and Cinematic Models
Does anti-semitism stands for anti-Jewishness: social and political dimensions
Collaboration in the Holocaust:
Everlasting existential discourse
DISCOURSE AND PERSPECTIVES
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1149584349412544
Memory in Action: Lecture Series
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Memory in Action: Lecture Series
Future Topics:
Biblical History: Modern Historical Narrative
Jewish - Gentile Discourse in the Context of Ethno-National and Political Developments in Los Angeles: from the Civil War to the end of the Cold War
Temple Beth El as a Reflection on Social, Economic and Cultural Experience of the Jews in Los Angeles : 1920s -- 1990s
Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian anti-colonial national narrative versus Putin's postcolonial expansionism.
Breaking the Russian Geopolitical Dominance
History of Jews in Los Angeles, 19th --20st century century
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
This is the History to be written yet
Preliminary tenets and conclusions:
Limited historiography on the Subject
Vague categorization: Cultural or Political History?
History of the Institutions, Societies or Religious organizations?
Integration, disintegration and unification on the notion of American patriotism and support for Israel
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
THEMES OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Architecture of the Final Solution
Collaboration with Nazi-German administration and the role of Local administrations
Judenraete (Jewish Councils) and Jewish order police in the ghettos: phenomenon of survival
To survive or to resist?
Oral Histories of the Holocaust
The Genocides: Memories and Politics
501 C Non-Profit Organization
Help Our Cause
- Online digital archive for Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish up to to the Holocaust
- Documenting the Jewish experience in Los Angeles
- Geopolitical analysis of media outlets regarding the Russo-Ukrainian, Middle East and American political reaction
- Facilitating the integration of recent East European immigrants to US