A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture by Jason Lustig
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Overview: How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues that historical records took on potent value in modern Jewish life as both sources of history and anchors of memory because archives presented one
way of transmitting Jewish history from one generation to another as well as making claims of access to an “authentic” Jewish culture. Indeed, both before the Holocaust and especially in its aftermath, Jewish leaders around the world felt a shared imperative to muster the forces and resources of
Jewish life. It was a “time to gather,” a feverish era of collecting-and conflict-in which archive-making was both a response to the ruptures of modernity, and a mechanism for communities to express their cultural hegemony.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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