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- Title
The Inexistence of the Western Jewish Archive.
- Authors
Kaufman, Eleanor
- Abstract
The article discusses archives documenting Jewish settlement in the American West in the 19th and early 20th century, with particular focus given to the problems and limitations of archives as a means of representing history. The ways in which Jewish archives "withhold" from researchers including imperfect selection practices and difficult archivists are also touched on.
- Subjects
WEST (U.S.); UNITED States; JEWISH archives; WESTERN United States history; AMERICAN Jewish history; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2012, Vol 127, Issue 2, p375
- ISSN
0030-8129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1632/pmla.2012.127.2.375