Introduction. Precarious Archives, Precarious Voices. Expanding Jewish Narratives from the Margins
Introduction. Precarious Archives, Precarious Voices. Expanding Jewish Narratives from the Margins

Summary/Abstract: When we began planning the conference from which this journal arose, our objectives were to examine two aspects of precarity in scholarship on Jewish history and the Shoah.2 First, we were interested in foregrounding archival survey or preservation projects focussed on material precarity – archival records in physical danger, records which had been neglected, lost, hidden, or damaged over time (specifically in the wake of or due to the destructions wrought by World War II), or those about which researchers simply did not or could not know, whether as a result of human intent or ignorance. We hoped to hear from researchers, archivists, and cultural workers who were working to stabilise, preserve, and bring to light such material and to receive intimations of the contents the material may contain: which insights might current and future historians gain by way of examining this “new” material?

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