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Scholarly works dealing with early Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust have mainly focused on documentation efforts, historiographical writings, testimonies,ÌýYisker-books, commemorations, and monuments, among other topics. In such works, the Jewish press has been extensively mobilized by scholars as a privileged source of information on communal initiatives and perspectives.ÌýIndeed, as means for theÌýcirculation ofÌýinformation on Jewish persecutions since the very moment when thesewere taking place, Jewish journalsÌýhave also become important vehicles forÌýtheÌýspreadingÌýofÌýknowledge on the Holocaust in the early postwar years. Nonetheless, if the relevance of the Jewish press as a historical source has been widely acknowledged, this media still needs to be approached as a subject ofÌýstudy in itself, alongsideÌýwithÌýother commemorative endeavors.Ìý

ByÌýtransmittingÌýa great variety of Holocaust writings in the early postwar years, the Jewish press has significantly shaped the understanding of the Jewish past within the communities it was addressed tothrough itsÌýmajor informative and commemorative role. Moreover, editors and journalists of the Jewish press worldwide very often adopted positions of their own with respect to the meanings of the past expressed in their writings. Hence, this workshop regards Jewish journals as vehicles for early Holocaust memory, and simultaneously as institutional actors with their own memorial agendas.Ìý

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QuestionsÌýproposed to be addressed by participants in theirÌýpapers:Ìý

• What wereÌýtheÌýcontinuitiesÌýor differencesÌýbetweenÌýthe wartime Jewish press (a free one in countries spared by Nazi occupation and a clandestine one in Nazi-occupied Europe)ÌýandÌýthe postwar Jewish press?Ìý

• Which topics related to the HolocaustÌýhaveÌýcirculated in the Jewish press?Ìý

• WhatÌýkind/genreÌýof texts wereÌýpublished?Ìý(Testimonies? HistoricalÌýwritings?ÌýFiction? Poetry?News?ÌýOpinion?)Ìý

• WhatÌýwere the specificitiesÌýofÌýtheÌýtreatment of the HolocaustÌýinÌýthe Jewish press, compared toÌýbooks?Ìý

• Which audience did the Jewish press reachÌýto,Ìýcompared to other printed materials?Ìý

• Who wroteÌýabout the Holocaust in the Jewish press?ÌýWas the readership involved inÌýthe elaboration of Holocaust memory?Ìý

• What was the editorialÌýpositionÌýof the journal(s)Ìýunder consideration? Were there contesting visions within the same journal?Ìý

• Was there a dialogueÌýbetween theÌýJewishÌýpress and otherÌýJewish or non-JewishÌýmedia?ÌýÌý

• How haveÌýimagesÌýprintedÌýin the Jewish pressÌý(pictures, drawings, cartoons)Ìýcontributed toÌýthe construction of aÌýHolocaustÌývisual culture?Ìý

• To what extentÌýwasÌýthe Jewish pressÌýtransnational?ÌýFor instance, can we speak of the Yiddish press as being always transnational?Ìý

• What were the particularities of Holocaust writings circulating in the Jewish press in languages other than Yiddish? Was the Jewish press able to reach a non-Jewish audienceÌýby using non-Jewish languages?Ìý

• HowÌýcan we appeal toÌýquantitative methods to study the place and evolution of the Holocaust as a topic in the JewishÌýpress?Ìý

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Organizers:Ìý

Malena Chinski (EHESS)Ìý

ConstanceÌýPârisÌýdeÌýBollardièreÌý(TheÌýAmerican University of Paris)Ìý

Simon Perego (LabExÌýEHNE/Sorbonne Université)Ìý

Miriam Schulz (Columbia University)Ìý