Munich's Monacensia hosts free conference on Jewish archives

The Monacensia in the Hildebrandhaus, Maria-Theresia-Straße 23, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference, "The Jewish in the Archive: Historical and Current Perspectives", from Thursday 22 October to Friday 23 October. The event accompanies the special exhibition "Literature & Stance: Rachel Salamander's Archive".

The conference looks at archives as places of preservation, organisation and remembrance. It asks what roles different forms of archive have played in modern Jewish history and what actually makes an archive "Jewish".

Sessions start at 10.15am and finish at around 5pm on both days. Most talks will be given in English. On Thursday 22 October at 7pm, Benjamin Balint will give the keynote lecture, "Sacred Scraps, Restless Papers: Jewish Archives from Geniza to Kafka".

The Monacensia is organising the conference with the Chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Institute for Jewish History in Austria. Funding comes from the Alfred Landecker Foundation, the Kuszner Foundation, the circle of friends of the Chair of Jewish History and Culture, and the Friends of the Monacensia association.

Attendance is free, but organisers ask people to register by email at [email protected]. The full programme is available at www.monacensia.org. More information on the exhibition can be found in the online magazine MON Mag at https://mon-mag.de/literatur-haltung-rachel-salamander.