Hello, Those of you interested in the AJL Roundtable "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" program on March 24th might also be interested in the following program presented by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado on Sunday, March 13th at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time: "Keeping Jewish Heritage in Public Hands through Cooperation" featuring Dr. Yoel Finkelman of the National Library of Israel and Mattan Segev-Frank Keeping Jewish heritage documents in public hands requires cooperation between private collectors, auction houses, sellers, law enforcement, and research libraries and archives. To Dr. Finkelman, an adversarial relationship, in which private holders must fear social pressure or legal action, can have unexpected and unintended negative consequences. The recent purchase by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archive of pinkasim (community registers) serves as a case study. Mr. Segev represents the point of view of private individuals - Genealogists, Historians and descendants of lost Austrian-Hungarian communities whose books keep popping up in auctions around the world. While advocating, as Dr. Finkelman does, for cooperation between institutions and sellers in order to peacefully get these items to public hands without "scaring away" the collectors selling them is important, Mattan advocates for laws or regulations to compel whoever holds such artifacts to release them to the public domain, as it should not be the norm for institutions to rely on private individuals to donate our money for them to preserve these books. Registration: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jgsco.org/event-4638707Free__;!!KGKeukY!jsS_uaE2yb-YIj0M4xD1t-LtPRHzEpBEQczZV4qQ6HTPgCo-a3AmOxEBibrw5UAKnYI$ for members of the JGSCO; guests $5.00 Judy Petersen Library Director Congregation Har Shalom Fort Collins, CO
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