Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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JewryThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Structure and Activity
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What is the Avraham Harman Institute
of Contemporary Jewry?

• ICJ was founded in 1959 by Prof. Moshe Davis
• as a HU graduate and research center
• devoted to multi-disciplinary study
• of Jewish communities the world over
• and their cultural and social phenomena
• in the 20th and 21st century.

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Structure of the ICJ reflects multi-faceted
goals and activities
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Thematic Divisions

• Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel
• Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies
• Jewish Themes in Contemporary Literature

• Jewish Demography and Statistics
• Sociological and Political Study of Contemporary
  Jewry

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Regional Divisions

• Jews in North America
• Jews in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
• Jews in Asia and Africa

• Jews in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet
  Union
• Jewish Communities in the British Commonwealth

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ICJ special collections support research
activities

• Oral History Division collection of taped
  interviews
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
• Jewish Demography Documentation Center
• Bibliography of ICJ publications

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ICJ Center for Computerized Research Services
implements and supports computer activities at
the Institute

• Computerization of ICJ collections catalogs
• Computerized access to publications of the
  Institute and its researchers
• Website generation and maintenance
• Instruction in uses of computers in CJ research
• PC support

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ICJ Annuals and Journals

• Studies in Contemporary Jewry (English annual)
• Yahadut Zemanenu (Hebrew annual with Haifa
  University)
• Jewish Population Studies
• Jews in Eastern Europe

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We hope you have enjoyed this brief look at ICJ
and its activities

• And will visit our site frequently virtually at
  http//icj.huji.ac.il/
• and in person

(http//icj.huji.ac.il/
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