Table of Contents

1. Jewish Migration and the Archive: Introduction 2. Reading between the lines: artistic approaches to the family archive 3. ‘Personal letters – to keep’: managing the emotions of forced migration 4. Smell and memory as Jewish archives: the case of Russian Jewish writers 5. Heritage centres in Israel: Depositories of a lost identity? 6. Means of transport and storage: suitcases and other containers for the memory of migration and displacement 7. Private archives and public lives: the migrations of Alexander Weissberg and the Polanyi archives 8. The making of a South African Jewish activist: the Yiddish diary of Ray Alexander Simons, Latvia, 1927 9. Harvard man, American dough boy, Mississippi Jew: the papers of Samuel (Sam) Leyens Switzer in Virginia

About the Author

James Jordan is Karten Lecturer at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. He is currently researching the role and representation of Jews in British television (1936-1979).


Lisa Leff is an Associate Professor at American University, Washington D.C., USA. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust.


Joachim Schlör is the current director of the Parkes Institute and Professor for Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. His book on the Rosenthal family’s emigration from Heilbronn/Germany to England will be published in summer 2015.