About Hallel Yadin

Hallel Yadin an archivist and special projects manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which holds the world's largest collection on Eastern European Jewish history and culture.

Hallel Yadin is an archivist and special projects manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Hallel:

Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement" (U Georgia Press, 2024)

March 31, 2024

Books Through Bars

Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis
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Co-edited by Dave Mac Marquis and Moira Marquis, two activists with deep experience in organizing prison books programs (PBPs), Books Through Bars: St…

Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)

February 4, 2024

Hip Hop Archives

Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell
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Despite the vast popularity and cultural influence of hip-hop, efforts to archive its history are still in fairly early stages. Hip-Hop Archives: The …

Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)

December 23, 2023

War on Record

Yael A. Sternhell
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Yael A. Sternhell's War on Record: The Archive and the Aftermath of the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2023) is a history of the United States' gre…

Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)

December 16, 2023

Restless Archive

Simone Gigliotti
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The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the earl…

Matthew Dennis, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

December 10, 2023

American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory

Matthew Dennis
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The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after t…

Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)

November 14, 2023

In the Herbarium

Maura C. Flannery
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In In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (Yale University Press, 2023), Maura C. Flannery elucidates how herbaria ill…

Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)

October 25, 2023

Picture-Work

Diana Kamin
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How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin…

Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)

September 17, 2023

The Two Revolutions

Avery Dame-Griff
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Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgend…

Valerie Hébert ed.,  "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

September 7, 2023

Framing the Holocaust

Valerie Hébert
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Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), edited by Valerie Hébert, compiles essays…

Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

September 6, 2023

On the Digital Humanities

Stephen Ramsay
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Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of the p…

Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)

September 2, 2023

A Queer Way of Feeling

Diana W. Anselmo
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In A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (University of California Press, 2023), Diana W. Anselmo queers the earl…