Beyond the archive? Histories and memories of the Egyptian Jews on the Internet
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Dario Miccoli
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/42 Language Italian
Pages 13 P. 189-201 File size 1062 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2013-042012
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Starting with the 1948 Palestine War and ending with the 1956 Suez War, virtually all the Jews left Egypt and in most cases migrated to Europe, Israel and the USA. However, even decades after the migration, Egypt remains for them an unforgettable homeland and a much-loved lieu de memoire. This article aims to reconstruct how, in the last years, Egyptian Jews have historicized and remembered Egypt on the Internet. Looking at the websites of two Egyptian Jewish associations based in France and Israel respectively, it will become clear to what extent the Internet can contribute to there-narration and circulation of one’s past. Furthermore, the websites analyzed can be interpreted as part of a new kind of archive in which history, memory and autobiography mix together. Even though focused on a specific case-study, the article also investigates some of the challenges that historians are increasingly facing when it comes to the Internet and the usage of digital sources.
Keywords: Digital history, archives, memory, Egyptian Jews; France; Israel.
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Dario Miccoli, Oltre l’archivio? Storie e memorie degli ebrei egiziani in Internet in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 42/2013, pp 189-201, DOI: 10.3280/MER2013-042012