April 2021 Actualities

April 14

Naturalization files in France

 

Claire Zalc reveals all the secrets and uses of naturalization files.

April 14

The migration files of the IRO

 

Finding a place in the world: Thomas Chopard explains the role of the International Refugee Organization.

April 14

The ITS archives

 

Thomas Chopard guides us through the labyrinth of the International Tracing Service (ITS) archives.

April 8

Book release: Adèle Sutre’s Géopolitique des tsiganes

Who are the Gypsies? What do Gypsy families from Auvergne, Romanian or Finnish Roma, German Sinti, Spanish or Camargue Gypsies, Italian Zingari, English Gypsies, Australian, American or Argentinean Roma, Turkish Tchinganés have in common?

Adèle Sutre helps you to find your way through this vast question.

April 7

Survivors, Collaborators and Partisans? A new contribution

The Western Galilee College hosts Prof. Omer Bartov for a discussion with Jan Burzlaff on “Genocide from Below: Rewriting the Holocaust as First-Person Local History”. The event takes place on ZOOM, on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 6.30PM French Time.

April 7

Tous au charbon?

Anton Perdoncin publishes an article on the relationship between professional careers, economic recession and immigration, as part of an issue on “Professional Mobilities” in the latest edition of the journal Genèses.

April 1st

A Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex Function for R

Aidelman, Ajdelman, Edelman, Ejdelman, Morgenstern, Morgensztern, Morgiensztern… you dreamed of a soundex function in R to compare and match these East European names? Anton Perdoncin & Pierre Mercklé did it!