Hallel Yadin
I'm an archivist and writer in New York City. I often write about Jews and/or New Jersey.
Currently
Working as an archivist and special projects manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, finishing up my M.L.I.S., and organizing with the Prison Library Support Network.
Selected Writing
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On great archives-related reads (Longreads)
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On Yiddish advice radio (Smithsonian Folklife Magazine)
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On the closure of the National Archives at Seattle (Metropolitan Archivist)
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On the meaning of art at the New Jersey College for Women (What Exit?)
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On the last synagogue in Hub City (New Brunswick Today)
Anthology
I contributed an essay about a Jewish farm commune in South Jersey to New Jersey Fan Club: 40 Voices Celebrate the Garden State, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.
Digital
I contributed to In Plain Sight, a digital Metropolitan Archivist exhibition on hidden jazz collections.
I contributed to the “Climate Justice is Worker Justice” section of the Humanities Action Lab’s “Climates of Inequality” exhibition.
Selected Presentations
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On preserving Google Drive comments, among other things, for the Princeton Preservation Group’s Susan Swartzburg Memorial Lecture series
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On Jewish life and antisemitism in the history of the New Jersey College for Women, supported by the dean of Douglass Residential College in honor of the College’s centennial
Interviews
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Keith Haas on the Jersey DIY Scene (Stacks on Stacks)
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Seth Montalvo on Jersey City (Stacks on Stacks)
Subject Guides & Bibliographies
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Public History and Archives Publishing in the Archives Profession
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Environmental History Guide Center for Jewish History
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YIVO Digital Assets Guide Center for Jewish History
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Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings Center for Jewish History