Hallel Yadin
I'm an archivist and writer in New York City. I often write about Jews and/or New Jersey.
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Book Contributions
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I contributed an essay on a Jewish farm settlement in South Jersey to Kerri Sullivan's New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State (Rutgers University Press, 2022).
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I contributed to the exhibition book Our Streets! Our City! (Interference Archive, 2022).
Selected Writing
Longreads
Smithsonian Folklife Magazine
Syllabus Project
NJ Indy
Metropolitan Archivist
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Reflections on the Role of Children in the Archival Record
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The Impending Closure of the National Archives at Seattle
New Brunswick Today
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Petition to Revise New Brunswick’s Sick Leave Ordinance Withdrawn
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After 2015 Fire, Anshe Emeth is Only Active Synagogue in Hub City
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Coalition Aims to Change Conversation on Rutgers’ 250th Anniversary
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Local Band Asks, “Won’t You Take Me to Funky Town?
You can find all my work for New Brunswick Today, where I was a regular contributor between 2015 and 2016, right here.
Exhibitions
2022
I was a co-curator of Our Streets! Our City! Self-determination and Public Space in NYC at Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY.
2020
I contributed to In Plain Sight, a digital Metropolitan Archivist exhibition on hidden jazz collections.
2019
I contributed to the “Climate Justice is Worker Justice” section of the Humanities Action Lab’s “Climates of Inequality” exhibition.
Selected Presentations
2021
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On preserving Google Drive comments, among other things, for the Princeton Preservation Group’s Susan Swartzburg Memorial Lecture series
2018
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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