Hallel Yadin
I'm an archivist and writer in New York City. I often write about Jews and/or New Jersey.
You can click here for my full CV, and here to contact me.
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
Smart Mouth
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Petition to Revise New Brunswick’s Sick Leave Ordinance Withdrawn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
On preserving Google Drive comments, among other things, for the Princeton Preservation Group’s Susan Swartzburg Memorial Lecture series
2018
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