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1media/Lew_Mosaic_1.jpgmedia/Lew_Mosaic_1.jpg2017-08-02T12:06:06-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95192519image_header4869562017-09-20T16:55:14-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95We do not have unfettered access to all of Alan Lew's thoughts, experiences, and feelings, rather, our understanding of his life is mediated by the words he left us with. Because of this, Archives and Autobiographies asks you to think about the relationship between Lew’s life, the records he left behind, and the history we can write about him. It’s important to remember that historians do not simply pluck facts from the ether. We have to find them. And, what we find depends, in large part, on where we look. In this exhibit, we have used information that comes from one of two sources: the personal papers that Alan Lew left behind that are held at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collection and his published works, which include autobiographical information and personal ruminations. Each source, however, should not and cannot be treated as an objective and unencumbered window into who Lew was. As such, we now turn to source criticism – a technique historians and other scholars use to evaluate the records from which they are gaining their information.
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12017-08-02T12:28:19-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95The Power of the Archives4plain2017-09-20T16:59:42-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95
12017-09-15T08:33:14-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95Lost Lives and Pieces of Paper6gallery2017-09-15T12:26:54-07:00Jason Hogstad7988bcf5504932f5632a74f40986b74d75094e95