News stories about Israel often involve conflict—missile attacks, tension between secular and religious Jews—or tech startups and innovation incubators. While there is a definite thirst for information about Israel among U.S. Jews, there is only so much depressing news consumers can handle. Tech is great, but how exciting is the development of the USB port? That’s where Israel Story comes in. The popular, growing podcast is about the people of Israel, and their unique characteristics. Hannah Barg, 27, is a St. Louis native and an Israel Story producer. The Solomon Schechter Day School alum is now doing what she loves—mainly, storytelling. See full story here.
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Veterans’ Affairs Oral History Project
David Watt was working in a menswear store in Palmerin St, Warwick when he was called up to serve in World War II. He was 18 years old and, like the rest of his mates, thought the whole affair would be over in a couple of months. Mr Watt’s personal account of his time at war will be added to hundreds of other veterans’ stories as part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Oral History Project. For full story click here.
The Birth of NASA
The origins of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration can be traced all the way back to the Wright brothers, but the real story happened over less than a year. Read the story and watch videos here.
Ethnographic Refusal
“Historians must think through the ramifications of what they write, the stories they use as evidence, how those stories will be perceived, and the effects of their work on research participants.” Read this very interesting article by author Noah Riseman, Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University here.
Leper Colony on Peel Island
It was a shattering diagnosis – that turned out to be wrong. Yet this young mother spent 12 harrowing years in isolation on Peel Island leper colony. Read full story and listen to interview excerpt from interview with Phyllis Ebbage here.
Cannibal Island
Every year, a small group of locals travels the 550 kilometers northwest from this Siberian city to Nazinsky Island, in the middle of the Ob River, to place a wreath at the foot of a wooden cross. It is a gesture of remembrance for the victims of the horrific events that unfolded there in the summer of 1933. For full story click here.
Connecting with Australia’s First Peoples
Moving from Alice Springs to Melbourne to attend university, Rona Glynn-McDonald, a proud Kaytetye woman, was astounded to find how little people local people knew about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. For full story click here.
1918 Flu Pandemic in Ireland
Oral history has become important to my work on the history of this influenza pandemic in Ireland, to understand what happened to families. Without the human voice, the statistics for death and sickness from disease are dry, skeletal bones of the story. Newspapers add in the sinews, the connectivity showing how and when it arrived, and where it spread next, and how the government, the health system and communities were coping. Read the full story here.
Ukrainians Remember Holodomor
There were three phases of mass immigration from Ukraine to Canada. The first phase was from around 1891 to the start of WWI. The second phase from WWI to WWII. The final large-scale phase of immigration was post-WWII when large numbers of Ukrainian refugees, or displaced persons, arrived in Oshawa as the world faced a mass movement of human beings on a scale never before seen. For full story click here.
Koorie Theatre Project
The Victorian government is to announce funding for a major arts project celebrating the untold stories of Koorie women on stage. Creative Industries Minister Martin Foley will reveal details of the ILBIJERRI Theatre Company production Bagurrk, meaning woman, which will involve sharing knowledge of the lives of indigenous women living in Victoria before colonisation to now. For full story click here.