A Community Makes Local History

The Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum is pleased to invite the public to A Community Makes Local History, a study workshop on collecting the city’s stories led by Yonatan Gur-Dick 
The workshop is intended for a group of 15 participants, who, over five weekly meetings during September, will be able to broaden the historical knowledge of the city, learn how information is accumulated and shaped in the context of a historical study and follow the process in which historical narratives are formed through the combination of “major events” and personal experiences. 
The workshop allows participants to turn their gaze to the near past by honing their skills in listening, seeing, gathering data, and analyzing the content displayed in the museum. They will also be encouraged to embark on their own story collecting activity in fields close to their hearts. 
The workshop is open to anyone interested in history, curious about how the museum’s data is gathered, and wanting to familiarize themselves with new tools of historical research and learn more about the people who make up the city.
Participants must be 18 and over.
 
Yonatan Gur-Dick teaches history and civil studies at Ironi Alef High School and is pursuing his PhD at the School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. 
Meeting program
Meeting 1 – The story collection, basic concepts, brainstorming
Meeting 2 – Oral history, primary sources and databases
Meeting 3 – Historical narratives emerging from the story collection
Meeting 4 – Group research, story analysis, data tabulation
Meeting 5 – Outcomes, gaps, summaries

* The price for digital card holders is NIS 550
* The meetings are in Hebrew

image credits
 The First Kiosk and the Union House on Rothschild Blvd, 2017. photo: Gershon 
 The First Kiosk and the Union House on Rothschild Blvd, 1910. Unknown photographer. Courtesy of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipal Archive