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Dr. Gerben Zaagsma

Gerben Zaagsma

Assistant professor / Senior research scientist

Faculty or Centre Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Department Contemporary European History
Postal Address Université du Luxembourg
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
Campus Office MSH, E04 25-430
Email
Telephone (+352) 46 66 44 6208

Gerben Zaagsma holds a Ph.D. in modern history from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. His main research and teaching interests are modern Jewish history, digital history, and music history.

Within the context of digital history he is particularly interested in the epistemological implications of using new technologies in historical research, as well as the politics of digitisation and digitised cultural heritage. He is also the project lead and one of the editors of the portal #DHJewish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities.

Gerben currently works on two main research projects, both of which focus on different aspects of the history of knowledge:

  • A new book project explores the history and genealogies of digital history, set within the broader context of the ways in which technology has shaped historical research practices since the late 19th century.
  • A second project focuses on a (partly digital) reconstruction of the history of Yiddish publishing, (self-)learning and education in Germany, especially Berlin, since the late 19th century. This project is concerned with Jewish histories of knowledge, especially its transnational migrant dimensions.

Gerben previously worked as a researcher at the Public History Research and Consultancy Center of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He studied Yiddish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, before embarking upon his PhD research project at the EUI.

He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and an editor, web developer & researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 2013-2017, Gerben worked as a research fellow in the project The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations— Critical Edition at the former Lichtenberg Kolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen, where he was responsible for the annotations of a new critical scholarly edition of the diaries and conducted research on Jews in hiding in the Netherlands.

Gerben’s book Jewish volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War was published with Bloomsbury Academic in April 2017.

He joined the C²DH in August 2017 and was Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography until December 2020, when it merged with the center’s DHARPA team.

Gerben also serves on the Ethics Review Panel (ERP) of the University of Luxembourg on behalf of the C²DH.

For a full CV and list of publications see: gerbenzaagsma.org. Several recent papers and lectures can also be found on Zenodo.

Last updated on: Thursday, 09 February 2023

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2023

See detailThe Digital Archive and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2023, April 28)

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See detailDigitising History From a Global Context; And What This Tells Us About Access and Inequality
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Historical Transactions - Royal Historical Society Blog (2023)

See detailYiddish Periodicals in Germany - Dataset V1
Zaagsma, Gerben

Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2023)

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2022

See detailIntroduction: Handbook of Digital Public History
Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark; Zaagsma, Gerben

in Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark; Zaagsma, Gerben (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)

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Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark; Zaagsma, Gerben

Book published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2022)

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See detailDigital History and the Politics of Digitization
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in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2022)

See detailJewish History and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2022, July 13)

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See detailReview Fighters Across Frontiers - Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Francia-Recensio (2022), 2022(2),

See detail#DHJewish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities
Zaagsma, Gerben

Computer development (2022)

See detailJewish History and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2022, June 17)

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See detailExploring the History of Digital History: Setting an Agenda
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Scientific Conference (2022, June 02)

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Zaagsma, Gerben

in Zaagsma, Gerben; Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)

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See detailThe Digital Archive and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2022, March 10)

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See detailJewish Studies in the Digital Age: Introduction
Zaagsma, Gerben; Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel; Rürup, Miriam; Margolis, Michelle; Levi, Amalia S.

in Levi, Amalia S.; Zaagsma, Gerben; Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel; Rürup, Miriam; Margolis, Michelle (Eds.) Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (2022)

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Zaagsma, Gerben; Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel; Rürup, Miriam; Rürup, Michelle; Levi, Amalia S.

Book published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2022)

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2021

See detailIntroduction to Digital History
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2021, November 03)

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See detailKeynote lecture: Exploring Jewish History in the Digital Age
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, October 04)

See detailExploring the History of Digital History
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, September 20)

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See detailReview of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Age
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in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2021)

See detailExploring the History of Digital History
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2021, May 25)

See detailDigital Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, May 11)

See detailThe Digital Archive and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2021, April 28)

See detailMapping wartime Jewish diaries and their postwar trajectories
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, March 26)

See detailDigital history and the politics of digitization
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, March 10)

See detailExploring the History of Digital History
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2021, March 01)

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See detailRound table: Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
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Presentation (2021, January 14)

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See detailReview: Mapping Modern Jewish Cultures
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Reviews in Digital Humanities (2021), 2(1),

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2020

See detailSchumann's Eck - an interactive documentary
Camarda, Sandra; Santana, Dominique; Scuto, Denis; Zaagsma, Gerben

Computer development (2020)

See detailThe Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma
Hoffenberg, Elena; Zaagsma, Gerben

Diverse speeches and writings (2020)

See detailThe Helpers of Anne Frank - Recontextualising the Rescue of Dutch Jews
Zaagsma, Gerben

Scientific Conference (2020, November 24)

See detailHet Dagboek van Anne Frank en andere Joodse Egodocumenten
Zaagsma, Gerben

Conference given outside the academic context (2020)

See detailThe Digital Archive and the Politics of Digitisation
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2020, February 13)

See detailRoundtable - Combating anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe
Zaagsma, Gerben; Santer, Georges; Feldman, David; Moyse, François

Diverse speeches and writings (2020)

See detailDenis Scuto an Dr. Gerben Zaagsma iwwer den FORUM Z Holocaust: History and Memory
Zaagsma, Gerben; Scuto, Denis

Diverse speeches and writings (2020)

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2019

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See detailIntroduction: Integrating Digital Humanities
Birkholz, Julie; Zaagsma, Gerben; Zaagsma, Gerben; Birkholz, Julie

in DH Benelux Journal (2019), 1

See detail#DHJewish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities (prototype website)
Gori, Marc; Zaagsma, Gerben

Computer development (2019)

See detailForum Z: "Who is afraid of the Digital?"
Tatarinov, Juliane; Zaagsma, Gerben

Conference given outside the academic context (2019)

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See detailTracing the ‘Jewish Freedom Fighter’. The legacy of Naftali Botwin and the construction of a transnational cult of Jewish heroes
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Balázs, Eszter; Royer, Clara (Eds.) Le Culte des héros en Europe centrale 1880-1945 (2019)

See detailDigital History and the Politics of Digitization
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2019, July 10)

See detailRound table Coding Europe: decoding its history
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2019, June 27)

See detailDer hybride Historiker. Geschichtsforschung im digitalen Zeitalter
Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2019, February 18)

See detailInterview with Prof. Dr David Bodenhamer (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Bodenhamer, David

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

See detailInterview with Prof. Dr Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Hitchcock, Tim

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

See detailInterview with Prof. Dr Steven E. Jones (University of South Florida)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Jones, Steven E.

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

See detailInterview with Prof. Dr Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Prescott, Andrew

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

See detailInterview with Dr. Melvin Wevers (KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Wevers, Melvin

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

See detailInterview with Prof. Dr Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Zaagsma, Gerben; Winters, Jane

Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

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2018

See detailOnline Storytelling & Webdesign
Lucchesi, Anita; Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2018, June 26)

See detailWorkshop 'Strategies for Using Digital Sources in the Classroom
Randolph, John; Zaagsma, Gerben

Presentation (2018, October 26)

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See detailJewish responses to anti-Semitism in Paris and London in the late 1930s as European Jewish political history
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Bajohr, Frank; Pohl, Dieter (Eds.) Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935-1941 (2018)

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See detail#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
Zaagsma, Gerben

in Medaon: Magazin für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung (2018), 23

See detailHumanities Talk - Jiddesch Fräiwëlleger am Spuenesche Biergerkrich
Zaagsma, Gerben

Diverse speeches and writings (2018)

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See detailDigital Resources and Tools in Historical Research
Zaagsma, Gerben; Wieneke, Lars

in Kollmann, Stefanie; Müller, Lars; Reh, Sabine; Dane, Jacques; Ruiten, Tijs van (Eds.) Picture archives and the emergence of visual history of education. ISCHE 40 pre-conference workshop. 3rd workshop "Pictura Paedagogica Online: educational knowledge in images (2018, December 21)

See detailDigital picture archives in historical research and the visual history of education
Zaagsma, Gerben; Wieneke, Lars

Presentation (2018, August 28)

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2017

See detailJewish Volunteers in the International Brigades: What Drove Them?
Zaagsma, Gerben

Article for general public (2017)

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See detailJewish volunteers, the international brigades and the Spanish Civil War
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Book published by Bloomsbury Academic (2017)

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See detailFighting fascism and the passivity myth
Zaagsma, Gerben

Article for general public (2017)

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2013

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See detailOn Digital History
Zaagsma, Gerben

in BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review (2013), 128(4), 3-29

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