Swiss Social Archives Explained

Coordinates:47.3668°N 8.5475°W
Located:Zurich

The Swiss Social Archives (German: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, French: Archives Sociales Suisse) in Zurich is a historical archive, an academic library, a collection of documentation and a research facility specialising in social issues and social movements.[1] The Swiss Confederation recognizes the archives as the country's leading research facility for social issues and social movements.[2] The Social Archives run their own research endowment fund, the Ellen Rifkin Hill Foundation.[3] The SSA play an important role in communicating scholarship to the broader community. They have convened several exhibitions, published essay collections on Swiss social history and conduct lecture series, presentations and information sessions. The archives work with Swiss secondary and tertiary educational institutions, archives and libraries and with similar institutions abroad.[4] [5] [6] The SSA are a founding member of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI).[7]

Organization

Run by an independent association funded by the Swiss Confederation, the Canton of Zurich, the City of Zurich and other sources,[8] the archives employ about 20 historians, archivists, and librarians. The SSA's director is Christian Koller.[9] [10]

History

The Swiss Social Archives were founded in 1906 by Paul Pflüger, a social reformer, politician and pastor from the working-class Zurich district of Aussersihl.[11] [12] Originally known as the Centre for Switzerland's Social Literature and inspired by the Musée social in Paris, their aim was to document social questions. Early visitors included emigrants from Germany and Russia, notably Lenin and Trotsky.[13] During the interwar period, antifascist refugees from Italy and Germany frequently visited the reading room, and in the 1940s the archives assumed their present name. The reading room became a popular meeting place for Eastern European refugees from the Cold War. In 1974 the Swiss Confederation recognised the archives as a research facility,[14] and ten years later the archives moved to their present home at the Sonnenhof.[15] [16] [17] [18]

Literature

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bibliothek, Archiv, Dokumentation - Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv. Schelling. 30 May 2011.
  2. Web site: SBFI - Forschungseinrichtungen von nationaler Bedeutung.
  3. Web site: MERIL - RI Information System. Avedas AG.
  4. Web site: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (SSA).
  5. Web site: VSA - Verein Schweizerischer Archivarinnen und Archivare: Archivadressen. 11 May 2022 .
  6. Web site: Archives online - Informationen zu dem im Archivportal angeschlossenen Archiven.
  7. Web site: Home . ialhi.org.
  8. Web site: Betriebsbeiträge für das Schweizerische Sozialarchiv - Stadt Zürich. 9 July 2014.
  9. Web site: UZH - Historisches Seminar - Prof. Dr. Christian Koller.
  10. Web site: Personalie: Das schweizerische Sozialarchiv unter neuer Leitung. 30 October 2014. Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  11. Web site: Wörterbuch der Sozialpolitik : Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv . www.socialinfo.ch . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040821113320/http://www.socialinfo.ch/cgi-bin/dicopossode/show.cfm?id=541 . 2004-08-21.
  12. Web site: Das soziale Gedächtnis der Schweiz wird 100. SWI Swissinfo.ch.
  13. Web site: Was machten denn Trotzki und Lenin bei Ihnen im Archiv?. 6 August 2014.
  14. Web site: Zum Tod von Miroslav Tucek. 30 October 2014. Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  15. Web site: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (SSA).
  16. Web site: Zum Tod von Miroslav Tucek. 30 October 2014. Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  17. Web site: Selektiver Allesfresser. 7 February 2012.
  18. Web site: Querschnitt durch 100 Jahre soziales Wissen. 30 October 2014. Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

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