A New Article About the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
Jeremiah Lockwood has posted a new artcile about the KMDMP at Yiddish New York 2021. The “Dispatch from Brooklyn” series is an initiative of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience.
“The materiality of digital platforms moves all of the processes of research—gathering materials, analysis, discussion and debate with peers, research reportage—into the intimate space of the home. By embracing this intimacy as a feature of its research agenda, rather than looking at it as a problem that needs to be fixed, the KMDMP has been markedly successful in recruiting participants and putting them to work in ways that allow all participants to experience the pleasure of achievement as contributors to the group project.”
“This is a powerful institutional model and has already born successful outcomes. The presence of KMDMP at Yiddish New York was a bright and felicitous counter-narrative to the problems of COVID isolation and contraction of community. Even as we move forward into a post-COVID era (or period of waning and waxing degrees of crisis), it seems likely that the digital community model offered by KMDMP will remain a useful model for group projects.”
