HISTORICAL ARCHIVE: NEW DONATIONS
El Historical Archive of Eivissa has received two new donations of documentation to enrich the Enric Fajarnés i Tur Fund, Fajarnés provided by Enrique Ribas, and the Fund Isidor Macabich, given by Isidor Marí. Thus, He has celebrated the International Archives Day.
El International Archives Day it has been celebrated since the year 2008. El 9 June coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the UNESCO International Council on Archives which took place in 1948. El 10 de noviembre de 2011 UNESCO approved the Universal Declaration on Archives. According to this statement “Archives record decisions, actions and memory. They constitute a unique and irreplaceable heritage that is transmitted from generation to generation.”.
Isidor Marí has provided documentation of the canon and archivist Isidor Macabich, that offers new light on both your personal dimension, like his talent for drawing with unpublished samples of some of his works, as well as dynamizer of the Ibizan culture in his youth. Includes various documentation: Photographs, personal and family documents, drawings, Correspondence, manuscripts of plays and poetry, the weekly El Sábado, entre otros. Isidor Marí is currently writing the biography of Isidor Macabich. A part of this biography has already been advanced with the publication of the Eivissa magazine where he has published the articles corresponding to the stages of the early years and youth of Macabich.
This new documentation provided by Marí about Isidor Macabich, a figure “capital of the historiography of Eivissa and Formentera”, in the words of those in charge of the Archive that allows you to go beyond his best known character and discover other aspects of his life.
Enrique Fajarnés Ribas, Meanwhile, has donated a set of 90 documents of Enrique Fajarnés i Tur, among which are drafts, notes and the originals of a work entitled ‘Slaves on the island from the 13th to the 18th century’, that remains unpublished and that he had written for a paper. After the classification and ordering of this documentation by the Archive, work is being done with the publication and edition of this work. Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza has been commissioned to comment on and edit this unfinished and unpublished booklet on slaves.
The donation includes personal correspondence and other materials that give an idea of the dynamism of Macabich, like the texts of small plays for the Social Action Group of which he was part in his youth.
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