Jaap Kloosterman
Profile
Born in Amsterdam in 1948. Came to IISH in 1969 to work on the Archives Bakounine, an edition of the collected works of the Russian anarchist. Head librarian in 1985 and deputy director in 1987, he became the Institute's director in 1993. In 2008 he stepped down to work on a project on the historical background of the Institute's collections, and a study of secret societies. As interim director of operations (2012), he is currently responsible for Collection Processing&Public Services and Digital Infrastructure.
He edited works of Mikhail Bakunin, Anselme Bellegarrigue, Carl von Clausewitz, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Nettlau, Anton Pannekoek, and Aleksandr Shapiro, among others, and translated works of Guy Debord. He chairs the review committee of Metamorfoze, the Netherlands' national programme for the preservation of paper heritage.
On this website, read
• Les papiers de Michel Bakounine à Amsterdam (.pdf, 133 Kb.) (1985/2004)
• An Unpublished Letter of Filippo Buonarroti to Charles Teste (.pdf, 524 Kb.) (1988, from International Review of Social History, 33, pp 202-211)
• De geheime instructies van de Jezuïetenorde (.pdf, 73 Kb.) (2000)
• Secret Societies: a very short history (2007, an e-resource)
• Hidden Centres: the rise and fall of the secret societies (.pdf, 241 Kb.) (2009/2010, draft conference paper)
• In Bebels voetspoor: Wouter Steenhaut en de IALHI (.pdf, 81 Kb.) (2009, on the history of collecting labour history sources)
• Working for Labour: three quarters of a century of collecting at the IISH (.pdf, 498 Kb.) (2010, with Jan Lucassen)