Wegens grote internationale belangstelling verschijnt dit academische document in het Engels.

‘Egodocuments’ is a term coined by the Dutch Jewish historian Jacques Presser in the 1950s. He defined them as ‘historical sourc- es in which the researcher is faced with an ‘I’... as the writing and describing subject with a continuous presence in the text’ and de- manded their integration into the ‘acceptable’, authoritative array of sources. Seventy years later, historiography in ...