Seder hagadah shel pesaj: Im pitron belashon sefardi. Livorno, Shelomo Belforte, 1852 © Sephardi Museum, Toledo featured in the Judaica Europeana Newsletter, no. 3, 2011.
Europeana Open Culture 2010: Highlights, Tweets & Photos from europeana on Vimeo.
Photographs, tweets and highlights from the Europeana Open Culture 2010 conference in Amsterdam, October 14th-15th, as well as the pre-conference day in The Hague on October 13th.
TWIL #24: Europeana Open Culture Conference from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo
Jonathan Purday (Europeana), Liam Wyatt (on Wikipedia), Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons) and James Crawford (Google Books) interviewed in this episode of This Week in Libraries
http://www.group.europeana.eu/web/europeana-plenary-2010/speakers#lw
Twapperkeeper archive: http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk/?hashtag=openculture2010 #openculture2010
Brussels, 28 October 2011
Digital Agenda: encouraging digitisation of EU culture to help boost growth
The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material. This is essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe's creative industries. The digitised material should be made available through Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum (see www.europeana.eu).
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Judaica Europeana News
31 May 2011
From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, 1910–1938 This virtual exhibition hosted on Europeana unveils some of the works on show from 1 June to 2 October 2011 in the Jewish Historical Museum, a Judaica Europeana partner in Amsterdam. The virtual exhibition will launch in English and Dutch, and will soon be available in more languages. New features include a zooming option which provides detailed examination of the images. The next Europeana virtual exhibition to launch is from the Jewish Museum London.
26 May 2011
Behind the London Jewish Museum's ambitious digital archive project
The work for Judaica Europeana by its museum partner in London is featured in Wired magazine. Read more ...
11 March 2011
The first batch of Judaica Europeana collections has been uploaded on Europeana. It includes:
One part of the Freimann Collection at the Frankfurt University Library which was the largest and most significant Judaica collection on the European continent before 1933. As a historical resource this collection is of exceptional value. The texts reflect Jewish life in Europe as well as the relations of Jews to non-Jews in pre-and post-Emancipation times.
Access the collection here.
From the Paris Yiddish Centre's Medem Library, which holds the largest Yiddish collection in Europe, 690 audio recordings of most popular songs from East-Central Europe: including Yiddish songs, klezmer music, synagogue choral music and songs from the repertoire of the Yiddish theatre and musical comedies.
Listen to the songs here.
Large quantities of Judaica Europeana digitized resources from museums, libraries and archives will come online later this year.
22 February 2011
The Jewish Week (New York)
'Today, Jewish life and culture in Europe is on an upswing. The recently launched Judaica Europeana project, for example, led by a consortium of Jewish libraries, museums and historical societies throughout Europe, seeks to identify and centralize access to and knowledge about Jewish content in European collections. As the Jewish expansion in Europe continues to surprise and perplex many Jews elsewhere, it is worth remembering those who were committed to the renewal of European Jewry even in the immediate aftermath of its attempted annihilation. Their hope that books and libraries would contribute to the revival of former cultural and intellectual institutions and to the creation of new ones that would both honor European Jewry’s past and ensure its future, is perhaps finally coming to fruition.'
Read the complete article by Miriam Intrator on the debate over where to send Europe’s salvaged Jewish libraries after World War II.
8 January 2011
Judaica Europeana Newsletter, no. 2, 2011
The second issue of Judaica Europeana's newsletter presents highlights of partners' collections, two virtual exhibits and reports about the growing network of museums, archives and libaries that will provide online access to Jewish content through Europeana. See more on the newsletter page.
26 November 2010
Images of Greek Jews is a virtual exhibition from the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens.
It is a small selection of 20th century photographs from the Museum’s extensive photographic archive currently being digitized in the framework of the Judaica Europeana project. Family portraits, school children, scouts and others groups from Athens, Chania, Corfu, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and Volos before and after World War I and II, capture Greek Jews at formal occasions, school trips or simply at leisure. They convey a sense of a flourishing and well integrated community.
11 February 2010
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Project will provide online Judaica access
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Press releases
11 February 2010
Judaica Europeana: 10 institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna, Budapest, Paris, Rome and Warsaw join forces to offer worldwide access to the treasures of European Jewish culture.
German translation
Pressemitteilung - Judaica Europeana: 10 Institutionen in Frankfurt, London, Athen, Bologna, Budapest, Paris, Rom und Warschau arbeiten Hand in Hand und bieten weltweit einen Zugang zu den jüdischen Kulturgütern Europas an.
Greek translation - Δελτίο Τύπου
Judaica Europeana: 10 ιδρύματα στο Λονδίνο, Φρανκφούρτη, Αθήνα, Μπολόνια, Βουδαπέστη, Παρίσι, Ρώμη και Βαρσοβία, ενώνουν τις δυνάμεις τους για να προσφέρουν πρόσβαση σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο στους θησαυρούς του Ευρωπαϊκού Εβραϊκού Πολιτισμού.
Hungarian translation
Judaica Europeana: 10 intézmény Londonban, Frankfurtban, Athénben, Bolognában, Budapesten, Párizsban, Rómában és Varsóban egyesítette erőit, hogy világszerte elérhetővé tegye az európai zsidó kultúra kincseit.
Italian translation
Judaica Europeana: a Roma, Bologna, Londra, Francoforte, Atene, Budapest, Parigi e Varsavia dieci istituzioni uniscono le loro forze per offrire l’accesso ai tesori della cultura ebraica in Europa.
French translation
Judaica Europeana: dix institutions de Paris, Londres, Francfort, Athènes, Budapest, Bologne, Rome et Varsovie unissent leurs efforts pour mettre à la disposition du monde entier les trésors de la culture juive européenne.
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Judaica Europeana: 10 institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna, Budapest, Paris, Rome and Warsaw join forces to offer worldwide access to the treasures of European Jewish culture.
Judaica Europeana, a ground-breaking digital project has been awarded a major grant by the European Commission's eContentplus Programme to provide multilingual access to Jewish culture collections through Europeana, Europe’s archives, libraries and museums online. It is one of only a dozen targeted projects co-funded by the EC for Europeana.
Europeana is a flagship project of the European Union that will provide a common point of access to millions of digital objects housed at Europe’s museums, libraries and archives. A multilingual search engine will enable the users to find, view and compare cultural and scientific resources dispersed across the continent.
The Consortium of Judaica Europeana partners is led by the European Association for Jewish Culture in London and the Judaica Collection of the Goethe University Library in Frankfurt/Main. Project partners include the Alliance Israélite Universelle in cooperation with Paris Yiddish Centre — Medem Library, The British Library (London), Hungarian Jewish Archives (Budapest), Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens), Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC, Rome), Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw), Jewish Museum London and Amitié (Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna). The Central Zionist Archive (Jerusalem) and Makash (Centre for ICT applications in education, culture and science, Jerusalem) are associate partners. More associate partners will be invited to join.
Judaica Europeana will document Jewish contribution to Europe’s cities
Jews are the oldest minority in Europe with Jewish inscriptions in Greece dating back to the 3rd Century BCE. The presence of Jews through the centuries has been inextricably bound up with the development of European cities. In the first half of the 20th Century London’s East End and the Belleville quarter of Paris were thriving Jewish areas with Jewish shops, cafes, schools, libraries and prayer houses. One third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish in 1939. In the harbour of Thessaloniki, before World War I, economic activity stopped on the Day of Atonement. Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish press flourished and was widely available in many European cities.
Occupational specialization has led to the identification of Jews with specific streets, buildings and neighbourhoods across Europe. Jews were instrumental in the development of commerce: they were often owners of small shops and pioneers in the development of department stores. They were prominent in the medical and legal professions and in the cultural field. They were intellectuals, artists, musicians, writers and journalists as well as owners of newspapers and publishing houses. Jewish communal life flourished through religious observance, education, mutual support, politics, theatre, music and publishing. This pre-World War II Jewish world was to a large extent destroyed in the Holocaust, but today there is a vibrant Jewish life in many European cities and a renewed interest in Jewish culture has been taking place across Europe over the last few decades.
Abundant Jewish cultural expressions are documented through hundreds of thousands of objects dispersed in many collections: documents, books, manuscripts, periodicals, audio recordings, pictures, photographs, postcards, posters and films as well as through buildings, monuments and cemeteries all over Europe.
Judaica Europeana will begin by digitizing millions of pages and thousands of other items selected from the collections of its partner libraries, archives and museums. The next stage will be to aggregate other digital collections on Jews in European cities — wherever they may be. ‘Jewish culture has been predominantly text-based; it will be a particular challenge for us to bring in as much audio-visual material as possible’ said Lena Stanley-Clamp, the project’s manager and director of the European Association for Jewish Culture.
Judaica Europeana will reach out to diverse audiences across Europe and beyond
The target audiences for Judaica Europeana are university teachers and students, schools, cultural heritage professionals, cultural tourists and the general public – indeed anyone interested in the history of European cities or Jewish culture.
Judaica Europeana will reach out to universities with presentations and workshops to stimulate the use of the Judaica Europeana archive. The partner institutions will involve school teachers and students and encourage them to develop projects and lessons. They will also curate virtual exhibitions showcasing Judaica material.
‘It is a great opportunity for cultural heritage institutions to promote European Jewish culture internationally and to stimulate research’, said Dr Rachel Heuberger, the Head of the Judaica Collection of the University Library at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, the largest Judaica and Hebraica collection in Germany.
More information on Judaica Europeana at
www.judaica-europeana.eu
More information about Europeana at
www.group.europeana.eu
For further information contact
Lena Stanley-Clamp
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The JUDAICA Europeana consortium
The project is led by
European Association for Jewish Culture, London
Coordinator
Judaica Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek
der Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main
Partners
Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
Amitié, Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna
British Library, London
Hungarian Jewish Archives, Budapest
Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
The Jewish Museum London
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Rome
Associate Partners
Ben Uri Gallery – The London Jewish Museum of Art
Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam
Center for Jewish History, New York
Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem
Centre français des musiques juives, Paris
Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Leopold Zunz Zentrum, Halle-Wittenberg
Makash, Jerusalem
Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid
National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Paris Yiddish Centre – Medem Library
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut, Duisburg
Sephardi Museum, Toledo
* Other qualifying Associate Partners will be invited to join
