News of the project Judaica Europeana

Ten institutions involved in the preservation of the Jewish Heritage in Europe (Bibliothèque Medem, Bibliothèque de l’Alliance israélite universelle, London Jewish Museum, Jewish Museum of Athens, Library of Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main, British Library, Jewish Archives of Hungary, Culture Ministry of Italy, Jewish Historic Institute of Warsaw and the Research Center Amitié of Bologna) are participants in the project Judaica Europeana. This project is subsidized by the European Commission and coordinated by the European Association for Jewish Culture (London).

Judaica Europeana will offer, at www.judaica-europeana.eu, a wealth of digitized documents dealing with contribution of the Jewish people to cities in all of Europe. By the end of 2011, hundreds of thousands of books, postcards, posters and audio/video recordings will be put online by the various partner institutions. A considerable number of documents have already been put online.

Virtual Exhibitions developed by the different member institutions will also be made available through Judaica Europeana. At the present time the following exhibits can already be visited: 
- Yiddish Theater in London (presented by the London Jewish Museum) 
- From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish artists of the avant-garde born in de Romania, 1910-1938 (offered by the Jewish History Museum of Amsterdam)
- 150 years in the service of education (presented by the Alliance israélite universelle)
- Images of the Jews of Greece (by the Jewish Museum of Athens)
- Postcards with Jewish themes (by the Jewish archives of Hungary)
La Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem will, within the next few months, contribute to this part of the project by putting on line its exhibition, “400 years of Yiddish books as seen through the collections of the Medem Library
To visit these exhibitions: http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/

To consult the newsletter of this project :  http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Newsletter.html