A Judaica Europeana virtual exhibition:
Yiddish Theatre in London
Elizabeth Selby
Jewish Museum London
Why produce a virtual exhibition?
• A requirement of Judaica Europeana
• Highlights your collection to remote users
around the world and puts it in to historical
context
• Not confined by physical space
• A range of media can be used to bring your
subject to life – images, film and sound
• Enables interaction with your visitors (user
generated content, feedback forms)
Yiddish theatre collections at the JML
Digitisation of collections
• Yiddish theatre
collection digitised for
project
• Includes Yiddish
typewriter used by the
playwright and
prompter Abish Meisels
(1896-1959).
• Have also digitised
costumes, programmes
and posters
The finished exhibition
• Web design by Europeana using Omeka –
http://omeka.org
• Simply organised by themes with choice of
images for each, highlighting our extensive
photography collection
• http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/sho
w/yiddish-theatre-en
Our next exhibition
• A history of British Jewry in 50 objects
• Should be online by late November