Second newsletter
ECP-2008-DILI-538025
JUDAICA Europeana
Second Newsletter
Deliverable number
D4.6
Dissemination level
Public
Delivery date
31 December 2010
Status
Final
Author(s)
Lena Stanley Clamp (EAJC, London); Anat
Harel (JHM, Amsterdam); Rachel Heuberger,
UB-FFM, Frankfurt/Main; Zsuzsana Toronyi,
MZSML, Budapest
eContentplus
This project is funded under the eContentplus programme1,
a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.
1
OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 1.
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Table of Contents
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SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. 3
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OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................. 4
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STRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................. 4
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CONTENT ................................................................................................................................. 4
4.1 INTRODUCTION: JUDAICA EUROPEANA OPENS ACCESS TO JEWISH HERITAGE
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4.2 JUDAICA EUROPEANA PARTNERS AND THEIR COLLECTIONS
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4.3 VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS
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4.4 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
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TARGET AUDIENCES AND DISSEMINATION ................................................................. 6
ANNEX 1:
JUDAICA EUROPEANA NEWSLETTER ....................................................... 7
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1.
Summary
This deliverable describes the structure, content and target audiences of the Judaica Europeana
newsletter:
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Newsletter.html
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Objectives
The newsletter is a tool in the Judaica Europeana dissemination strategy whose objectives are to:
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Raise awareness of the project and promote its results
Promote the Judaica Europeana content to different constituencies in Europe and motivate
scholars, teachers, students and cultural heritage professionals to turn to Judaica as a primary
source.
Promote Judaica Europeana and Europeana to a wider group of public and private content
owners and to secure the support of Associate Partners that will contribute additional resources
to the project
Ensure synergy between Judaica dissemination and Europeana
Structure
This second online newsletter has been published on the project website in December 2010 at
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Newsletter.html and is accessible from the main menu. The
newsletter displays a dateline No.2, 2010/2011 and a headline:
Judaica Europeana Jewish collections online
The front page consists of four illustrated sections:
 Judaica Europeana Opens Access to Jewish Heritage
 Judaica Europeana Partners and their Collections
 Virtual Exhibitions
 Conferences and Seminars
Each introductory paragraph ends with a “more about....” link to additional pages where the full
narrative and more illustrations are published.
At the bottom of each page there is a mechanism enabling readers to subscribe to future issues of
the newsletter and a “Contact us” link for feedback.
The logo of Europeana links to the Europeana portal and there is a logo and acknowledgement of
the EC eContentplus programme support. The support of the Rothschild Foundation (Europe) is
also acknowledged.
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Content
4.1
Introduction: Judaica Europeana Opens Access to Jewish Heritage
The first section of the newsletter highlights the continuing growth of the Judaica Europeana
network, which has more than doubled since the launch of the project. It mentions the heritage
institutions which have joined Judaica as Associate Partners. A link is provided to the full list of
partners. The text is illustrated with colourful examples of Jewish art and objects in various
collections.
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4.2
Judaica Europeana Partners and their Collections
This section presents the collections of two of the Partners on two separate pages: the Jewish
Historical Museum in Amsterdam and the Judaica Collection of the Goethe University Library in
Frankfurt/Main. Each page shows objects from these collections and tells their stories. The captions
complement the information provided. These highlights aim to provide an insight into the Partners’
collections which will become accessible online through Europeana. They are designed to catch the
readers’ attention and encourage them to explore further by following the links.
4.3
Virtual Exhibitions
Two virtual exhibitions produced by project Partners are featured in this section.
‘Jewish Postcards: Networking in Europe’ presents the postcards from the historical collection of
the Hungarian Jewish Archive which have been digitized in the framework of Judaica Europeana.
Dating mostly from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the postcards became
popular at the time when Jewish migration was a significant phenomenon. They were then the best
way of keeping alive the connections between family members dispersed in different countries and
continents. Moreover, the postcards were pictorial representations of Jews: they were the first
popular media to depict Jews as they were seen. The Newsletter provides an illustrated introduction
and provides a link to the exhibition.
‘Images of Greek Jews’ is a virtual exhibit from the Jewish Museum of Greece. It is a 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. The newsletter provides an
introduction and a link to the exhibit on the museum’s website.
4.4
Conferences and Seminars
This section highlights some of the Judaica Europeana dissemination events held since the
publication of the first Newsletter. It focuses on the Judaica Europeana session at the IX Congress
of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Ravenna and illustrates Judaica Partners’
presentations. The Digital Humanities Workshop held at this Congress is also featured as well as
conferences and other events held in many different international locations.
There is a link to the full list of events and some uploaded presentations published on the Events
page of the website.
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5.
Target audiences and dissemination
The newsletter aims to address the following audiences:
 University scholars, researchers, students
 School teachers and students
 Heritage professionals including librarians; archivists, curators, cultural tourists
 Jewish media
 General public
The newsletter will be disseminated by the project partners to their email lists which include the
above categories of readers. It will also be sent to other specialist lists such as the members of
European Association for Jewish Studies and the international H-Judaica list, as well as to our
growing newsletter subscription list. We shall also seek to publicize it through Europeana, which
featured the First Judaica Newsletter on its website.
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Annex 1:
Judaica Europeana Newsletter
The Second Judaica Europeana Newsletter is shown in the Annex to this report as PDF pages
printed from the website.
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