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Judaica Europeana is a targeted project co-funded by the eContentPlus programme that will work with European cultural institutions to identify content documenting the Jewish cultural contribution to the cities of Europe.

The project aims to contribute 10,500 photos, 1,500 postcards and 7,150 recordings of Jewish culture, as well as a very large quantity of books, newspapers, archives and press clippings to Europeana.

Judaica's goals and expected results

• Documentation of Jewish expression in Europe: Judaica will encourage and support content holders in identifying Jewish content in their collections that reflect the activities, creativity and self-expression of Jews in European cities.
• Digitisation and aggregation of this content: A coherent thematic collection will be created and incorporated into Europeana: Standards will be coordinated across institutions in order to synchronise the metadata with the interoperability requirements of Europeana.
• Deployment of knowledge management tools: These will enable communities of practice to adapt, and apply controlled vocabularies, thesauri and ontologies for the indexing, retrieval and re-use of the aggregated content pertinent to their own areas of interest.
• Support for the use of the digitised content: Items added by Judaica will be used in scholarship and academic research; university-based teaching; online teaching and learning; museum curatorship and virtual exhibitions; events and initiatives of cultural institutions in European cities; cultural tourism; formal and informal education.

Judaica facts

• Judaica started in January 2010 and will run for 24 months.
• It is led by the European Association for Jewish Culture, London and coordinated by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
• It has over 10 partners from the EU states.

Partners

Judaica Europeana will be carried out by a consortium that includes the following partners:

• European Association of Jewish Culture, London
• Judaica Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
• Alliance Israélite Universelle
• Amitié, Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna
• British Library, London
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Rome
• Hungarian Jewish Archives, Budapest
• Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
• The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
• The Jewish Museum, London

Associate Partners

• Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem
• MAKASH, Jerusalem
• Paris Yiddish Centre-Medem Library

Contact

Lena Stanley-Clamp, project coordinator
Director, European Association for Jewish Culture

Tel +44 (0) 20 7436 1553
contact.judaica.europeana AT gmail.com

More info: www.judaica-europeana.eu

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