<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from Friedel Grant. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>The Hague, February 9th, 2010<br>
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JUDAICA Europeana to bring Jewish culture to Europeana<br>
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JUDAICA Europeana (<a href="http://www.judaica-europeana.eu" target="_blank">www.judaica-europeana.eu</a>) is a new project that will<br>
provide open access to Jewish culture collections through Europeana, Europe’s<br>
digital library, museum and archive.<br>
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Funded through the European Commission eContentplus Programme, JUDAICA<br>
Europeana will document Jewish contribution to Europe’s cities, with<br>
contributions from 12 institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna,<br>
Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, Rome and Warsaw.<br>
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JUDAICA Europeana will begin by digitising millions of pages and thousands of<br>
other items selected from the collections of its partner libraries, archives and<br>
museums. The next stage will be to aggregate other digital collections on Jews<br>
in European cities — wherever they may be.<br>
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“Jewish culture has been predominantly text-based; it will be a particular<br>
challenge for us to bring in as much audio-visual material as possible,” said<br>
Lena Stanley-Clamp, the project’s manager and Director of the European<br>
Association for Jewish Culture.<br>
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The project will reach out to diverse audiences. The target audiences for<br>
JUDAICA Europeana include universities and schools, heritage professionals,<br>
tourists, family history researchers and the general public – indeed anyone<br>
interested in the history of European cities or Jewish culture.<br>
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"It is a great opportunity for cultural heritage institutions to promote European<br>
Jewish culture internationally and to stimulate research," said Dr Rachel<br>
Heuberger, the Head of the Judaica Collection of the University Library at the<br>
Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, the largest Judaica and Hebraica collection<br>
in Germany.<br>
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For more information on JUDAICA Europeana, please see http://www.judaica-<br>
<a href="http://europeana.eu/news.html" target="_blank">europeana.eu/news.html</a><br>
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Notes for editors:<br>
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• Europeana.eu is Europe’s digital library, museum and archive. Launched as<br>
a prototype in November 2008, it brings together 6 million digitised items from<br>
Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage organisations.<br>
• Europeana’s fully operational service will launch later in 2010, giving<br>
access to 10 million items. This new content is coming in from a group of<br>
projects that are working with heritage organisations across Europe, including<br>
JUDAICA Europeana. The full list of projects is available at<br>
<a href="http://group.europeana.eu/web/guest" target="_blank">http://group.europeana.eu/web/guest</a><br>
• The Consortium of JUDAICA Europeana partners is led by the European<br>
Association for Jewish Culture in London and the Goethe University Library,<br>
Judaica Collection in Frankfurt/Main. Project partners include the Alliance<br>
Israélite Universelle (Paris) in cooperation with the Paris Yiddish Centre-Medem<br>
Library, The British Library (London), Hungarian Jewish Archives (Budapest),<br>
Jewish Museum of Greece (Athens), Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC,<br>
Rome), Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw), Jewish Museum London and Amitié<br>
(Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna). The Central Zionist Archive<br>
(Jerusalem) and Makash (Centre for ICT applications in education, culture and<br>
science, Jerusalem) are associate partners. More associate partners will be<br>
invited to join.<br>
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For further information contact:<br>
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JUDAICA<br>
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Lena Stanley-Clamp<br>
<a href="mailto:Lstanley-clamp@jpr.org.uk">Lstanley-clamp@jpr.org.uk</a><br>
Tel +44 (0) 7873 214979<br>
European Association for Jewish Culture<br>
<a href="http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org" target="_blank">www.jewishcultureineurope.org</a><br>
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Dr Rachel Hauberger<br>
<a href="mailto:r.heuberger@ub.uni-frankfurt.de">r.heuberger@ub.uni-frankfurt.de</a><br>
Tel. +49 (0) 69 798 39665<br>
Universitätsbibliothek der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main<br>
<a href="http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ssg/judaica_en.html" target="_blank">www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ssg/judaica_en.html</a><br>
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Europeana<br>
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Europeana Marketing & Communications<br>
<a href="mailto:marcomms@europeana.eu">marcomms@europeana.eu</a><br>
Tel +31 (0) 70 314 0967<br>
<a href="http://www.europeana.eu" target="_blank">www.europeana.eu</a><br>
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