a judaica europeana virtual exhibition: yiddish theatre in london
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Judaica Europeana virtual exhibition: Yiddish Theatre in London
Elizabeth SelbyJewish Museum London
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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)
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Yiddish theatre collections at the JML
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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
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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/show/yiddish-theatre-en
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Our next exhibition
• A history of British Jewry in 50 objects• Should be online by late November