DIGITAL DREAMSTHE POTENTIAL IN A PILE OF

OLD JEWISH NEWSPAPERS

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the

Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

was awarded a UF Libraries mini-grant to

digitize a small corpus of jubilee editions

of Jewish newspapers from around the

world.

The Jewish press of the twentieth

century was an extremely vibrant entity

and an important tool of social change.

The newspaper editors were among the

major Jewish writers of their day.

Thirty-two representative issues were

selected out of a special, hidden

collection of over 200 such newspapers

held at the University of Florida.

The jubilee edition of a

newspaper can provide a

wealth of historical and

social information.

Jubilee editions help

chart the history of the

particular newspaper

in question.

An online collection of

these jubilee editions

provides a key resource

for research into the

history of the Jewish

press in general.

EVOLUTION DEVELOPMENTTHE RESULTS

•BROCHURES

•FLYERS

•LIBRARY GUIDES

•WEBSITES

•LISTSERVS

•BLOGS

•SHOWCASES

•PRESS RELEASESRebecca J. W. Jefferson

George A. Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

From a simple card catalog

listing 200+ Jewish newspapers

held in the University of Florida …

THE PROJECT

Publicity for the

collection will attract

more users to the

newspaper database.

Greater demand for the

materials will help bring

in additional funding for

the entire project.

A large-scale digital

collection of this nature

can inspire future

collaborative projects.

JUDAICA ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION DATABASEhttp://ufdc.ufl.edu/ianniversary

PRESERVING AND DIGITIZING

A JEWISH NEWSPAPER COLLECTION

… to databases like

Compact Memory – a

collection of German

Jewish periodicals

to even greater

possibilities …