As part of this year’s Historiker Tag in Leipzig, the collaborative portal Jewish History online, hosted by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and developed in cooperation with the IGdJ, was launched. On the website, various digital projects can be searched simultaneously. The Key Documents edition is participating from the beginning! Discover more!
Publication
The Key Documents on bildungsgeschichte.de
A detailed report on the Key Documents Edition has just been published on the portal bildungsgeschichte.de, a platform for topics regarding the history of education. We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann, who is the editor of the thematic category Education and Learning, for this appreciation. Click here for the full report.
Key Documents in the Archives Journal of the State Archive
The new edition of the Archivjournal of the Hamburg State Archive has just been published, including a short project presentation of the key documents edition. The State Archive is an important cooperation partner since a large part of the sources of Hamburg’s Jewish history are preserved there.
Medaon issue on digital Jewish history
The latest issue of the online magazine Medaon was just released. Titled “Interim Promises and Challenges. Perspectives on the relationship between digitization and Jewish history”, it focuses on the subject of digital Jewish history. This edition was developed in collaboration with the Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGDJ) in Hamburg and the Netzwerk Jüdische Geschichte digital.
Location and virtuality. Opportunities and challenges of digitization using the example of the Jewish heritage in Hamburg
At the conference “When the Heritage Comes to the Cloud” in Bonn on November 13th and 14th, 2014, Anna Menny gave a lecture on the digitization of Jewish heritage using the example of the Key Documents. In the meantime, the lecture has also been published in the conference volume: Eckhard Bolenz / Lina Franken / Dagmar Händel (Hrsg.), Wenn das Erbe in die Wolke kommt. Digitalisierung und kulturelles Erbe, Essen 2015.