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"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe view detail comment email this

This collection of 17,000 photographs from the YIVO archives is a visual record of pre-World War II Jewish communities. In some cases, the pictures are all that remains. Online albums document holiday observance, Yiddish writers, immigration, women's roles, and formal studio portraits. Users must register to search the full catalog.
http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/
Topics: History, Holidays & Observances, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, Society & Social Science
Last updated Feb 5, 2003


Anne Frank House view detail comment email this

Web site of the Amsterdam museum located in the house where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis during World War II. Contains a biography, photos, a history of the pogroms instituted against the Jews, the reasons the Frank family went into hiding, and information on their final days in the concentration camps. Also includes brief excerpts of her diary, its history, and its publication background. Available in several languages, including English and Spanish.
http://www.annefrank.org/
Topics: History, Judaism, Museums, Museums by Place, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History
Last updated Jun 15, 2004


Centropa: Jewish Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe view detail comment email this

An online collection of Central and Eastern Europe "pre (and post)-Holocaust family photographs and oral histories," Assembled by an "international team of historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators, photographers and Jewish community activists," these historical and contemporary materials may be accessed by subject, theme, country, and family. The site also has columns featuring books, travel, and food.
http://centropa.org/
Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Recipes by Region, Recipes by Region: United States, Regions of the World
Last updated Mar 11, 2004


The Fight view detail comment email this

Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program about the June 1938 boxing match "between the African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling." The site explores "the impact Louis's victory had on black America and its significance for Jews on both sides of the Atlantic." Includes interactive features, a timeline, photo gallery, biographies, a teacher's guide, and related resources.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/
Topics: Black Resources, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Sports
Last updated Jan 4, 2005


Poland at War view detail comment email this

"Photographs of Nazi occupied Poland taken between 1939-1945." Browse the photographs by categories including Warsaw at war, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the Warsaw Ghetto, and Jews of Poland. These photos were not taken by professionals. From a British man who is also seeking information about his Polish relatives.
http://www.thornb2b.co.uk/Poland_at_War/
Topics: History By Place, Photograph Collections: History, Wars & Conflicts
Last updated Dec 20, 2004


Southwest Jewish Archives view detail comment email this

"Dedicated to collecting and recording the dramatic history of pioneer Jews in the Desert Southwest, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas," including the Crypto-Jews who trace "their family histories back to Spain and Portugal." Features materials on Jewish pioneers, railroad builders, ranchers, and merchants; synagogues and religious objects; Crypto-Jews; finding aids for the archive's collections; and transcripts of over 20 oral histories. Includes photographs. From the University of Arizona.
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/
Topics: Discover New Trails at LII, History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States
Last updated Dec 24, 2004


Stalin's Forgotten Zion: An Illustrated History, 1928-1996 view detail comment email this

In 1934, Stalin created the Jewish Autonomous Region in the region of Birobidzhan in Siberia as a Soviet alternative to Palestine. This online version of an exhibit created for the Judah Magnes Museum uses archival photographs and multimedia to document the experiment and its failure. It examines the notions of Jewish identity, culture, and community.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Home/News/biro/
Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional
Last updated Dec 4, 2004


Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Germany, 1898-1938 view detail comment email this

This online tour of an exhibit demonstrates the rich Jewish culture that existed in Germany "beginning at the turn of the 20th century and ending as the Nazi regime took power." Includes annotated images of books, magazines, photographs, and illustrations. From the special collections of the Gelman Library at George Washington University.
http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/spec/kiev/treasures/
Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional
Last updated Dec 5, 2004


YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: Online Galleries view detail comment email this

Founded in Vilna, Lithuania, the YIVO Institute is one of the foremost centers of Jewish learning. The website has several online galleries with artifacts and photographs of the Jewish Labor Bund, actress Ida Kaminska, treasures from the archives, posters from prewar Poland, and artifacts from the Vilna Ghetto.
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/exhibits_fr.htm
Topics: History, Judaism, Photograph Collections: History
Last updated May 6, 2007




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