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

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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/yidd
  ish-theatre-en

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Our next exhibition

• A history of British Jewry in 50 objects
• Should be online by late November