Salon Jewish Studies Blog

As some of you obviously noticed, there was a break in publishing new posts on the Salon Jewish Studies Blog during the last months. The reason is, that we are working on a new project, called Jewlib - Digital Archive Library of Primary Sources for Jewish History and Cultures. This project is a work in progress, like the Salon Jewish Studies. The aims of the project are (among others):

On the occasion of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary also the journal Pardes which is published yearly by the Vereinigung Jüdische Studien e.V., presents a vivid view on "white city on the sands".

The issue PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. [15 (2009)] = 100jähriges Jubiläum Tel Avivs includes following articles and essays:

Photographs from the Paul Trevor Collection are available online via VADS: "Academics and artists at London Metropolitan University worked with photographer Paul Trevor to make a selection of his images of East London digitally available to artists, students and researchers. The Collection includes 500 images (chosen from a total of 120,000) of the Spitalfields area from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period of rapid social and physical change." The online collection contains a few pictures documenting Jewish daily life in the area.

In the framework of the Historic Jewish Press project at the JNUL the Jewish newspapers Davar (1925-1968), Ha-Zvi (1884-1915) and La Liberté / El Horria (1915-1922) have been digitized. Now ten newspapers are available online.

The comprehensive Eliasaf Robinson Collection on the history of Tel-Aviv at Stanford University Libraries includes a number of digitized books, brochures and serials that are now available online. The quality of the material in general is rather good. Some of it is "grey literature" that is hard to find in libraries. Most of the texts are in Hebrew, some in Yiddish. There are some German and English titles too. Some examples:

The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania started the public podcast series Jews in Business: Myth and Reality. Three Podcast are available at the moment:

1. Jonathan Karp - A Head Without a Body? Reconstructing the History of Jews in Business
2. Evelyne Oliel-Grausz - Kinship, Commerce, and Trade Networks: The Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora
3. Adam Teller - Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe