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The National Yiddish Book Center (Amherst) offers online access to 11,000 out of print Yiddish titles. Users are able to browse, search and download the books through the Internet-Archive. The titles were scanned under the auspices of Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, which was launched in 1998 with the help of a major grant to the Yiddish Book Center from the Righteous Persons Foundation.

"The Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library is believed to be the only project ever to digitize an entire modern literature, preserving it permanently for future generations of readers, students, and scholars. The project began when diminishing supplies of popular Yiddish titles made it increasingly difficult for the Center to fill requests for important books. In addition, our collection of 1.5 million books was physically deteriorating, as pages and bindings yellowed and crumbled. With the help of state-of-the-art technology, every title in the Center’s collection has now been scanned, page by page, creating permanent computer files that can be readily reprinted, on demand, as high-quality, affordable new books."

(Picture: National Yiddish Book Center)

A few days ago Klaus Graf refers on Archivalia to a convenient method for fulltext-searching the Archive.org-OCRs via Google. Example:

Searching for "jiddisch"

http://www.google.de/search?num=100&hl=de&q=jiddisch+site%3Aarchive.org+filetype%3Atxt&btnG=Suche&meta=

To get the whole document in PDF or other formats just click the button on the top left side.

The Library of Congress (Washington) provides access to a large number of WEBCASTS including a huge variety of topics. The website covers the sections Biography & History, Culture & Performing Arts, Education, Government & World Affairs, Poetry & Literature, Religion and Science & Technology. Following webcasts may be of interest in context of Jewish histories and cultures (among others):

• Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah, Peggy Pearlstein, Dianne Ashton (2007)
  


• Baghdad Jews in British Burma, Ruth Fredman Cernea (2008)
  


• Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, Laura Cohen Appelbaum, Wendy Turman (2007)
  


• Jewish Women's Issues, Susan Weidman Schneider (2004)
  


• Traditional Judaism or Reform, Marsha Rozenblit (2008)
  


• The Royal Court Preacher and the Hebrew Book, Menachem Schmelzer (2004)
  


• Holy Moses! A Cultural History of the Ten Commandments in Modern America, Jenna Joselit (2007)
  


• The Jewish Book in America, Jonathan D. Sarna (2004)
  


• The Warren and Margot Coville Collection of Photographs from the Clarence H. White School of Photography, Warren Coville, Kathy Erwin (2001)
  


• Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaronsohn and the Seeds of the Arab-Israel Conflict, Ronald Florence (2007)
  


• I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms, Debra Band (2008)
  


• Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden, Debra Band (2008)
  


• Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities, Ethel Raim (2008)
  


• A Bibliographer Encounters the Muses: Reflections on the Yiddish Theater and Its Legacy, Zachary M. Baker (2007)
  


• Writing the Story of America's Religious Origins, Susan Jacoby, Mark Noll, Steve Prothero, Jonathan Sarna (2006)
  

To view the webcasts you need to install the Real Player.

The Israeli Left Archive is a private digitalization project, based on the collection of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. The Kaminer collection is devoted to radical left and the women's peace movement in Israel during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It includes Pamphlets, Periodicals, Posters, Leaflets and circulars by different groups who were active outside of the framework of traditional party politics and whose legacy is therefore not covered by any official archive in Israel. Amongs these groups are: Women in Black, SIAH, SHASI, Committee Against the War in Lebanon, Mazpen, Yesh Gul, and The Black Panthers in Israel. Most of the material is in Hebrew, but there are also a number of documents in English. These are presented in a special collection.

Even though Postcardman.net is a commercial website for vintage postcards from all over the world, it is also an excellent source for research on postcards or illustrations and pictures from a specific country or topic. On the website you will find both, a category Israel/Palestine with items showing: