JEWISH PERIODICALS IN NAZI GERMANY
Objective
Jewish periodicals in Nazi Germany represent an historical
source of great importance for research on the life and
suffering of the Jewish community under the National Socialist
dictatorship. As a result of the situation in which they have
survived, access to them is restricted and only possible with
great difficulty. The objective of the project is the
digitalisation, indexing and publication on the Internet of the
most important Jewish periodicals founded in Germany after (or
shortly before) the National Socialist seizure of power in
1933. For the most part organs of the – in part newly founded –
self-help institutions of the Jewish community, they represent
its direct response to persecution by the Nazi regime.
The selection of newspapers and magazines has been made in
consultation with the directors of the German Research
Foundation project “Retrospective Digitalisation of Jewish
Periodicals in the German-Speaking Regions” (“Compact Memory”).
This ensures that no periodical is digitalised more than once.
Both projects are to be linked.
Funding
German Research Foundation
Project duration
2004 – 2006
Direct access
Renate Seib
