Collection of Judaica

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Collection of Judaica

This collection allows reasearchers to browse more than 1,500 Judaica materials held in the repositories featured on OPENN. The collections include a variety of genres —including liturgical texts, letters, poetry, grammar, and marriage contracts— ranging from 11th-century materials from the Cairo Genizah Collection to 19th- and 20th-century documents related to the Congregation Mikveh Israel. Primarily written in Hebrew, these texts also feature Judeo-Arabic, Samaratin Aramaic, Yiddish and other languages. The documents are drawn from the following repositories:

Sponsorship

The materials included within this curated collection were digitized through a variety of grants and projects specific to each host insitituion. For details, please refer to the information page of each individual repository listed above.

Licensing

Images

Images and their contents are available under various licenses. Some are in the public domain and some are available under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0) or under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-SA 2.0). Please check individual repository pages to determine under which license the images are available.

Metadata

Manuscript descriptions and other cataloging metadata are available under various licenses. Some institutions have waived all copyright and related neighboring rights to the metadata hosted here under the CC0 license and some are available under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). Please check individual repository pages to determine under which license the metadata is available.

Intended Users

The Judiaica Collection data presented on OPenn is intended for aggregators, digital humanists, and scholars who have been directed here to procure high-resolution images and their associated metadata. It is presented in a manner most likely to ensure its long-term digital preservation. The images of these manuscripts are accompanied by detailed manuscript descriptions in machine-readable TEI format.

Image Standards and Specifications

Image standards and specifications vary slightly based on repository, though most images are available in 660 ppi 24-bit color uncompressed TIFF images. Please refer to the repository information page for specific details.

Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection

British Library

Congregation Mikveh Israel

Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections

Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenbach

University of Manchester Library, Special Collections

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Manuscripts

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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