This webmap of Yiddish literature is made from the bibliographic metadata of the ca. 13.000 texts in the Yiddish Book Center's digital collection. You can click the slider and use arrow keys or type to choose a year and see where in the world Yiddish literature was being published then.

The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) invites applications to the Nahmanides Programme for 2024. The purpose of the Nahmanides Programme is to fund workshops addressing specific issues and problems relating to the teaching of academic Jewish Studies in Europe. One grant of up to £6,500 will be awarded to fund a Nahmanides Workshop in the academic year 2023-24. For this call for submissions, the topic is Artificial Intelligence and Teaching Jewish Studies in Europe.

In the last decade, Austrian Holocaust research and education has gone digital. In this rapidly evolving framework, this EHRI Seminar addresses a number of questions about Holocaust research in the digital age. The seminar will take place from 16-18 January 2024, at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) in Vienna.

This international conference will be organized around three main themes that will examine the history of how the Holocaust, persecution, and extermination have been measured: 1/ the history of numbers; 2/ the uses and controversies surrounding the measurement of the Holocaust; and 3/ the contributions and limits of methods for collecting and analyzing quantitative material for understanding the Holocaust.

The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses some 230 manuscripts written in Hebrew and in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish.  It is a highly diverse collection with materials ranging from rabbinic responsa and commentary to poetry, Jewish magic, and folk medicine, and together they offer a rich, often intimate glimpse into Jewish life over the centuries.

In the framework of EHRI, the Federal Archives offer a five-day archival seminar under the title “Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust” (see also the EHRI Online Course Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust). It aims at giving a thorough introduction into the handling of German records related to the Holocaust. The intended audience especially includes archival staff members (particularly from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe), Holocaust researchers and employees of museums and memorial sites who work with German archival records and would like to enlarge their knowledge on archival sources.

The Digital Library of Burned Books [Bibliothek Verbrannte Bücher] is a digitization project taking as point of departure a website on the history of book burnings and the “Library of burned books” conceived at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (MMZ) in 2008. In a current project, the existing online content will be comprehensively revised, and a selection from initially 20 books will be digitized and made available to the public both for online-reading as well as to download. The new site will be public to mark the 90th anniversary of the student book burnings in May 2023.