Compact Memory is a project of digitizing and making publically accessible Jewish periodicals from the 18th-20th centuries. A portal located within the "Judaica" digital collections of the library of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main [Universitätsbibliothek Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main], Compact Memory includes nearly 400 digitized Jewish periodicals from the German speaking world that were originally printed from 1768-1938. The periodicals span topics ranging from religion to politics, society, literature, and academia and nearly all titles have been edited with OCR and made fully text searchable.
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Compact Memory is a project of digitizing and making publically accessible Jewish periodicals from the 18th-20th centuries. A portal located within the "Judaica" digital collections of the library of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main [Universitätsbibliothek Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main], Compact Memory includes nearly 400 digitized Jewish periodicals from the German speaking world that were originally printed from 1768-1938. The periodicals span topics ranging from religion to politics, society, literature, and academia and nearly all titles have been edited with OCR and made fully text searchable.
(Description adapted from information on project website)