The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Located within the University of Florida's Digital Collections and modelled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), the JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions of hidden and/or endangered Jewish cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. The JDoC also preserves digital copies of materials held in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, also within the University of Flordia library system, a library of 90,000 volumes notable for it rare, late 19th to early 20th century imprints. the JDoC also includes the sub-collection "Cuba Judaica", which focuses on Cuban Jewish intellectual, cultural, religious and political life as it evolved and progressed during the 20th century.
(Description adapted from information on project website)
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The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Located within the University of Florida's Digital Collections and modelled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), the JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions of hidden and/or endangered Jewish cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. The JDoC also preserves digital copies of materials held in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, also within the University of Flordia library system, a library of 90,000 volumes notable for it rare, late 19th to early 20th century imprints. the JDoC also includes the sub-collection "Cuba Judaica", which focuses on Cuban Jewish intellectual, cultural, religious and political life as it evolved and progressed during the 20th century.
(Description adapted from information on project website)