Mapping Jewish Los Angeles (MJLA) is a project that uses digital tools and multimedia technologies to enable a broad audience to discover the complex histories of the Los Angeles Jewish community. Developed in collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the UCLA Library, and dozens of community archives, the MJLA project recovers and preserves hidden archives and facilitates access to them through multimodal digital exhibitions. MJLA currently includes a dozen exhibitions on a wide range of topics, from the role of Jewish grocers in the invention of the modern supermarket to historic Jewish neighborhoods to émigré artists from Vienna and Israel. A collaborative community of cultural and preservation organizations, librarians and archivists, translators, genealogists and family historians, students, scholars, and history buffs as well as a forum for digital publishing, MJLA welcomes new projects related to Los Angeles’ Jewish past, present, and future.
(Description adapted from information on project website)
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Mapping Jewish Los Angeles (MJLA) is a project that uses digital tools and multimedia technologies to enable a broad audience to discover the complex histories of the Los Angeles Jewish community. Developed in collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the UCLA Library, and dozens of community archives, the MJLA project recovers and preserves hidden archives and facilitates access to them through multimodal digital exhibitions. MJLA currently includes a dozen exhibitions on a wide range of topics, from the role of Jewish grocers in the invention of the modern supermarket to historic Jewish neighborhoods to émigré artists from Vienna and Israel. A collaborative community of cultural and preservation organizations, librarians and archivists, translators, genealogists and family historians, students, scholars, and history buffs as well as a forum for digital publishing, MJLA welcomes new projects related to Los Angeles’ Jewish past, present, and future.
(Description adapted from information on project website)