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From: Jeanne Gold <>
Subject: [BERDICHEV-L] Re: DEPOSITORY OF SOURCES FOR JEWISH HISTORY
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:04:51 -0700


At 03:27 PM 8/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>http://www.glasnet.ru/~heritage/depe.htm

Thank you!

For those members who haven't had a chance to look at this site, it's a
great find.

To quote from the "The Jewish Archive Program" page, located at:
http://www.glasnet.ru/~heritage/eae.htm

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The main goal of the "Jewish Archive" program is to locate, describe, make
available to scholars and to preserve for future generations the great
amount of source material for Jewish history from state repositories of the
CIS and the Baltic states and neglected collections in vanishing Jewish
communities and synagogues. Started by the Society several years ago, this
work is based on the contributions of enthusiasts of Jewish history and
culture. The "Jewish Archive" program brings together various professionals
and amateurs: historians and philologists, archivists and librarians,
students of regional history and public figures.

The Society's work on uncovering and describing Jewish holdings in archives
of the CIS and the Baltic states has passed through the following steps:
collecting basic information about Jewish documentary holdings, compiling a
list of archives containing documents in Jewish history and lists of Jewish
files and files with sizable Jewish contents in them; preparing lists of
the above files for every archive where Jewish documents were found;
preparing a detailed description of each of the files.

Presently, the JHS archival data base contains a comprehensive list of
about 1000 Jewish files in 90 (out of 150) archives of the CIS and the
Baltic republics and detailed description of Jewish files in 12 archives of
Moscow, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Lvov, Zhitomir, Riga, Vilnius. The assembled
material has formed the basis of the JHS "Jewish Archive" series with six
issues already published.

The "Jewish Archive" series provides to scholars all collected information
resources - finding aids, directories, surveys, and inventories of
documentary sources of Jewish history in repositories of the CIS and the
Baltic states. Those resources are available for users both in the form of
published surveys and on-line on the JHS home page.

The participants contributing to the program - amateur and professional
scholars, librarians and archivists - have formed the editorial board of
the "Jewish Archive" series. The editorial board invites new participants
to join its efforts by contributing surveys, source studies, copies of
archival records and inventories to share with Judaic scholars around the
world.

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