A Judaica Europeana virtual exhibition: Yiddish Theatre in London

Elizabeth SelbyJewish Museum London

Why produce a virtual exhibition?• A requirement of Judaica Europeana• Highlights your collection to remote users

around the world and puts it in to historical context

• Not confined by physical space • A range of media can be used to bring your

subject to life – images, film and sound• Enables interaction with your visitors (user

generated content, feedback forms)

Yiddish theatre collections at the JML

Digitisation of collections• Yiddish theatre

collection digitised for project

• Includes Yiddish typewriter used by the playwright and prompter Abish Meisels (1896-1959).

• Have also digitised costumes, programmes and posters

The finished exhibition

• Web design by Europeana using Omeka – http://omeka.org

• Simply organised by themes with choice of images for each, highlighting our extensive photography collection

• http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/yiddish-theatre-en

Our next exhibition

• A history of British Jewry in 50 objects• Should be online by late November