The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project is please to announce the opening to the public of a digitized version of the Frankfurt Memorbuch, one of the most important sources of genealogical data on German Jewry.
The Frankfurt Memorbuch is a massive 1073 page manuscript documenting the deaths of important members of the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, one of the most important communities of Germany Jewry, over a period of almost 300 years (1628-1907). The notations are generally in the form of the yizkor prayer "May God remember the soul of ..." followed by biographical data, much of which is a description of the piety and good qualities of the deceased. The site includes page and chronological indexes (the entries in the manuscript itself are often not in exact chronological order) as well as an essay on the Memorbuch in both Hebrew and English by the late Cecil Roth (first published in 1965 and presented here with permission of the Cecil Roth Trust). The digitized manuscript is presented in the DjVu format which provides high quality, magnifiable images compressed into relatively small files for easy downloading. In order to view these images it is necessary to download and install (once) the free DjVu viewer program. To access the Memorbuch: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb1092/index_eng.html (English site) or http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/heb1092/index.html (Hebrew site) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elhanan Adler Deputy Director for Information Technology Jewish National and University Library P.O.B. 39105, Jerusalem 91390, Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: 972-2-6585005, FAX: 972-2-6511771, Home tel.: 972-2-6515977 Mobile tel.: 972-54-6829657 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
