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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Index to Yiddish Periodicals Project, in cooperation with the Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce opening of access to an experimental Internet version of the Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) database. The IYP database contains about 170,000 bibliographic records with interfaces in both English and Yiddish. IYP uses Aleph-500 software and is the first Aleph-500 application to extensively use Hebrew/Yiddish vowel points and diacritic marks. We wish to thank the Ex-Libris Company for the special development work to make this possible. Access the IYP database at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/iyp/ Introductory information on the Index follows: Introduction The Index to Yiddish Periodicals is a bibliographical data base using Yiddish, which aims to record the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) until 1939 (in the Soviet Union: until 1948). This ongoing bibliographical project is carried out under the auspices of the Yiddish Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in cooperation with the Jewish National and University Library. This bibliographical data base includes all signed materials, whether they carry the real name of their author or a pseudonym. It doesn't register unsigned news or articles, except when these deal with issues related to Yiddish literature and culture. The ALEPH search interface gives the user numerous options to browse the data base: name of author, title, source, date, genre (for literary works), subject (for journalistic articles). The thematic index in particular allows the browser to reach the wealth of information published in the Yiddish press, especially about Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and abroad, political and cultural Jewish movements, institutions, Yiddish and Hebrew writers and actors, trends in all fields of Jewish Culture. The thematic index registers materials published in the Yiddish press about general subjects as well. At the present the "Index to Yiddish Periodicals" comprises approximately 170,000 bibliographic records, covering the following segments of the East European Yiddish Press: - All available Yiddish periodicals published in Czarist Russia (1862-1917) of all kinds and frequencies - newspapers, journals, etc. - A full run of the major Yiddish daily newspapers published in Warsaw - Haynt and Moment, from their inception until the Holocaust. - The major Yiddish periodicals published in interwar Poland in the fields of culture, literature, politics and pedagogy, including a full run of the weekly Literarishe bleter (1924-1939), as well as the two most important weeklies printed in Rumania in that period: Arbeter-tsaytung (1921-1931) and Tshernovitser bleter (1929-1937). - The major Yiddish literary, cultural and pedagogical periodicals published in Ukraine, Russia and Soviet Russia in the years 1917-1948, including a full run of Eynikayt (1942-1948). Academic Head of the Project: Prof. Avraham Novershtern Editor-in-chief: Vera Solomon Editors: Moyshe Lemster, Eliezer Niborski, Amy Simon The project is supported by the Abraham Icchok Lerner Fund, The Yiddish Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elhanan ##################################################################### # 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
