Fw: News from YIVO, January 22, 2003 - Photo Catalog Now Online

[Judith Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Let me forward this excellent news from YIVO.  Some photos of musicians. You
have to sign up and register to search the catalog.

Judy
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From: "Roberta Newman" <rnewman (at) yivo(dot)cjh(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: News from YIVO, January 22, 2003 - Photo Catalog Now Online


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> NEW!
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> YIVO is pleased to announce the debut of the new Internet edition of
People
> of a Thousand Towns, a catalog of
> 17,000 photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe at
> http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org.
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> Drawn from the large photographic collections of the YIVO Archives, the
> photos document Jewish life in large Jewish centers as well as many
smaller
> towns and villages from the late nineteenth century to the early 1940s.
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> An earlier edition of People Of A Thousand Towns was created as a
videodisc
> in 1981-1987 with funds from the Charles H. Revson Foundation. The 2003
> edition of the catalog was made possible with funds from the Conference on
> Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and was developed in consultation
> with the New York firm Data Based Media.
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