Jewish Heritage Report
Vol. I, No. 2 / Summer 1997
Web Watch
WEB WATCH
BRUCE KAHN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC INDEX
http://www.memo.com/jgsr/database/photo.cgi
This database is an index of photographs of Jewish sites in Europe
photographed by Bruce Kahn, president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of
Rochester. The majority of the photographs are of Lithuania, and present
the most up-to-date images of Jewish monuments in that country.
DIRECTORY OF JEWISH MUSEUMS
http://www.jewishmuseums.com/direct.shtml
A complete directory of Jewish museums features members of the Council
of American Jewish Museums and links to Jewish museums from around the
world.
VIRTUAL RESTORATION OF SMALL-TOWN SYNAGOGUES IN TEXAS
http://www.neosoft/com/~tjhs/VRsyn.html
This site provides multiple views of computer generated models of Texas
synagogues created by Robert Davis, the site’s founder. Some of the sites
are navigable 3-D models and at least one has a sound clip. The computer
images give a good idea of the dimensions and massing of the buildings
and their spatial arrangements, but one loses a great amount of detail.
For example, the model of the "clapboard-Moorish" synagogue of
Corsicana looks much more solid and substantial than the real thing. Some
of the detail, especially exterior siding, is visible in photos which are
also posted. Information on Texas Jewish cemeteries is also provided at
the site, including for many, lists of those buried. Despite shortcomings,
this is most advanced and innovative website for synagogue architecture,
and its a good introduction to vernacular American synagogue styles.
U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
http://www.ushmm.org
In addition to some of the museum's catalogs and finding aids, archive
and library holdings can also be searched. Some photos can be accessed,
but most original materials are not available over the Internet.
INDEX TO THE FIRST ELEVEN VOLUMES OF AVOTAYNU
http://www.avotaynu.com/indexsum.html
The international genealogical journal AVOTAYNU maintains an index
to selected articles that appeared in the first eleven volumes (1985-95)
of the publication. Searches can be initiated for specific research topics
and back issues ordered.
JEWISHGEN SHTETL SEEKER
http://www1.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.html
Searches for towns in Central and Eastern Europe using the Daitch-Mokotoff
Soundex System will display latitude and longitude for each location, as
well as distance to the country's capital city. You can also list all of
the towns (with multiple spellings) within a certain distance of given
latitude/longitude coordinates.
THE GREAT SHTETL HUNT
http://www.613./daitch/shtetl.html
Created by Randy Daitch, researchers can link to geographical information
by clicking on the words "Gazetteer," "Shtetl Seeker"
and "Shtetl Browser." "Gazetteer" links to the GEOnet
Name Server, an online version of the US Board on Geographic Names' comprehensive
database of every locality in the world. For more information about genealogy
Web Sites, see AVOTAYNU®, Vol. XII, No. 4, Winter 1996, 21-25.
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