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Digital Collections
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
National portal to digital content from Germany's cultural and scientific institutions. Provides access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, music and film.
Europeana
Resources from European archives, broadcasters, museums, universities, research institutes and private collectors.
DigiBaeck
Access to digital collections at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, NY. A significant repository of primary source material and scholarship on the Jewish communities of Central Europe over the past five centuries.
Emblematica Online
Digital library of emblematica contains 1,388 freely accessible facsimiles of rare, and even unique, emblem books from the following libraries: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; Glasgow University, Utrecht University, Duke University, and the Getty Research Institute. Users can search and browse books from all of the collections named above.
Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt
A digital library of 16th century prints and manuscripts, with focus on Martin Luther. Includes Latin and German texts.
Bibliotheca Palatina
After centuries of separation, one of the most valuable collections of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age – the Bibliotheca Palatina – has been virtually reunited. Heidelberg University Library digitised not only the German manuscripts in its own holdings but also the Latin codices of this "mother of all libraries", housed in Rome for nearly 400 years within the walls of the Vatican Library, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
MDZ: Munich DigitiZation Center
Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) handles the digitization and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany, now comprising more than 900,000 titles available online.
Websites
German History in Documents and Images
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.
Key Documents of German-Jewish History
This online source edition published by the Institute for the History of German Jews uses a selection of sources, so-called key documents, to thematically highlight central aspects in Hamburg’s Jewish history from the early modern age to the present.
Words without Borders
Founded in 2003, Words Without Borders promotes cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature.
