Credits & Acknowledgements
This is a Judaica Digital Humanities at the Penn Libraries project. Judaica Digital Humanities at the Penn Libraries is a robust program of projects and tools for experimental digital scholarship with Judaica collections, informed by digital humanities, Jewish studies, and cultural heritage approaches. Visit our website.
Project Directors: Nicky Agate, Assistant University Librarian for Research Data & Digital Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania Libraries;Arthur Mitchell Fraas, Senior Curator, Special Collections; Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
Project Manager: Emily Esten, Judaica Digital Humanities Project Coordinator
Content Editor: Arthur Kiron, Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
This phase of the Sabato Morais Digitization Project could not have gotten off the ground without a generous start-up gift from Marvin and Sybil Weiner and from their son and daughter-in-law, Herbert and Sheila Weiner. The Sabato Morais Digitization Project was completed thanks to two major, matching gifts from the Jesselson and Kaplan Family Foundations.
This project would not be possible without the assistance of the following:
- Mary Ellen Burd, Director of Strategic Communications
- Chandra Collins, Imaging Specialist
- Jessie Dummer, Digitization Project Coordinator
- Doug Emery, Special Collections Digital Content Programmer
- Cassandra Hradil, Digital Humanities Specialist
- Jesselson Family Foundation
- Michael Jesselson
- Michael Kanning, Senior Developer
- Kaplan Family Foundation
- Arnold and Deanne Kaplan
- Andrew Kimball, DevOps Engineer
- Kelsey LeClair, Imaging Specialist
- Emily Morton Owens, Assistant University Librarian, Digital Library Development & Systems
- Dennis Mullen, Digitization Specialist
- Heather Newlin, Cataloguer and Transcriber
- Michael Overgaard, Project Manager and TEI Encoder
- Marvin and Sybil Weiner
- Herbert and Sheila Weiner
Special thanks and credit to:
- Chris Clement, Former Senior Developer
- Kate Lynch, Former Senior Developer
- Will Noel, Former Associate Vice Provost for Special Collections & External Strategic Partnerships; Former Director of the * Kislak Center & the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Related Initiatives
The Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project is an international initiative to integrate digital technologies into the way we study early American Jewry. Its primary goal is to create an open access digital repository or “genizah” of physically dispersed primary sources that document the development of Jewish life in the western hemisphere from the 16th-19th centuries. More information can be found here.
Our third Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, The Sabato Morais Digitization Project, provides digital access to the writings and correspondence of Sabato Morais. His personal papers and publications, in turn, point researchers to primary sources that document the development of observant Jewish life in the broad context of Victorian culture on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. (More about Morais can be found here.) This project is of interest to scholars of American, Italian and Sephardic Jewish history, religious studies, immigration and ethnic studies, Hebrew language and the history of Biblical interpretation, and the history of scholarship. By making these writings and correspondence of Sabato Morais digitally available, researchers have access to primary sources that document the development of observant Jewish life in the broad context of Victorian culture on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. More information can be found here.