Yiddish Book Center
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Rescuing and preserving an entire culture
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
About the project
- Highly flexible Drupal website combined with online archives
- Representing their unrivalled archives online
- Successfully incorporating Yiddish and Roman search and display
- Uniting five distinct archives of books and recordings for the first time
- Underpinned by a comprehensive digital strategy
The Yiddish Book Center is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language as well as the culture and history those books represent.
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Following digital strategy consultancy, the new site that Cogapp and the Center built together is a highly flexible Drupal website combined with online archives, uniting five distinct archives of books and recordings for the first time.
The new website that we built together uses a custom 'data mill' to extract and combine metadata on their disparate archives, so that they can be presented together and searched seamlessly.
![Screenshots showing the Yiddish language keyboard and search filters](https://cogapp-website-files-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Case-studies/_427xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/ybc_keyboard.jpg)
The Center needed a flexible website that would allow them to tell their stories the way they want to. For the first-time, they are now able to use Yiddish throughout the site, and the site and archives can be searched in Yiddish and English.
The Yiddish Book Center rescued and preserved a culture. We are proud to have helped them in the next stage of their mission: sharing that culture with the world.