Title: Scholarly indexation, picturisation and digitisation of the estate of Leopold Zunz at the Jewish National and University Library Jerusalem Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 2006 – 2009   Project description: The handwritten estate of Leopold Zunz, one of the central figures of the “Science of Judaism,” founded in the 19th century, was rescued from the National Socialists in 1939 and has since been in possession of the National Library of Israel  (formerly Jewish National and University Library) Jerusalem. The aims of the project were to permanently preserve the valuable sources on German-Jewish culture and science of the 19th century contained in the estate by microfilming and open up the access of the estate to a wide range of users.   The picturisation and digitisation of the entire archive including its unique materials not only saved the respective documents from disintegration, but also enabled unrestricted, direct and worldwide access to the materials, which had formerly only been accessible to very few researchers without considerable effort. Future research into the “Science of Judaism” and the role of its founding father Leopold Zunz will undoubtedly benefit from the indexation actions carried out and thus open up a new chapter in the study of the “Science of Judaism”.   The project was realised in close cooperation between several specialised institutes in Halle, Düsseldorf and Jerusalem in cooperation with the “German Archives” department of the National Library in Jerusalem, the ULB Halle, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and the DFG’s Special Subject Collection 7.7 “Judaism” at the University Library in Frankfurt/Main.   Supplementary information and publications:   The project’s website can be accessed via http://www.jewish-archives.org. Furthermore, the results of the projects have been published:   Giuseppe Veltri, Evelyn Burkhardt, Grit Schorch, Till Schicketanz, Lutz Wiederhold: Die Digitalisierung des Leopold Zunz-Archivs : ein Projekt des Leopold Zunz Centers der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg im Kontext der Digitalen Bibliothek der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. In: ABI-Technik : Zeitschrift für Automation, Bau und Technik im Archiv-, Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen 29(2009), 78-89