This year, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding a variety of new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/). Below is the list of titles currently slated to be added to GHN in the Spring and Summer of 2023.
Titles funded by the Chattooga County Historical Society
Summerville News, 1949-1979
Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service
Augusta Voice, 1995-2007
Hazlehurst News, 1909-1929
Monticello News, 1903-1927
Titles digitized in partnership with Georgia State University
News (Atlanta Gay Center), 1984-1995
Titles digitized in partnership with Kennesaw State University
Southern Voice, 1995
Titles funded by Mercer UniversityArchives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives
MercerCluster (Macon), 1970-1990
Titles funded by Middle Georgia State University Library
Kernel (Cochran), 1930-1970, 1987
Titles funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Selected by statewide cultural heritage stakeholders and funded by the DLG’s competitive digitization grant program, this collection is the Augusta Jewish Museum’s first collaboration with the DLG and is available here:
The collection contains historical materials dating from 1850 to 2022 that come from a diverse group of Jewish creators, including youth, women, clergy, fraternities, and congregations that offer unique insights into the greater Augusta, Georgia region’s Jewish life, philanthropy, foodways, and experiences.
Rabbi David Sirull of the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue in Augusta emphasizes the importance of making this work accessible freely online.
“It is important that we remember our place in history as we move to the future. The Augusta Jewish Museum allows for valuable content to be procured, preserved, and disseminated that tells the story of Jewish heritage in the Central Savannah River Area that encompasses the Augusta, Georgia area…This content is invaluable to researchers in defining the ways of Jewish life in the Southeast.”
About the Augusta Jewish Museum
The Augusta Jewish Museum and its programming chronicle the life, history, and contributions of the Jewish community in the Central Savannah River Area. The museum also educates about Jewish traditions, remembering the Holocaust, and Israel–the land and its people. Their website is: https://www.augustajewishmuseum.org/.
About the Digital Library of Georgia
Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative that collaborates with Georgia’s libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life. This primary mission is accomplished by developing, maintaining, and preserving digital collections and online digital library resources. DLG also serves as Georgia’s service hub for the Digital Public Library of America and as the home of the Georgia Newspaper Project, the state’s historic newspaper microfilming project. Visit the DLG at dlg.usg.edu.
Selected images from the collections:
Title: Book of Handwritten Poetry, Rosina Hendricks Levy URL:https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2019-003-010Collection: Augusta Jewish Museum Collection Courtesy of the Augusta Jewish MuseumDescription: Paper-bound book of poetry bound with twine into a single volume, handwritten pages. Rosina’s Book of Poetry is an essential part of local Jewish history as a rich, female, first-person perspective of the beginning of the Jewish congregation in Augusta. Rosina Hendricks, daughter of the first Jewish family who arrived in Augusta in 1802, authored this book that remains unpublished. Written throughout her adult life, the book includes poems written to her husband and children, on life in Georgia and the South, and on Judaism and her experiences as a Jewish woman. She played a key role in establishing the religious school that would eventually become the Congregation Children of Israel.
Title: “United for Worship and Charity” by Jack Steinberg URL:https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2022-005-004 Collection: Augusta Jewish Museum Collection Courtesy of the Augusta Jewish Museum Description: Staple-bound booklet about the history and community of Congregation Children of Israel, authored by Jack SteinbergTitle: Daughters of Israel Cook Book, page 8 of 88 URL:https://dlg.usg.edu/record/augjm_augjmc_2021-054-001 Collection: Augusta Jewish Museum Collection Courtesy of the Augusta Jewish Museum Description: Synagogue Cookbook (1950s), Paper spiral bound with plastic spine, published by the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue’s (AYS) Daughters of Israel.
