Datenbank zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik
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Lead programmer
- Thomas Kollatz
Description
Datenbank zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik (Epidat) is a database of 47 000 Jewish funerary inscriptions in Europe, mostly Germany, with German translations and metadata. Periods: late mediaeval, early modern age, modern age, post war. Contents are delivered via a Tustep database and can be exported in EpiDoc TEI XML. Hosted by the Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History, Essen.
From the Epidat website (English version; accessed 2023-08-03):
Epidat - The Database of Jewish epigraphy - provides the inventory, documentation, editions and presentation of epigraphical collections. Currently online are available 259 digital editions with 47074 epitaphs (85484 image files).
Since March 2019 epidat is jointly developed within the framework of a scientific cooperation between the Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim-Institute, Essen and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.