Yeshiva University (Yeshiva University Museum)

The Yeshiva University Museum will collaborate with the Center for Jewish History to digitize 61 Torah binders, called wimpels. The project will serve as a pilot for a digitization initiative that will bring images and data for all the museum's holdings online. Project activities will include creating digital surrogates of these decorative fabric sashes that wrap around the Torah scrolls and are at risk for environmental damage. The project team will also enhance the associated metadata records and make them available through an online public access catalog. As a result of the project, researchers and students will have greater access to this material culture, and the museum will be able to digitally preserve items in their current state before they suffer further deterioration.