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The Compact Memory collection comprises over 300 Jewish newspapers and journals of the German speaking area of the years 1768–1938 and beyond. These periodicals represent the complete religious, political, social, literary and academic spectrum of the Jewish community and the "Science of Judaism", thus constituting a major source for the research on Judaism in the Modern Age.

Through this interface the user can search the digitized version of the whole collection in fulltext mode. Results are shown by relevance and include, in addition to the text snippet, all metadata about the journal and the edition. For most of the journals are also available the links to the original PDF document of the collection, hosted by the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.