Gidal Image Archive
Gidal Image Archive contains information on the image collection from Ignaz Nachum Gidalewitsch.
The Gidal Photography Collection comprises approximately 3,000 pictures documenting the history of Jews in Germany and Europe, covering in particular the areas of:
important Jewish persons (approx. 1,200 pictures) Biblical and antique motives Jewish world history culture and religion anti-Semitism and Nazism Link to the collection: Gidal-archive
The original collection has since been enlarged by:
pictorial documents from the estate of the actress and cabaret artist Ruth Klinger, mainly on the Yiddish cabaret “Kaftan” in Berlin, which she founded and directed from 1930 to 1933 together with her husband Maxim Sakaschansky, and on the author Arnold Zweig, whose secretary she was in Haifa from 1943 to 1947, a large number of photos and picture postcards with the focus on Eastern Europe (synagogues, schools, etc.) from the Werner Seewi collection, which was given to the institute on permanent loan.
The Gidal Image Archive is a collection from the Steinheim Institute, maintained by Harald Lordick.
| Kind: | Records |
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| Method: | Converted, Curated |
| Source: | https://www.steinheim-institut.de/wiki/index.php/Archive:Gidal-Bildarchiv |
| Example: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/gba/Moses_Mendelssohn |
| URI namespaces: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/gba/ |
| Maintained by: | Kai Eckert |
| License: |
CC BY 4.0
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| FID portal: | This dataset in the catalogue of the FID Jewish Studies |
| Generator: | generators/gba (how every version was made) |
| All locations: | Where the files of this dataset are (data finder) |
Versions
2026-10-18 stable · Kai Eckert
Made by the framework from gidal.csv (2022-07-08), with common terms instead of terms invented in the GND namespace.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gba.ttl.gz | 3.0 kB | 202 | ae7d84aeba44… |
| gba-meta.ttl.gz | 2.6 kB | 71 | 0ddca80c71f6… |
2025-03-21 older · Benjamin Schnabel
Data files of the catalogue state judaicalink-site 81b42a5 (the state Frankfurt loaded).
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gba-final-01.ttl.gz | 2.9 kB | 33fe2d67b4c6… |
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| gba-meta.ttl.gz | 2.2 kB | 58 | 6a424995d274… |
Changelog
- 2026-10-18 (version 2026-10-18), Kai Eckert: Common terms instead of gndo:birthDate, gndo:occupation and other terms the GND ontology does not have; relations as gndo:relatedPerson; links to the GND and to the archive’s search by GND number.
- 2026-10-12, Kai Eckert: Licence name corrected to CC BY 4.0 (was “CC4.0”); the licence URI is unchanged.
- 2022-07-08, Benjamin Schnabel: First version.
