Till Schicketanz/Kay Heiligenhaus»Inseln im Meer des Beliebigen«.Architektur und Implementierung eines InternetportalsDeutsch-jüdische PeriodikaAbstractHans Otto Horch zum 60. GeburtstagHistorical newspapers and journals are invaluable sources for the studyof the past. Especially, Jewish periodicals provide a detailed impressionof the cultural development of Jewry and shed a quite different light onGerman history. Yet, it is tremendously difficult to obtain and to investi-gate these sources: Besides>normal< losses(paper destruction et cetera), agreat stock of Jewish newspapers was destroyed under the Nazi regimeor are scattered all over the world ­ a fact, that forces a researcher to ex-pensive stays in different libraries or archives and compels librarians toan extra burden of work. Within the funding programScientific LibraryServices and Information Systemsof the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft the Aachen Chair of German-Jewish Literary History, the Colognelibrary Germania Judaica and the Town and University Library Frank-furt/Main carry out a digitization project, which already provides morethan twenty representative periodicals, containing about 300.000 imagesin the WWW.The essay emphasizes the implications and the broad range of pro-blems as well as their solutions in the process of digitizing periodicals. Adiscussion of the project's technological goals demonstrates the singlestrategies und procedures to publish large amounts of images, text andbibliographical data in an economic and structured way.1.Das Informationszeitalter begrüßt den Philologen, so will es scheinen,jeden Tag mit einer Überraschung ­ zumindest, was die Unterstützungseiner Arbeit durch Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologienbetrifft. Die Pionierleistungen der Computerphilologie ­ an deutschenUniversitäten etwa erste, seit den späten 1960er Jahren mit Großrech-nern und Lochkarten erstellte Textanalysen, Indices und Editionen ­ lie-