Zayt is a digital archive for Czech Jewish genealogy.
With powerful search and a modern reading interface, Zayt can help you find and understand records of births, marriages, deaths, court proceedings, real estate transactions, and more.
So far we've backed up 4,350 books, totaling 320,000 pages of Jewish records.
How is this different from VadeMeCum?
Zayt is built for English-speaking genealogy researchers. You can search by place name in a variety of languages, filter based on places, date ranges, and life events, download entire books as PDFs for your records, and leave comments to collaborate with other researchers. It's a modern, fast, and easy-to-use archival research tool.
Most genealogists know the feeling of clicking a link that turns out to be dead. Zayt converts Badatelna and VadeMeCum links—even to long-dead pages. And once you're researching with Zayt, your work is safe: every page of every book has a permanent, human-readable URL, and every book is downloadable.
Who's running it?
Abe Jellinek. I'm a software engineer in New York City. If you have comments or suggestions, find a bug, or just want to say hi, don't hesitate to get in touch.
If you find this project useful and want to help support its development and hosting costs, please consider donating on Ko-fi ❤️
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