Jewish Studies in the Digital Age

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Jewish Studies in the Digital Age

Edited by: Gerben Zaagsma , Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra , Miriam Rürup , Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi
Funded by: University of Luxembourg

Volume 5 in the series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828

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As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to　interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and histories, of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls?

The articles in this volume were originally presented at the international conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, which was organised at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at University of Luxembourg in January 2021. The first big international conference of its kind, it brought together more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to discuss how the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies.

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Michelle Margolis, New York; Amalia S. Levi, Barbados; Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Paris; Miriam Rürup, Potsdam; Gerben Zaagsma, Luxembourg.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Introduction Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi Open Access Download PDF	1
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Digitizing Holocaust Memories Jeffrey Shandler Open Access Download PDF	23
The Culture of the Very Rich and Very Poor: Do Digital Museum Collections Tell us Anything about Jewish Culture? Inna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Julia Afanasieva, Diana Pusenkova, Maria Sherer and Daniil Skorinkin Open Access Download PDF	43
How “Tools” Produce “Data”: Searching in a Large Digital Corpus of Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies Jakub Mlynář, Jiří Kocián and Karin Hofmeisterová Open Access Download PDF	65
N-gram-based Content Indexing: Semiautomated Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies Anna Bonazzi Open Access Download PDF	89
Spatiality
Mapping Forced Academic Migration Sinja Clavadetscher, Stefanie Mahrer and Stefanie Salvisberg Open Access Download PDF	105
The GIS prism: Beyond the Myth of Stockholm’s Ostjuden Maja Hultman Open Access Download PDF	125
Archival Research, Virtual Reality, and 3D Modeling: Toward a Comprehensive Reconstruction of the Ghetto of Florence Piergabriele Mancuso Open Access Download PDF	147
Introducing “Kol ha-Nekudot”/“All the Points”/“Kull al-Nuqaṭ”: Interactive, Online Mapping of the Israeli-Palestinian Region (1840–Present) Daniel Stein Kokin Open Access Download PDF	169
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The Digital Humanities and the Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Extract and Analyze Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers Benjamin Charles Germain Lee Open Access Download PDF	189
Using Nodegoat to Track Gendered Political Networks: Henrietta Klotz’s Influence on Henry Morgenthau Jr.’s Advocacy for Jewish Refugees and the State of Israel Abby Gondek Open Access Download PDF	215
Constructing the Modern Jewish “Present”: Time and Time Cycles in HaTzfira Zef M. Segal Open Access Download PDF	245
“Not a Day Without a Line”: Studying the Petitions of Soviet Jewish Refuseniks with the Visualization Tools in R Tatsiana Astrouskaya Open Access Download PDF	269
Computational
Digitizing Kennicott’s Collation of the Hebrew Bible: Experiences of Encoding and of Computer-assisted Stemmatic Analysis Luigi Bambaci Open Access Download PDF	299
Automatic Identification of Biblical Citations and Allusions in Hebrew Texts Avi Shmidman Open Access Download PDF	335
Is a Deep Learning Algorithm Effective for the Classification of Medieval Hebrew Scripts? Daria Vasyutinsky Shapira, Irina Rabaev, Ahmad Droby, Berat Kurar Barakat and Jihad El-Sana Open Access Download PDF	349
Projecting Punctuation From an Interpolated Translation and Commentary Joshua Waxman Open Access Download PDF	363
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	377

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of digital history, digital humanities, jewish history, and heritage studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 382
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 86
- Tables: 15
- Coloured Tables: 1
Keywords: Jewish Studies; Digital Humanities; Digital History; Digital Heritage

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Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110744828

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Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110744699