28-31 October 2023
From October 28 to 31, the Taube Department of Jewish Studies hosted an international mapping workshop organized by the Digital Forum of the European Association of Jewish Studies. The event was coordinated by a team consisting of Prof. Bart Wallet, Dr. Oleksii Chebotarov, Prof. Marcin Wodziński, and Anna Zabraniak. The workshop was intended for young researchers from…
16 July 2018
Session I: Humanities in the Mirror: Writing Jewish History in a Digital Key
Technological developments have the potential for changing the way we access, publish, and study rabbinic texts. We report on several areas in which our overlapping projects make use of these new opportunities. Computational approaches, and in particularly the application of the automatic transcription and linguistic enrichment of the text of Medieval Hebrew manuscripts…
6–7 February 2017
Turning the Page: Jewish Print Cultures & Digital Humanities
In recent years, major digitization projects focused on digital imaging and new forms of text editions. They made texts widely accessible and reshaped approaches to the study of Hebrew manuscripts. However, there is less cooperation between Jewish Studies (JS) and the Digital Humanities (DH) with regard to printed texts. The Roundtable aims, therefore, to provide time…
