Jewish studies in the digital age / edited by Michelle Chesner [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chesner, Michelle, editor.

Series:

Studies in digital history and hermeneutics ; 5.

Studies in digital history and hermeneutics ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Study and teaching (Higher)--Congresses.

Jews.

Digital humanities--Congresses.

Digital humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 382 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

"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?"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Introduction / Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi

COLLECTIONS

Digitizing Holocaust Memories / Jeffrey Shandler

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

How "Tools" Produce "Data": Searching in a Large Digital Corpus of Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies / Jakub Mlynár, Jirí Kocián and Karin Hofmeisterová

N-gram-based Content Indexing: Semiautomated Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies / Anna Bonazzi

SPATIALITY

Mapping Forced Academic Migration / Sinja Clavadetscher, Stefanie Mahrer and Stefanie Salvisberg

The GIS prism: Beyond the Myth of Stockholm's Ostjuden / Maja Hultman

Archival Research, Virtual Reality, and 3D Modeling: Toward a Comprehensive Reconstruction of the Ghetto of Florence / Piergabriele Mancuso

Introducing "Kol ha-Nekudot"/"All the Points"/"Kull al-Nuqa?": Interactive, Online Mapping of the Israeli-Palestinian Region (1840-Present) / Daniel Stein Kokin

TEXT

The Digital Humanities and the Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Extract and Analyze Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers / Benjamin Charles Germain Lee

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

Constructing the Modern Jewish "Present": Time and Time Cycles in HaTzfira / Zef M. Segal

"Not a Day Without a Line": Studying the Petitions of Soviet Jewish Refuseniks with the Visualization Tools in R / Tatsiana Astrouskaya

COMPUTATIONAL

Digitizing Kennicott's Collation of the Hebrew Bible: Experiences of Encoding and of Computer-assisted Stemmatic Analysis / Luigi Bambaci

Automatic Identification of Biblical Citations and Allusions in Hebrew Texts / Avi Shmidman

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

Projecting Punctuation From an Interpolated Translation and Commentary / Joshua Waxman

List of Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.