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

• Superior document: Studies in digital history and hermeneutics ; 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Chesner, Michelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in digital history and hermeneutics ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 382 pages) :; illustrations.

"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.

Table of 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.