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The #DHJewish website aggregates news, events, projects + more about #JewishStudies and #DigitalHumanities. Eds by @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social and @mmargolis.bsky.social. Hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).
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The DHJewish project is moving from X to BlueSky and we will soon resume updates on all things #DHJewish here. Stay tuned and spread the word! 🙏📢
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Come and join us in Warsaw: CfP for the international conference "Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Era"
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Call for Papers: "Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Era" | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
This international conference will convene leading experts and emerging scholars to forge concrete action plans for academic and cultural institutions to effectively confront Holocaust distortion in t...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Come and join us in Warsaw: CfP for the international conference "Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Era"
polin.pl/en/event/cal...
polin.pl/en/event/cal...
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#CfA | Hands-on Workshop: Wikidata für die Jüdische Studien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz 8.–9. September 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Bewerbungsfrist: 18. Juli 2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 18. Juli 2025
June 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
#CfA | Hands-on Workshop: Wikidata für die Jüdische Studien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz 8.–9. September 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Bewerbungsfrist: 18. Juli 2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 18. Juli 2025
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Conference: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17833
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17833
Conference: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities
According to their call, “[t]he Centre for Eastern European Jewish History at Vilnius University and the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław invite proposals for the intern...
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June 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Conference: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17833
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17833
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#CfA | EAJS announces second round of the Small Research Grant Program for 2024-25 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/eajs...
Deadline for applications: May 29, 2025
Deadline for applications: May 29, 2025
May 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#CfA | EAJS announces second round of the Small Research Grant Program for 2024-25 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/eajs...
Deadline for applications: May 29, 2025
Deadline for applications: May 29, 2025
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#PosenLibrary is introducing a new initiative - Posen Library Digital Curriculum Development Fellowship, to help create educational materials for Posen Library digital platform.
For more info:
www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship
#DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment
For more info:
www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship
#DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment
Fellowship
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.
www.posenlibrary.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#PosenLibrary is introducing a new initiative - Posen Library Digital Curriculum Development Fellowship, to help create educational materials for Posen Library digital platform.
For more info:
www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship
#DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment
For more info:
www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship
#DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment
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Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference
At: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
April 7-8
www.brandeis.edu/israel-cente...
#DHJewish
At: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
April 7-8
www.brandeis.edu/israel-cente...
#DHJewish
Digital Humanities in Israel Studies
www.brandeis.edu
March 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference
At: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
April 7-8
www.brandeis.edu/israel-cente...
#DHJewish
At: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
April 7-8
www.brandeis.edu/israel-cente...
#DHJewish
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Isaac L. Bleaman (UC, Berkeley) recently launched the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation. Michelle Margolis (Columbia University) interviews him:
ingeveb.org/blog/corpus-...
ingeveb.org/blog/corpus-...
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Isaac L. Bleaman (UC, Berkeley) recently launched the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation. Michelle Margolis (Columbia University) interviews him:
ingeveb.org/blog/corpus-...
ingeveb.org/blog/corpus-...
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Now that EHRI is an #ERIC (and no longer a project), we have a new governance structure. We are delighted to present the elected Chair and Vice-Chair of the General Assembly and the Founding Director: Naďa Dřizga, Moritz Wein and Reto Speck. More info: www.ehri-project.eu/first-meetin...
February 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Now that EHRI is an #ERIC (and no longer a project), we have a new governance structure. We are delighted to present the elected Chair and Vice-Chair of the General Assembly and the Founding Director: Naďa Dřizga, Moritz Wein and Reto Speck. More info: www.ehri-project.eu/first-meetin...
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First EHRI Webinar on this Wednesday 19 February 2025:
"Placing the Holocaust" with Anne Knowles from the Uni of Maine.
Knowles leads the first digital humanities project to directly link GIS data to oral histories.
Join our free webinar on Zoom at 3 PM CET: www.ehri-project.eu/next-ehri-we...
"Placing the Holocaust" with Anne Knowles from the Uni of Maine.
Knowles leads the first digital humanities project to directly link GIS data to oral histories.
Join our free webinar on Zoom at 3 PM CET: www.ehri-project.eu/next-ehri-we...
February 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
First EHRI Webinar on this Wednesday 19 February 2025:
"Placing the Holocaust" with Anne Knowles from the Uni of Maine.
Knowles leads the first digital humanities project to directly link GIS data to oral histories.
Join our free webinar on Zoom at 3 PM CET: www.ehri-project.eu/next-ehri-we...
"Placing the Holocaust" with Anne Knowles from the Uni of Maine.
Knowles leads the first digital humanities project to directly link GIS data to oral histories.
Join our free webinar on Zoom at 3 PM CET: www.ehri-project.eu/next-ehri-we...
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🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
Have you seen this book?
Since we as trainees get the chance to visit many libraries, and spend a lot of time in them day-to-day, I thought I would introduce to you a different kind of library today: The Library of Lost Bo…
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
EAJS Digital Forum: Jour Fixe Meeting this Friday 14/02: Ophir Münz-Manor on ‘How to integrate Digital Humanities into teaching Jewish Studies’.
For more information and registration: www.eurojewishstudies.org/events/digit...
#DHJewish #JewishStudies #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
For more information and registration: www.eurojewishstudies.org/events/digit...
#DHJewish #JewishStudies #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
EAJS Digital Forum: Jour Fixe Meeting , 14 February 2025, 10:00-11:30am CET – European Association for Jewish Studies
www.eurojewishstudies.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
EAJS Digital Forum: Jour Fixe Meeting this Friday 14/02: Ophir Münz-Manor on ‘How to integrate Digital Humanities into teaching Jewish Studies’.
For more information and registration: www.eurojewishstudies.org/events/digit...
#DHJewish #JewishStudies #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
For more information and registration: www.eurojewishstudies.org/events/digit...
#DHJewish #JewishStudies #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
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This #HMD we are launching a new online platform allowing readers around the world digital access to many of our most important collections.
Wiener Digital Collections’ state-of-the-art viewer will create an important tool for Holocaust research and education, and for combatting antisemitism...
Wiener Digital Collections’ state-of-the-art viewer will create an important tool for Holocaust research and education, and for combatting antisemitism...
January 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This #HMD we are launching a new online platform allowing readers around the world digital access to many of our most important collections.
Wiener Digital Collections’ state-of-the-art viewer will create an important tool for Holocaust research and education, and for combatting antisemitism...
Wiener Digital Collections’ state-of-the-art viewer will create an important tool for Holocaust research and education, and for combatting antisemitism...
Flashback: in April last year the 2nd #DHJewish conference + hackathon was held at @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social.
Find the program here: tinyurl.com/28pn6c2s
And read more in these two conference reports:
- On H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
- On the EAJS website: tinyurl.com/29jzy8ps.
Find the program here: tinyurl.com/28pn6c2s
And read more in these two conference reports:
- On H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
- On the EAJS website: tinyurl.com/29jzy8ps.
The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon
What is the value of the digital in Jewish Studies, and how can we learn from previous work and apply it to future endeavours? In recent years, the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital Humanitie...
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January 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Flashback: in April last year the 2nd #DHJewish conference + hackathon was held at @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social.
Find the program here: tinyurl.com/28pn6c2s
And read more in these two conference reports:
- On H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
- On the EAJS website: tinyurl.com/29jzy8ps.
Find the program here: tinyurl.com/28pn6c2s
And read more in these two conference reports:
- On H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...
- On the EAJS website: tinyurl.com/29jzy8ps.
Exciting news #dhjewish #yiddish: the Yiddish Book Center has updated its full-text search site: ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Exciting news #dhjewish #yiddish: the Yiddish Book Center has updated its full-text search site: ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org
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Really excited to be working with @marinelives.bsky.social on this. #Yiddish /Transkribus/ #HTR people: we are cooking up something that will hopefully, eventually be super useful to you.
I am working with @beismo.bsky.social to fine-tune two small large language models to correct raw machine transcription of Yiddish in Hebrew script. We plan to show the results this coming Tuesday at our next ai-and-history-collaboratory @timhitchcock.bsky.social @mark-l-thompson.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Really excited to be working with @marinelives.bsky.social on this. #Yiddish /Transkribus/ #HTR people: we are cooking up something that will hopefully, eventually be super useful to you.
The DHJewish project is moving from X to BlueSky and we will soon resume updates on all things #DHJewish here. Stay tuned and spread the word! 🙏📢
January 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The DHJewish project is moving from X to BlueSky and we will soon resume updates on all things #DHJewish here. Stay tuned and spread the word! 🙏📢