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The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon
The second international #DHJewish Conference, including a Hackathon, will take place from 10-12 April 2024 in Potsdam. The program is out now.
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Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
Final Call for Papers: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources. This is a pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, which will be held on Tuesday, 21st May, 2024, in Torino, Italy. The extended final date for paper submission is  28 February 2024.
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Jewish History Online - Jüdische Geschichte Online
The portal Jewish History online, hosted by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and developed in cooperation with the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, offers a bilingual (German/English) platform for meta-searching various digital projects in the field of Jewish history.
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Mapping Yiddish Publishing
This webmap of Yiddish literature is made from the bibliographic metadata of the ca. 13.000 texts in the Yiddish Book Center's digital collection. You can click the slider and use arrow keys or type to choose a year and see where in the world Yiddish literature was being published then.
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CFA: EAJS Nahmanides Programme - Artificial Intelligence and Teaching Jewish Studies in Europe
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) invites applications to the Nahmanides Programme for 2024. The purpose of the Nahmanides Programme is to fund workshops addressing specific issues and problems relating to the teaching of academic Jewish Studies in Europe. One grant of up to £6,500 will be awarded to fund a Nahmanides Workshop in the academic year 2023-24. For this call for submissions, the topic is Artificial Intelligence and Teaching Jewish Studies in Europe.
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EHRI Seminar in Vienna - What’s New in Austrian Holocaust Studies? Digital Tools & Methods
In the last decade, Austrian Holocaust research and education has gone digital. In this rapidly evolving framework, this EHRI Seminar addresses a number of questions about Holocaust research in the digital age. The seminar will take place from 16-18 January 2024, at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) in Vienna.
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International Conference - Quantifying the Holocaust: Classifying, Counting, Modeling: What Contribution to Holocaust History?
This international conference will be organized around three main themes that will examine the history of how the Holocaust, persecution, and extermination have been measured: 1/ the history of numbers; 2/ the uses and controversies surrounding the measurement of the Holocaust; and 3/ the contributions and limits of methods for collecting and analyzing quantitative material for understanding the Holocaust.
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digital Collection - Library of Congress
The Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress houses some 230 manuscripts written in Hebrew and in cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish.  It is a highly diverse collection with materials ranging from rabbinic responsa and commentary to poetry, Jewish magic, and folk medicine, and together they offer a rich, often intimate glimpse into Jewish life over the centuries.
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