Submissions are invited for a special issue of the journal 'Eastern European Holocaust Studies', the interdisciplinary journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre, published by De Gruyter. This special issue aims to explore the growing role of quantitative methods, ranging from statistical techniques to natural language processing to deep learning and data visualizations in Holocaust research. We invite scholars from diverse fields, including history, sociology, demography, economics, and digital humanities, to submit abstracts.

The Elyonim veTachtonim project (Heb. “those above and those below”, a merism for the totality of divine creation) offers two databases of supernatural entities in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud.

On 18 June 2024, the international academic conference “Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age” took place in Warsaw. The conference recording is now available, find out more on this page.

This conference aims at contextualizing Hebrew literature and exploring its creation from a European Jewish Studies and Hebrew Literature scholarly perspective. Moreover, we would like to establish a connection with researchers focusing also on the reception and perception of the rising Hebrew literature from the perspective of its surrounding cultures, mainly Yiddish, German, French, and various Eastern European literary traditions. Deadline for abstracts: 27 July 2024.

Since the mid-1980s, the structure of all major audiovisual Holocaust archives has rested on the conceptual triangulation of 'testimony', the 'witness', and 'survival'. The audiovisual testimony becomes the organising unit of the digital Holocaust archive and thus determines its serial logic. This webinar will discuss these conceptual problems and suggest a novel approach to Holocaust audiovisual archives, through the digital reconstruction of social networks.

The Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies will take place from 15-19 December 2024 online. This year it features for the first time a Digital Humanities division.

The second international #DHJewish Conference, including a Hackathon, will take place from 10-12 April 2024 in Potsdam. The program is out now.

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.