The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University hosted the website launch and online Symposium about ongoing work in the Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies, A World Beyond: Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey on October 18 and 19, 2021. The event, held in Memory of Prof. Bernard Lewis z"l, included three sessions, as well as an introduction to the A World Beyond database, the culmination of many years of dedicated research by Prof. Minna Rozen, which provides access to a collection that combines digital images and textual content of nearly 60,000 Jewish gravestones from a variety of communities in Turkey from 1583 until 1990.
The full program can be found here.
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The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University hosted the website launch and online Symposium about ongoing work in the Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies, A World Beyond: Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey on October 18 and 19, 2021. The event, held in Memory of Prof. Bernard Lewis z"l, included three sessions, as well as an introduction to the A World Beyond database, the culmination of many years of dedicated research by Prof. Minna Rozen, which provides access to a collection that combines digital images and textual content of nearly 60,000 Jewish gravestones from a variety of communities in Turkey from 1583 until 1990.
The full program can be found here.