Between 15-18 september 2022 the first ever DH Jewish Hackathon took place at the University of Potsdam. The hackathon was organised by the Potsdam Network for Digital Humanities, in cooperation with the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies. 

During the hackathon participants worked on nine different challenges, and took part in several input-and-discussion panels (sessions) in which colleagues presented ongoing work. Descriptions of all projects and a photo impression of all challenges can now be found on the hackathon website. 

During the hackathon we used the hashtag #DHJewish2022 and we created this experimental hashtag explorer of the hashtag archive. 

List of challenges:

• A Jewish Republic of Letters    
• Development of a Database for the Hebrew Novel from 1853 to the Present
• Matching German Jewish Biographies
• How to link DH Jewish projects. A dummy guide to LOD
• Jewish-related Archive Catalogues    
• Mapping Weimar Yiddish Berlin    
• Modeling a database of Jewish cemeteries in Brandenburg
• Prototyping (and evaluating) a pipeline for Named Entity Recognition in "Mitteilungsblatt"

List of sessions:

• Intersecting Networks: The Community of Enslaved People in Sephardic Households in 18th-century Barbados - Amalia Levi
• Diachronic Mapping in the Posen Digital Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization - Alison Joseph
• Overview on how current OCR/HTR software functions - Benjamin Kiessling
• Mapping Wartime Jewish Diaries - Gerben Zaagsma
• Atlas of Holocaust Literature - Warsaw Ghetto - Konrad Niciński
• DraCor. Drama Corpora Plattform - Ingo Börner, Peer Trilcke, Daniil Skorinkin