The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (DYTP) is a research consortium co-founded by Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan in 2012 dedicated to the application of digital humanities tools and methods to the study of Yiddish theatre and drama. It is an experiment in scholarly collaboration across dozens of fields, methodologies, and institutions. DYTP’s members include theatre researchers, historians, literary scholars, musicologists, librarians, archivists, performers, and musicians, among others, who are some of the leading scholars of Yiddish theatre and drama.
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The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (DYTP) is a research consortium co-founded by Joel Berkowitz and Debra Caplan in 2012 dedicated to the application of digital humanities tools and methods to the study of Yiddish theatre and drama. It is an experiment in scholarly collaboration across dozens of fields, methodologies, and institutions. DYTP’s members include theatre researchers, historians, literary scholars, musicologists, librarians, archivists, performers, and musicians, among others, who are some of the leading scholars of Yiddish theatre and drama.
(Description adapted from information on project website)