The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon
Potsdam, April 10-12, 2024
Organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (Daniel Burckhardt, Miriam Rürup, Nina Zellerhoff) together with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (Gerben Zaagsma).
The Hackathon is co-organized by the Network Digital Humanities, Potsdam (Daniil Skorinkin).
This conference aims to critically (re)assess the value(s) of the Digital for the field of Jewish Studies as it has been developed and discussed over the past ten years.
Including all phases of research and dissemination from collecting and exploring to constructing and communicating, we will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of the Digital in general and for the field of Jewish Studies in particular. This can be done both from a retrospective—what has worked well and which promises have and have not yet been fulfilled—and from a forward-looking perspective—highlighting directions that might be worth pursuing. In doing so, we take up the recent critical turn in DH and apply it to the field of Jewish Studies.
The event includes a hands-on-hackathon.
Venue:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Seminargebäude
Am Neuen Markt 9d
14467 Potsdam
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
8:30-9:00 Arrival
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Presentation of the Challenges
9:30 Start Hackathon
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Brief Presentation of the Interim Status of the Challenges
14:00 Continuation of the Hackathon (open end)
Thursday, April 11, 2024
8:30-9:00 Arrival
9:00-10:15 Presentations of the Hackathon Results
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 The Digitized Past: Early Texts [Chair: Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky]
- Moshe Lavee, Hadar Miller, Shimon Fogel, Eliezer Baumgarten (University of Haifa): Data Modeling for a Critical Digital Library: Late Antiquity Rabbinic Homiletics
- Nicolas Bontemps, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris): Biblical Citations in Rabbinic Compositions: An Evaluation of Dicta's Citation Finder and a New Proposal
- Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff, Jonathan Schler, Nati Ben-Gigi (Bar Ilan University / Holon Institute of Technology): Citation Network Construction and Analysis for Inter-Community Relationships and Viewpoint Plurality Assessment of the Medieval Rabbinic Literature
12:15-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:30 The Digitized Past: Analyzing Texts [Chair: Yael Netzer]
- Ophir Münz-Manor (The Open University of Israel): (Large) Language Models and the Future of Digital Jewish Studies
- Orel Sharp (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main): Stylometric Analysis and Close Reading of Mapu's "AYIT ẔAVUA": Tension and Completion
- Ilia Uchitel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Soviet Yiddish Press as a Mirror of Soviet National Policies: Making Use of Newspapers’ Bibliographical and Textual Data
- Adia Mendelson-Maoz (The Open University of Israel), Avi Shmidman (Bar Ilan University): A Computational Analysis of Gender in 20th Century Israeli Prose
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 The Reconstructed Past: Cultural Heritage [Chair: Daniel Burckhardt]
- Inna Kizhner (University of Haifa), Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet (Bar Ilan University): Approaching a Multiperspectival Ontology of Jewish Cultural Heritage: Ontological Gaps and Epistemic Injustice
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam): Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality (GraDiM): Visualizing a Photo Archive about Diaspora
- Daniel Baránek (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Spatial Dynamics of Jewish Society: Insights from Historical Big Data
Friday, April 12, 2024
8:30-9:00 Arrival
9:00-10:30 The Digitized Past: Jewish Music [Chair: Gerben Zaagsma]
- Danielle Stein (University of California, Los Angeles): Gendered Voices of Home and Hopes for Tomorrow: Examining the Recorded Lullaby in Jewish Émigré Life through the Database of Recorded Jewish Music
- Jeff Janeczko (Milken Archive): Immigration and the Sound of American Jewry: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Affected the Production of Commercial Jewish Music Recordings
- Mark Kligman (UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music): The Frequent Sounds of Sacred Jewish Music
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 The Remembered Past: Testimonies and Ego Documents [Chair: Nina Zellerhoff]
- Tabea Henn (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): A (Re)constructed Life? The Application “Tell me, Inge...” between Holocaust Education and the Preservation of a Life
- Anastasia Glazanova (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), Galina Zelenina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): Thematic Tagging in Zemelah.online Digital Archive of Soviet-Era Jewish Egodocuments
- Renana Keydar, Keren Shuster, Yael Netzer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Emergent Voices: Applying DH methods in a Digital Archive of Testimonies during War Time
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:00 Virtual Poster Presentation
14:00-14:30 Poster Discussion (Break-out Rooms)
14:30-15:30 Roundtable: DHJewish Quo Vadis? [Chair: Daniel Burckhardt]
- Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
- Anna Menny (Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg)
- Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam)
- Sinai Rusinek (University of Haifa)
- Gerben Zaagsma (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)
The conference and Hackathon is generously supported by the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies.
Please register by March 31, 2024 at: https://forms.gle/7RE5yNmdESQddofx7
Please note that registration for the conference and the hackathon will take place separately. Please indicate in the form for which event/days you would like to register for (you can also register for both). Please also note that we only have a limited number of places. Places will be allocated in the order in which registrations are received.
For questions, please contact: tagungen-mmz@uni-potsdam.de
