Wednesday, April 10, 2024
8:30-9:00Arrival
9:00-9:30Welcome and Presentation of the Challenges
9:30Start Hackathon
12:30 Lunch break
13:30Brief Presentation of the Interim Status of the Challenges
14:00Continuation of the Hackathon (open end)
Thursday, April 11, 2024
8:30-9:00Arrival
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
12:15-13:30Lunch 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
15:30-16:00Coffee 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
8:30-9:00Arrival
9:00-10:30The 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
12:30-13:30Lunch 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)