Innovations in Digital Jewish Heritage Studies - the 1st International Haifa Conference 31/5/2021

15:00 - 15:30 OPENING SESSION

Chair: Tsvi Kuflik

Efraim Lev (Dean of Humanities, University of Haifa)

Greetings

Moshe Lavee, (eLijah lab, University of Haifa)

Introducing eLijah Lab’s Initiatives

15:30 - 16:30 MAPPING TRAVELOGS

Chair: Tsvi Kuflik

Sinai Rusinek (Elijah Lab, University of Haifa)

Questions from the TraveLab: Modeling Medieval Jewish Travel

Elton Barker (Pelagios network and The Open University, UK)

A Digital Journeying Around: Mapping an Ancient Greek Travel Narrative

16:45 - 17:45 PRENUMERANTEN (SUBSCRIPTION LISTS) IN JEWISH BOOKS

chair: Elli Fischer

Marcin Wodziński, (University of Wrocław)

Jewish Books and their Readers, 1780-1950

Responder: Avriel Bar-Levav (The Open University)

18:00-19:15 TEXT REUSE IN SERVICE OF JEWISH STUDIES

Chair: Moshe Lavee

Uri Schor (eLijah Lab, University of Haifa)

RWFS - Text Reuse Detection for Mapping Rabbinic Manuscripts

Vered Raziel-Kretzmer (eLijah Lab, University of Haifa)

Mapping Rabbinic Anthological Manuscripts- the Case of MS London 1389

Hadar Miller (eLijah Lab, University of Haifa)

When Do Similar Texts Infer as Text Reuse?

Responder: Marco Büchler (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)

19:30 - 20:15 ANALYSIS OF METADATA IN RESPONSA: METHODS AND FINDINGS

Chair: Yael Netzer

Elli Fischer and Moshe Schorr (eLijah Lab, University of Haifa)

The Inclusion of Metadata as a Literary Practice in the Writing of Responsa

Responder: Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard Society of Fellows)

20:25 - 21:10 MAPPING THE JEWISH WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY

Chair: Uzi Leibner

Eyal Ben-Eliyahu and Dror Elovits (eLijah Lab, University of Haifa)

Alma - Comparative and Analytical Framework for the Ancient Jewish World from a Geo-Historical Aspect

Responder: Hayim Lapin (University of Maryland)