Selected recap from the 3-day workshop, “Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era”
I learned about a tremendous amount of really exciting projects. A small sampling, from the ones I found especially interesting and intriguing
I’m on my way back from the 3-day workshop, “Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era”, which was held at Universtiy of Haifa. (See the full schedule in a previous post, here.)
I’d like to first thank Menachem Katz, for his incredible work at organizing this conference, and bringing together such an amazing group of scholars. Menachem uploaded the Abstracts and scholars’ bios, at his Academia.edu page here (registration required).
I learned about a tremendous amount of really exciting projects. A small sampling, from the ones I found especially interesting and intriguing:
Avi Shmidman of Dicta. Plans for more tools for rabbinic texts: automated punctuation; contextual opening of rabbinic acronyms; spell-check of rabbinic texts.
Many interesting projects regarding nikud and punctuation of the Talmud. There was a really good presentation on the importance and challenges of this, from Ya’akov Leufer of Dicta. (I discussed nikud and punctuation at a previous post, here.)
I got to meet Hillel Novetsky of the incredible project Al-Hatorah (check it out! They have a lot of exciting things planned. And see my review of the website here).
Richard Hidary is working on a really interesting new way of presenting high-quality Talmud scholarship, for a broader audience, check it out at his website.
Hillel Gershuni had a great presentation on how now we may finally be able to make a proper scientific edition of the Talmud Bavli. As well as history of attempts.
I uploaded my presentation to Youtube: https://youtu.be/v561mI90BLg.
And I uploaded the slides at my Academia.edu page (registration required), also here:
By the way, book week 2023 is happening now, through the end of the week. I’ll be checking it out tomorrow, at Sarona in Tel Aviv.