How are new methods changing Jewish studies? How do (sometimes radically) different methods contribute to a better understanding of the past? These are the themes that we discussed on August 6 at my panel “Forging Bonds Across Ashkenazi Europe: Between Big Data and Microhistory” at the 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. From big data models redefining the family history in Poland-Lithuania, new Hebrew AI handwriting text recognition models speeding up research based on early modern sources (and outperforming historians!), to microhistory helping to overcome epistemological trap of Jews as “the others”. Thank you for coming!
Time: 11:30-13:30
Building and Room: Hum 47212
Chair: Shaul Stampfer
Tomasz M. Jankowski, Beyond Kest. In-Law Equality as a
Residential Strategy in Poland-Lithuania
Vladyslava Moskalets, Salons and Cafés. Jewish Social Spaces in
Habsburg Galicia
Emanuel Elyasaf, Pinkas Brody as a Microhistory Source
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