A World Beyond: Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey - Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies - Online Website Launch
The database is the culmination of many years of dedicated research by Prof. Minna Rozen, and it provides access to a truly unique collection which combines digital images and textual content of nearly 60,000 Jewish gravestones from a variety of communities in Turkey from 1583 until 1990.
Monday, 18 October, 2021
16:00 Greetings
Eyal Zisser
Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University
Rachel Gali Cinamon
Dean of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Roni Stauber
Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University
16:30 Opening Remarks
Amnon Cohen
Bernard Lewis and his Jewish Studies
Minna Rozen
A World Beyond: The Database - Its Scope and Use
17:30 First Session: Istanbul Jewry and the Computerized Database
Chair: Ehud Toledano
Ruth Lamdan
The Ideal of Beauty in Istanbul Jewish Cemeteries
Dotan Arad
Between Istanbul and Jerusalem: Connections and Bonds between two Karaite Centers
Dror Zeevi
Ottoman Sultanas and their Jewish Kiras
Carsten Wilke
Hebrew Epitaphs from Byzantine and Early Ottoman Constantinople in Biagio Ugolinos's Anthology of 1767
Tuesday, 19 Octobre, 2021
16:00 Second Session:
Digital Jewish Studies I
Chair: Simha Goldin
Johannes Heil & Imen Ben Temelliste
The New Gallia-Germania Judaica Project
Elli Fischer
The Prenumeranten Project: Digitizing Pre-subscriber Lists
17:30 Third Session:
Digital Jewish Studies II
Chair: Zohar Segev
Tammy Hepps
Homestead Hebrews: A Case Study in Digital Community Reconstitution and Analysis
Louis Kaplan
The Imaginary Jewish Homelands of I.N. Steinberg: From Archive to Virtual World
Liat Kozma
What can a Prosopographic Database Teach us about Jewish Doctors in the Modern Middle East?
