This paper reports on a project of modeling and datafying knowledge in a legacy catalog (Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer (Sources for Jewish History in Archives in the New Federal States of Germany)) that took place in September 2022 during the first DH Jewish Hackathon1 organized by the Moses Mendelssohn…[Read more]

This article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the…[Read more]

Review of the book “Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives” edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2021.

Wielded uncritically, the term ‘archival silences’ says more about our inability (or unwillingness) to see beyond the written text, than about the presence of silences in archives. This essay discusses the concept of archival silences as a starting point for archivists to help our users engage critically and generatively with our collections.