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Can AI Save Jewish Studies?

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the dualistic potential of artificial intelligence within the realm of Jewish studies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish StudiesTranslationAiTraditional Jewish LearningEthical ImplicationsLanguage BarriersChavrutaCognitive FunctionResearch Expansion

Places mentioned

Berkeley, California, United States
"At UC Berkeley, where I am a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant, instructors and students have landed on ad hoc, oft-dubious solutions to the quandaries raised by the advent of ChatGPT."
Israel
"American Jewrys linguistic deficit is more serious than our peers in IsraelEnglishs global hegemony grants them entre to Anglo scholarship and modern Hebrew provides an easier entry point to Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and biblical/rabbinic/medieval Hebrew."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Emanuel Ringelblums magisterial dissertation on the history of the Jews of Warsaw is only available in complete form in Polish."
Budapest, Hungary
"He has got the show all to himself, a professor once exclaimed about someone researching Budapests Jewish community. Who else could read Hungarian?"
France
"France, as the laboratory for emancipation and the home of Europes largest postwar Jewish community, also understandably attracts much attention."

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