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Tag: Archival Research

0 Holocaust Science

Yad Vashem says it has identified 5 million Holocaust victims with help of AI

Grace Gilson in Forward · 4 Nov

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial institution, has achieved a significant milestone by identifying 5 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze vast archival documents.

0 Holocaust History

Yad Vashem says it has identified 5 million Holocaust victims: ‘Behind each name is a life that mattered’

Grace Gilson in JTA · 3 Nov

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, has successfully identified 5 million Holocaust victims through the use of AI and advanced machine learning techniques.

0 Literature History

What is ‘Zionism without Zion?’ New history asks, but can’t answer

Olivia Haynie in Forward · 17 Apr

Rachel Cockerell's debut novel, "Melting Point," is an archival exploration into her family's involvement in early Zionism and the Galveston Movement, which aimed to provide Eastern European Jews refuge in Texas.

0 History Politics

1948: Open Wounds

Tel Aviv Review · 14 Apr

Filmmaker Neta Shoshani discusses her documentary, "1948: Remember, Remember Not," which explores Israel's foundational War of Independence and its subsequent historical and public memory challenges.

0 Language Culture

Course to explore Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect of the theater and the Breslov Hasidim

Forverts Staff in Forward · 20 Feb

Yiddish scholar Leyzer Burko is offering a course this spring focusing on the Ukrainian-Yiddish dialect, which was historically significant in Yiddish theater, film, and among Hasidic communities like Skver and Breslov.