Re: [ha-Safran] Fwd: piecing together the fragments of the CairoGenizah - NYT

Heidi G Lerner Wed, 29 May 2013 21:22:21 -0700

according to the program Rebecca Jefferson will be speaking about the Genizah on Monday morning of the conference at 8:45.

Rebecca Jefferson,

Uncovering the history of the Cairo Genizah manuscript collections – the story so far...;

Seth Jerchower and I spoke about our work with University of Pennsylvania at an AJL convention in the early 2000s. The presentation should be in the AJL Proceedings.

Sincerely, Heidi Lerner

From: "Susan Dubin" <[email protected]>
To: "Deborah Stern" <[email protected]>, "Arthur Kiron" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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Does anyone know any of the people involved? I think it would make a good presentation in Las Vegas. Smile

Maybe a plenary session?

Suzi

From: Deborah Stern

Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 6:32 AM

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Kol ha-kavod to all of the librarians involved in this project!

Debbie Stern

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Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:39 PM
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Dear Safranim,

This is a wonderful achievement and Prof. Choueka deserves all the credit in the world for developing and implementing the advanced computer programming which makes these types of comparisons possible. It may be worth noting for historical purposes that the use of digital technologies to search physically dispersed genizah fragments and to compare them in order to identify matches was pioneered at the Penn Libraries in partnership with the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit at Cambridge University Library and with the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
See: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/genizah/index.cfm /

Among the librarians who participated in this effort were our own Heidi Lerner at Stanford University and Naomi Steinberger at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.. Note also that Heidi and Seth Jerchower, then at the Penn Libraries, gave numerous presentations and published an article discussing the MARC cataloging issues they solved in the course of the project. Their article, which first appeared in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 42, Number 1, 2006, pages 21-39, can be read on-line via the Scholarly Commons website at the University of Pennsylvania: http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/7/

Thanks,

Arthur
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On 5/28/2013 4:56 PM, Hasafran wrote:

Subject: piecing together the fragments of the Cairo Genizah - NYT

This article may be of interest

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/computers-piecing-together-jigsaw-of-jewish-lore.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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