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About the project

MiDRASH is an international project that aims to reconstruct Medieval Jewish book culture by making all Medieval Hebrew Texts accessible and searchable.


The project seeks to provide annotated automatic transcriptions of 30,000 medieval manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as cutting-edge tools for manuscript research.

These tools will be based on digital paleography, NLP and deep learning technologies for the enrichment, analysis and re-use detection of the Jewish Medieval texts.

The results of this project — data as well as algorithms — will be made available to the public.

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About the team

  • École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (France),
  • Tel Aviv University (Israel),
  • Bar Ilan University (Israel),

In partnership with

  • The National Library of Israel (Israel)
  • The University of Haifa (Israel)

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Daniel STOEKL BEN EZRA
cPI
AOrOc (UMR 8546), EPHE–PSL University (France)
Judith OLSZOWY-SCHLANGER
PI
Nachum DERSHOWITZ
PI
Avi SHMIDMAN
PI
Tsafra SIEW
Moshe LAVEE

Funded by

The European Union (ERC, MiDRASH, Project No. 101071829)

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency.
Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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24-27 November 2025
Events

Secrets of the Cairo Geniza to Be Revealed

A groundbreaking project based on the National Library of Israel’s digital database of Hebrew manuscripts has enabled automatic transcription of the entire Cairo Geniza, making it searchable and accessible worldwide. On Monday, November 24, 10:00-11:00, MiDRASH team leaders Professor Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Professor Nachum Dershowitz, Dr. Avi Shmidman, will present their work their work […]

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