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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.

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)

Daniel STOEKL BEN EZRA

cPI

AOrOc (UMR 8546), EPHE–PSL University (France)

Judith OLSZOWY-SCHLANGER

Head of NLI team

Head of Haifa team

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.

News & Events View all

Deadline, 10 August 2026 CEST - Interview date, 13 August 2026

Call for Application

Job Offer : 2 year Ingenieur d’études contract on Automatic Layout Analysis of Hebrew Script Manuscripts in the ERC Synergy MiDRASH in Paris

The Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL-University in Paris, France is hiring an Ingénieur d’Etudes in Digital Humanities and Hebrew Literature to work on the ERC Synergy project MiDRASH (Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script) for the team led by Daniel Stökl. The project undertaken […]

Call for Application

Job offer : Post-Doctoral /Research Engineer Contracts in Medieval Hebrew Paleography

Application deadline: 15 August 2026 Midnight, Central European Summer Time The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris, France, is inviting candidates for a Post-Doctoral/Research Engineer position in the field of Hebrew Paleography and Manuscript Studies. The successful candidate will join the team led by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger in the framework of the ERC […]

8 - 10 September 2026

Events

International Conference Medieval Books in the early Modern Period in partnership with MiDRASH

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