Reuters : Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI
By Dedi Hayun and Hannah Confino https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/vast-trove-medieval-jewish-records-opened-up-by-ai-2025-11-26
By Dedi Hayun and Hannah Confino https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/vast-trove-medieval-jewish-records-opened-up-by-ai-2025-11-26
The MiDRASH project received an $11.5 million grant to take research on medieval Jewish literature to the next level By Rossella Tercatin https://www.timesofisrael.com/scholars-transcribe-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cairo-geniza-fragments-some-never-read-before
A project based on the National Library’s digital database of Hebrew manuscripts will, for the first time, enable the automatic transcription of the entire Cairo Geniza. In doing so, the texts of the large collection of Jewish manuscripts and books will become accessible to everyone (in hebreu). https://www.ynet.co.il/judaism/article/sjhljtiewl
A new automatic transcription project makes 400,000 medieval fragments fully searchable for the first time. By Sharon Altshul https://www.jns.org/ai-unlocks-cairo-genizahs-hidden-world