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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 […]

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 […]

This engineering position for one year is open within the eScriptorium project team in AOROC at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL. AOROC is a laboratory across the École Normale Supérieur (ENS), the EPHE and the French national centre for scientific research (CNRS). It comprises about 200 members specializing in archaeology, philology […]

The principal mission of this post is to complete development of the new version of the Archetype software for palaeographical and other analysis (https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal). This software was first developed at King’s College London in the context of the DigiPal project (https://digipal.eu), and was then extended by King’s Digital Lab for the Models of Authority and […]

Campus Condorcet, Paris Organized by Dr Evgeniya Zarubina – ERC Synergy MiDRASH, EPHE – PSL, Paris, France About the colloquium From an outsider’s perspective, the work of Hebrew palaeographers can appear mysterious. How do they know that a manuscript was indeed written by Maimonides? What evidence supports claims of provenance and authorship? What implicit assumptions […]

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 […]

Conference of the ERC-Synergy project MiDRASH 8-10 December 2025, INHA (2, rue Vivienne, 75002) and Campus Condorcet, Centre des Colloques In the Middle Ages, Hebrew Manuscripts were produced across the vast Jewish diaspora from France and Portugal in the west to the borders of China in the East, from England in the north to Yemen […]