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Organized by ERC-Synergy MiDRASH, EPHE – PSL 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 underpin palaeographical conclusions? The growing use of computational methods may create the impression […]

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 […]