Yahoo

Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analysing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew ...
The Conversation

DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means

Shai Carmi is a paid consultant and holds stock options at MyHeritage. Harald Ringbauer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...
Princeton University

E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture: On How the West Became Antisemitic

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council's Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday, September 25. This event ...
Newsday

UNESCO names Erfurt's medieval Jewish buildings in Germany as a World Heritage Site

BERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been added to ...
The Forward

Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87

(JTA) — When Robert Chazan was studying toward his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the mid-1960s, few major American universities were offering positions to Jewish studies scholars. The field was ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

UNESCO names Erfurt’s medieval Jewish buildings in Germany as a World Heritage Site

BERLINBERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been ...