Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne – Raum, Form, Inschrift

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Title
Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne – Raum, Form, Inschrift
 
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Start date
01-01-2023
 
End date
30-12-2047
 
Research profile of the University of Bamberg
Digital Humanities, Social and Human Sciences
Analysis and Preservation of Cultural Heritage
 
Existing situation
Ongoing
 

Project description

Acronym
Steinerne Zeugen digital
 
Description
Some 2,400 Jewish cemeteries have survived in Germany from the eleventh century onwards. About 590 of these first came into existence between the years 1500 and 1800. Unlike their medieval and their more recent counterparts, these early modern cemeteries have only rarely been documented, let alone thoroughly researched from a variety of methodological perspectives.

This is where the long-term project "Steinerne Zeugen digital: German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between Middle Ages and Modernity" comes in. Recently accepted into the prestigious funding scheme of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, it aims to create a representative, entirely digital corpus of both texts and images, thus offering unprecedented possibilities to analyze funerary inscriptions, gravestone design and the geospatial context of cemeteries in a systematic fashion.
 
Area of research
Judaistik/Jüdische Studien, Baugeschichte/Bauforschung, Digitale Denkmaltechnologien; Hebräische und hebräisch-deutsche Epigraphik
 
Keywords
Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte, Digitale Editorik und Editionsphilologie, Digital Humanities
 

subprojects

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TitleStartdateProject leader
Digitale Erfassung Jüdischer Friedhöfe in Franken und jüdisches Leben in Bamberg/Franken.01-06-2018Hess, Mona  ; Talabardon, Susanne