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Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Space

Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Space

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies | History Wednesday, April 21, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary) and Michelle Chesner (Columbia University Libraries) will be presenting on Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Space (https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/about)

Wed April 21, 4:30-5:30

Please register via Zoom

This presentation is part of a course on Digital Methods for Historical Research (HIST429B-0101/RELS419L-0101/HIST639B-0101), but guests are welcome AT 4:30.

The goal of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a database to track the circulation of printed "Jewish books" (in Hebrew, other Jewish languages, and books in Latin and non-Jewish vernaculars with Judaica contents). Much information about the movement of early printed books exists, but in scattered form: individual copies, catalogs from libraries and booksellers, estate inventories, subscription lists, and other kinds of archival documents. All of these individual pieces of data can connect to each other in order to build up a composite view of the movement of Jewish texts and ideas from place to place and across time.

Add to Calendar 04/21/21 4:30 PM 04/21/21 5:30 PM America/New_York Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Space

Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary) and Michelle Chesner (Columbia University Libraries) will be presenting on Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Space (https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/about)

Wed April 21, 4:30-5:30

Please register via Zoom

This presentation is part of a course on Digital Methods for Historical Research (HIST429B-0101/RELS419L-0101/HIST639B-0101), but guests are welcome AT 4:30.

The goal of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a database to track the circulation of printed "Jewish books" (in Hebrew, other Jewish languages, and books in Latin and non-Jewish vernaculars with Judaica contents). Much information about the movement of early printed books exists, but in scattered form: individual copies, catalogs from libraries and booksellers, estate inventories, subscription lists, and other kinds of archival documents. All of these individual pieces of data can connect to each other in order to build up a composite view of the movement of Jewish texts and ideas from place to place and across time.