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Hila Dayfani

Dr. Hila Dayfani

hila.dayfani@mail.huji.ac.il
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Hila Dayfani is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities and the Bible Department at the Hebrew University, the Oriel Centre for the Study of the Bible and the University of Oxford.

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Her research focuses on the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Pentateuchal Criticism. She is currently working on digitizing the Identification of Hitherto Unidentified Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments. The project utilizes AI-based system for scribe identification by digital paleography and develops a new algorithm for text search to identify as many unidentified Qumran fragments as possible.

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Yoav Hamdani

Dr. Yoav Hamdani

yoav.hamdani@gmail.com
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Yoav Hamdani holds a Ph. D from the History Department of Columbia University. His current research investigates the origins and scope of slavery within the U.S. Army, the legal, fiscal, and violent mechanisms that sustained it, and the profound impact slavery had on the American military establishment.

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By creating multiple datasets, refining the metadata through machine learning, visualizing, mapping in GIS, and employing statistical models – the research presents a macro analysis of military enslavement and the fiscal and violent federal mechanism that sustained it. Additionally, he uses NLP, text mining, and visualization programs to identify information specific to military slavery from thousands of officers’ personal papers to understand the social and cultural history of military enslavement. Eventually, he will make the data accessible to the public.

 

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Na'ama Seri-Levi

Dr. Na'ama Seri-Levi

naama.seri-levi@mail.huji.ac.il
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Na’ama Seri-Levi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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She completed her doctoral studies at the Jewish History and Contemporary Department and a fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Jewish Refugees during World War II and is currently working on a project entitled "Remapping Wandering Routes: Exile and Nomadism among Polish-Jewish Refugees during World War II." The project analyses the flight patterns among Polish Jews at the beginning of WWII by using a database built on early testimonies, memoirs, and late oral testimonies.

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