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From Historical Sources to Wikibase
Datamining the Jewish Vital Records [in review]
The implementation of digital tools in historical research offers the opportunity to create large datasets of historical data and to investigate historical phenomena from a novel perspective. Despite the benefits, several practical obstacles impede the full implementation of these tools. This study focuses on the workflow of a pilot project converting scanned Jewish vital records into a database, highlighting the gaps between available tools and the workflow needs and proposing solutions based mainly on machine learning.
The study identifies several areas of challenge, including the low level of adoption of LOD and FAIR standards in cultural heritage institutions, the low level of customization in commercially developed tools, the need for a relatively high level of technical skills in open-source tools, and finally the need to modernize the teaching of auxiliary historical sciences.
Boskovice
Židé do roku 1942 [Jews until 1942]. In: Matěj Ott (ed.). Boskovice 1222–2022. Boskovice: Město Boskovice, 2022, pp. 211–217.
A chapter in a collective monograph published on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Boskovice.
Transformation of the Jewish Space in Kolín, 1848–1921
Transformation of the Jewish Space in Kolín, 1848–1921. In Judaica Bohemiae LVII-1, 2022, pp. 63–99.
This study focuses on the phenomenon of the disappearance of the borders of the Jewish ghetto after the granting of equal rights to Jews in the middle of the 19th century. This was one of the essential features of Jewish history and an important component of the cultural interaction between Jewish and non-Jewish society. Through a local historical investigation, this study examines the expansion of Jewish settlement from the former ghetto into the Christian town, the demographic dynamics of Jewish society, the motives for Jewish migration from small towns to large cities, and the influence of antisemitism on emigration from ‘traditional’ Jewish communities.
Images of Malice
The 17. and 18. Centuries: From the Counter-Reformation to the Threshold of the Enlightenment. In: Eva Janáčová (ed.). Images of Malice, Prague 2022, pp. 82–134.
The subject of visual anti-Judaism (hatred of Jews based on their religious difference) and of visual antisemitism (hateful content based primarily on delineation of nationality) is an integral part of local histories in the Bohemian lands, whether that be the history of religion or the history of national and racial intolerance. This intolerance may have originated from church doctrines, from feudal fiats and, later in history, from conditions related to nationality and the general need to find somebody to blame for practically any kind of problem in society. The publication presents the well-known high points of antisemitic resentment on the one hand, while on the other hand it reconsiders our view of historical periods not usually connected with the idea of anti-Jewish sentiment. The danger of anti-Jewish visuals is still an urgent problem today. This mapping of the visual signs of anti-Judaism and antisemitism is also an account of their broader meaning, as the processes of stereotyping, delegitimization, dehumanization and exclusion from society represent a more general problem. Whether these processes target religious, national or sexual minorities, they are based on a supposed conflict that is both constructed and imaginary.
Pluralisation of the Jewish Society in Olomouc 1890–1914
Pluralisation of the Jewish Society in Olomouc 1890–1914. In: Marie Crhová (ed.). Reframing Jewish Life. Olomouc: Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, 2020, pp. 83–94.
This paper focuses on the transformation of the relatively uniform Jewish community in Olomouc into a pluralistic society in 1890–1914. This transformation was, on the one hand, a reaction to the activities of university students, who had brought Zionist ideas from Vienna to their hometown Olomouc. On the other hand, it was also a reaction to the crisis of the local German-liberal milieu and of Jewish identification with it. However, when the crisis in the local German-liberal milieu had been overcome, most of the Olomouc Jews turned away from Zionism back to the original effort to integrate into the German-liberal milieu. Thus, the Zionists were able to make commotions in the Olomouc Jewish community without having any greater success. Only a small part of the local Jews became real Zionists. Substantial change came only after the First World War.