Abstract

Review: Mapping Modern Jewish Cultures

Highlights

  • The Mapping Modern Jewish Cultures project maps, analyzes, and reconstructs the network of Jewish café culture in cities across several continents: Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, New York City, and Tel Aviv

  • Over the past six years Shachar Pinsker has worked with a wide-ranging team of librarians, technicians, and visualization and geographic information systems (GIS) experts, as well as many graduate and undergraduate students, to produce a large digital collection of visual, textual, and cartographic sources related to cafés and modern Jewish culture, which can be accessed through the project’s digital platform

  • The project began with support from Justin Joque, a visualization librarian, and Alix Keener, the digital scholarship librarian, at the University of Michigan, as well as Peter Knoop and Caitlin Dickinson, who oversee GIS at the University of Michigan

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Introduction

The Mapping Modern Jewish Cultures project maps, analyzes, and reconstructs the network of Jewish café culture in cities across several continents: Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, New York City, and Tel Aviv. Over the past six years Shachar Pinsker has worked with a wide-ranging team of librarians, technicians, and visualization and geographic information systems (GIS) experts, as well as many graduate and undergraduate students, to produce a large digital collection of visual, textual, and cartographic sources related to cafés and modern Jewish culture, which can be accessed through the project’s digital platform.

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