The HaMapah project (www.hamapah.org) was created in 2017 by Moshe Schorr and Elli Fischer with the goal of aggregating data and developing tools for the metadata contained within responsa, to gain better understanding of how weighted networks of rabbinic correspondence function and how rabbinic hierarchy emerges. This mapping requires the identification of place names written in Hebrew characters, and thus as resulted in an incomparable gazetteer of Hebrew place-name variants. At present, it is in the process of migrating to Haifa University’s E-lijah Lab, a digital humanities hub.
Elli Fischer studied in yeshivot in the US and Israel for nine years and has rabbinical ordination from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. He has a BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva University (1998) and is presently a graduate student in the Faculty of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, studying the history of responsa literature.
Elli Fischer (Tel Aviv University) will be speaking from 3pm-4pm on May 7 on the topic of "HaMapah: Mapping and Quantifying a Rabbinic Oligarchy of Letters." The talk will be atMIT’s Stata Center (32 Vassar St), room D463.
LOCATION:Room D463, MIT, Stata Center (32 Vassar St), Cambridge MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190507T190000Z DTEND:20190507T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR