The Friedberg Genizah Project

Conferences and Papers

  1. Yaacov Choueka.
    "Mihshuv haGenizah Utrumato leHeker haGenizah: haHazon Umimusho" (Computerizing the Cairo Genizah and its Contribution to Genizah Research: the Vision and its Implementation" (Abstract), The 15th World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem.
    Aug. 2009,Hebrew.     (For English Version Click Here)

     
  2. Lior Wolf, Rotem Littman, Naama Mayer, Tanya German, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    “Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah”, International Journal of Computer Vision, pp. 1-18. (Extended Abstract, Oct. 2009, IEEE Workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation, in conjunction with ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan. Best paper award.)
    Oct. 2010, English.

     
  3. Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Tanya German, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    “Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts”, in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, and Georg Vogeler, eds., with Bernhard Assmann, Malte Rehbein, and Patrick Sahle, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik, vol. 3, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, Germany, pp. 157-179
    2011, English.

     
  4. Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, and Masha Zeldin.
    “Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Genizah Fragments’ Images” (Extended Abstract), Digital Humanities (DH 2011), Palo Alto, CA.
    June 2011, English.     For The Full Paper Click Here.

     
  5. Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    “Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Brussels, Belgium.
    Sept. 2011, English.

     
  6. Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz.
    “‘Veqarev otam ehad el ehad’: Zihuy ktav yad vetseruf qit'ei hagnizah beemtsa'ut mahshev (Identifying Handwriting and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer)”, Ginzei Kedem, vol. 7, pp. 173-209.
    2011, Hebrew.     (For The English Abstract Click Here)

     
  7. Lior Wolf, Lior Litwak, Nachum Dershowitz, Roni Shweka, and Yaacov Choueka.
    “Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from Both Images and Catalogs”, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
    Nov. 2011, English.

     
  8. Roni Shweka.
    "From Old Cairo to the Internet Network – the Digitization of the Cairo Genizah", The 16th Conference of the Israeli Internet Association, Jerusalem.
    Feb. 2012, Hebrew.