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Harvard EVA Minerva Conference

April 13-14, 2015

Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

Organized by the Judaica Division of Harvard Library Widener Library, Room M Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2985 [email protected] Conference made possible by The Max and Irene Engel Levy Judaica Book Fund.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

HARVARD EVA MINERVA CONFERENCE MONDAY, APRIL 13 - MORNING

8-9am Breakfast

11-11:30am Break

9:30-11am Session 1 Reuven Pinski – Senior Director, Heritage Division, Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Jerusalem The National Heritage Program James Shulman – President, Artstor, New York, NY Building Bridges by Understanding and Respecting Differences

11:30am-1pm Session 2 Sinai Rusinek – Polosnky Post-Doctoral fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem Hebraica and Judaica Digital Humanities Dan Cohen – Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America, Boston, MA How the Digital Public Library of America Brings Together Disparate Special Collections to Create a Seamless Whole

9-9:30am Greetings Sarah Thomas – Vice President for the Harvard Library and

Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University James Hemsley – Founder of the EVA Conferences, EVA Minerva, London

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

HARVARD EVA MINERVA CONFERENCE

MONDAY, APRIL 13 - AFTERNOON

4-4:30pm Break

6-9pm Dinner

2:30-4pm Session 3 Dov Winer – Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana; Minerva Israel / European Association for Jewish

Culture, Jerusalem Europeana and LOD: Enhancing Jewish and Israeli Digital Contents Lena Stanley-Clamp – Director, European Association for Jewish Culture; Coordinator, Judaica

Europeana, London Working with Europeana: Integrated Access to Digital Collections through Judaica Europeana and AthenaPlus

4:30-6pm Session 4 Caraid O’Brien – Independent Artist, New York, NY Creating from the Archives: Performing Yiddish Theater in the 21st Century Moshe Caine –Head, Department of Interactive Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem Another Person’s World: Immersive Digital Storytelling as a Means of Mutual Learning and Self Reflection

1-2:30pm Lunch Yitzhak Goren – Chairman of the Board, Israel International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv Mapping Israel’s Cultural Resources: Preservation and Access

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

HARVARD EVA MINERVA CONFERENCE TUESDAY, APRIL 14 - MORNING

8-9am Breakfast

10:30-11am Break

9-10:30am Session 5 David Hahn – The Official Receiver of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem The Liquidation of the IBA and the Future of the Public Broadcasting in Israel Susan Hazan – Curator of New Media & Head of Internet Office, Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Creative Re-use of Digital Content

11am-12:30pm Session 6 Yaron Tsur – Professor, History Dept., Tel Aviv University; Director and Founder of Historical Jewish

Press Online Archive, Tel Aviv The Historical Jewish Press Website (http://jpress.org.il): Towards a New International Venture: the Polish Project Roberta Newman – Director of Digital Initiatives, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York The Vilna Collections Project: Cultural Restitution in the Digital Age

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

HARVARD EVA MINERVA CONFERENCE TUESDAY, APRIL 14 - AFTERNOON

12:30-2pm Lunch

4-4:30pm Break

5:30-6pm Concluding remarks 6-9pm Dinner

2-4pm Session 7 PANEL: Preserving Israeli Culture through Photography

Eyal Landesman – Artist, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

A Personal Journey to the Mysteries of the Stage Yossi Zwecker – Stage Photographer, Tel Aviv

Opera Photography: the Complex Task of Conveying Music in Pictures Eldad Rafaeli – Artist, Photographer, Art Director, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the

Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv Public Space Turned Private /The Social Protest, Israel 2011-2015

4:30-5:30pm Session 8 Dafnah Levenvirth – Chief Information Officer, Dantec, Ltd., Jerusalem International Collaborations in Preserving Visual Art

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CONFERENCE PRESENTERS & PRESENTATIONS

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Moshe Caine – Head, Department of Interactive Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem Moshe Cain received a B.A. in Sociology & Philosophy from the Hebrew University, a B.A. in Photography, Film & Television from harrow College, London (today Westminster University), and a M.A. in computer imaging from Coventry University in England. For over 30 years, Mr. Cain has been involved in academic institutions in Israel, such as the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Emunah Academic College, and Haifa University’s Department of Archaeology. He currently is the Head of the Department of Interactive Communications at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. His areas of expertise include digital imaging; interactive technology; multimedia communication; and applications of digital imaging and interactive technologies in cultural heritage preservation, documentation, and presentation.

Another Person’s World: Immersive Digital Storytelling as a means of Mutual Learning and Self Reflection The emerging field of Immersive Digital Storytelling is taking shape as one of the dominant forces of the new cross-media journalism. The seamless interweaving of text, image, sound, video and interactivity offer a powerful potential for audience engagement and identification. This paper presents several case studies aiming to show the potential of the medium as a means of mutual learning and self-reflection. The act of social engagement through the new media tools offers a unique possibility for identification with the subject, and as a result of growing mutual understanding. This project Based Learning (PBL) approach offers a new path to knowledge gaining and Life Long Learning.

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Dan Cohen – Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America, Boston, MA Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, Dan was a Professor of History and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig). Dan was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top “tech innovators” in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

How the Digital Public Library of America Brings Together Disparate Special Collections to Create a Seamless Whole

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Yitzhak Goren – Chairman of the Board, Israel International Photography Festival Yitzhak Goren was born in Poland in 1948 and has lived in Israel since 1957. Photography is a key part of his voluntary activity. Together with partners I have established a non-profit organization, Platform, for promoting photography in Israel. Platform’s vision calls “for a better society in the language of photography.” Goren believes that photography can strengthen vulnerable populations and social, cultural and human issues to the public agenda. Through photography, society and culture may be documented for various needs, including preservation and research. For the past five years, the International Photography Festival has been the main platform through which Platform manifests the vision in practice, from both the Israeli and the universal aspects. Goren is an expert in the environmental protection field, and among others, and has served as CEO of the Israel Ministry of Environment Protection. He believes in giving that is directed to create a better society, and photography allows him to realize his beliefs and social-environmental visions.

Mapping Israel’s Cultural Resources: Preservation and Access

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David Hahn – The Official Receiver of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem As of June 2011, Prof. Hahn is the Official Receiver of Israel. As the Official Receiver, he monitors the functioning of all trustees and other parties in both individual and corporate insolvency case. The Official Receiver advises the courts in the various proceedings in these cases and ensures the integrity of the proceedings and their fairness to all parties. Prof. Hahn received his LL.B. (magna cum laude) at Bar Ilan University Law School in Israel. Later he graduated and received his LL.M. (Corporations) (1995) and J.S.D. (1997) from New York University School of Law. Prior to his current appointment Prof. Hahn served as fulltime faculty member at Bar-Ilan University Law School. As a faculty member, Prof. Hahn taught Corporate Law and Insolvency Law. He is a member of the Israel Bar and a non-active member of the New York Bar. Prof. Hahn is a member of the International Association of Insolvency Regulators (IAIR) and an active member of the academic group of INSOL International.

The Liquidation of the IBA and the Future of the Public Broadcasting in Israel In the Summer of 2014, after 50 years of public broadcasting by the Israel Broadcasting Authority (the IBA), the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, enacted a new act which liquidates the IBA and leads to its dismantling, while creating the legal infrastructure for the formation of a brand new public broadcasting entity. This move has drawn intensive attention by the public and various interest groups therein, including the IBA journalists and other employees, labor unions, producers, and politicians. All these groups have clashed over the enactment of the new act and continue in their attempt to alter the eventual outcome of this strategic change. In the midst, the Official Receiver of Israel has been appointed the liquidator of the IBA. As such, it faces the daunting task of continuing to operate the IBA as a viable broadcasting entity until the commencement of broadcasting by the new entity, while facing challenges of dealing with a work force whose future is highly uncertain. In addition, the liquidator must ensure a smooth "passing of the torch" to the new entity, including aspects of intellectual property rights and specifically handing over the grand archive of the IBA with all its public historical value. The Official Receiver's presentation shall cover these challenges and the manner in which they are currently being dealt with.

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Susan Hazan – Curator of New Media & Head of Internet Office, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

In her role of Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Dr. Hazan’s responsibilities include: identifying, and implementing digital solutions for the gallery, online and mobile platforms and outreach programs. Her Masters and PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London in Media and Communications focused on electronic architectures in the contemporary museum. Dr. Hazan has been recognized for her numerous publications on new media in education, art, museums and cultural heritage, and is currently investigating social networks, innovative platforms for disseminating virtual museum, and digital libraries in the context of cultural heritage.

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Creative Re-use of Digital Content The Israel Museum, a location rich in cultural holdings in fine art, archaeology, and Jewish art and life creates a significant electronic footprint through the delivery of its collections as it shares its extensive holdings with a global audience. Since its website’s launch in 1995 it has developed an impressive range of digital assets in a full range of forms and formats. This presentation will describe the ways in which ‘old’ content has now been brought to the front in a series of projects that are driven through the creative re-use of digital content.

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Eyal Landesman – Artist, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

Eyal Landesman was born in Israel in 1970. He graduated in photography and graphic design at WIZO HAIFA. His photographs have been published in many magazines and have been exhibited around the world. In 2009 he was the Co-Founder of The Israeli Photography Festival, and since then he serves as its artistic director. Selected projects include:

• “Home for me” (2012) – a video which represents the refugees in Tel Aviv. It was screened at the Musrara gallery, at Amsterdam International Biennale and won the multimedia award in the "Local Testimony" contest.

• “Her Morning Elegance” (2010) – which was nominated for a Grammy in the category of the video clip. It was screened at Cannes Film Festival, at Los Angeles and at the current Film Festival at the Pompidou Centre. 28 million views on YouTube

• “15 Minute” (2009) – a book and a solo exhibition at Avignon, France. • “Album” (2005) - Author presentation Acre Festival Theatre.

A Personal Journey to the Mysteries of the Stage Eyal Landesman has always been interested in examining the fine line between imagination and the act of documenting in photography. He has done this throughout hundreds of theatre productions, both on stage and behind the scenes, and continued exploring this subject while taking pictures of choreography and staged dance shots, which later lead him to creating video art made from stills, that were projected on the stage. These works tackle the "truth" so to speak in stage photography. They offer an explanation to the question if it is at all possible to photograph dance, an art form that is all about movement in space and time, whereas photography by its very nature is freezing a millisecond and turning it into an eternal moment. Doing this he faces the limitations of still photography and its boundaries in the sequence of time, space and sound. The importance of theatre photography, beyond its immediate role as a mediator, is also the long-term preservation of the work. These photos become other works of art, which because of their documentary function, necessarily have a longer life. As a result of that, after the curtain drops the piece of art lives on.

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Dafnah Levenvirth – Chief Information Officer, Dantec, Ltd., Jerusalem

At Dantec Ltd., Mrs. Levenvirth had full responsibility for all integration technology of the digitized material and its metadata. She has been serving as technology advisor for Dantec for over 15 years. Previously Mrs. Levenvirth was Senior Program Manager in IBM, with responsibility to full product delivery. Before that, she was a team leader of software engineering teams in Mellanox, one of the largest Israeli and worldwide semiconductors in the high-computing area. During this period, from 2007 to 2010, Mrs. Levenvirth was a mentor at the Wharton-Recanati Global Business Studies (GBS). Mrs. Levenvirth earned a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the University of Tel-Aviv, and a bachelor's degree in computer Science and Amirim Humanities excellence program from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

International Collaborations in Preserving Visual Art This presentation introduces the work of Dantec Ltd., particularly its collaboration with the Harvard Judaica Division’s digital initiatives. It will review the cooperative projects with Israeli organizations and independent photographers through presentations of some major projects (completed and those still in progress) for images, audio and video materials. Other topics include the challenge of building a digitized collection; the conversion of an existing analog database into a digitized one; disciplines, items types, information decoding and enrichment; and the players and their roles over the digitization project life-cycle.

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Roberta Newman – Director of Digital Initiatives, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York Roberta Newman is Director of Digital Initiatives at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where she oversees digital projects in the library and archives and YIVO's websites, including The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, which she helped develop as Illustrations Editor and Director of Archival Research. From 1988-1992, she was the curator of YIVO’s photo and film collections. She is the author, with Alice Nakhimovsky, of Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Europe and America (Indiana University Press, 2014).

The Vilna Collections Project: Cultural Restitution in the Dig ital Age During the Holocaust, YIVO's archival and library collections in Poland were looted by the Nazis. A portion of these materials were recovered with the help of the U.S. Army after the war and brought to YIVO to its new headquarters in New York. The rest was feared lost forever. However, in the late 1980s, thousands of YIVO books and documents were discovered hidden in Vilnius, Lithuania. These materials, as well as books from the renowned Strashun Library, are now the subject of an international digitization project, which will reunite materials physically held in three institutions on one website.

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Caraid O’Brien – Independent Artist, New York, NY Caraid O’Brien received three new play commissions from the Foundation for Jewish Culture for her translations of classic Yiddish texts. Her production of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance performed on a go-go stage in Times Square “set Show World aflame” according to the Village Voice. For ten years, she interviewed the last remaining stars of the Yiddish theater arranging for the preservation of several important archives. Each June 16th, she hosts and directs a 7 hour nationwide radio broadcast of James Joyce’s Ulysses during which she performs the complete Molly Bloom episode. Her website is www.caraidobrien.com

Creating from the Archives: Performing Yiddish Theater in the 21st Century Beginning in 1995, Caraid began researching Yiddish theater productions at Harvard and other libraries as inspiration for translating and producing a series of Yiddish plays by authors including Sholem Asch and Dovid Pinski. In particular, she studied the lives and careers of Luba Kadison and her husband Joseph Buloff, stars of the Yiddish art theater as well as Seymour Rexite and his wife Miriam Kressyn, stars and historians of the Yiddish musical theater. With the artists of Yiddish theater’s golden age now gone, how do we create a show that honors and builds from the historical triumphs of Second Avenue today?

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Reuven Pinski – Senior Director, Heritage Division, Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Jerusalem Reuven Pinsky heads the Division of Commemoration and National Heritage in the Prime Minister's Office. In this capacity he manages the national framework of tangible and non-tangible heritage at an annual budget of 1 billion dollars. He also serves as the manager of the State program for the commemoration of deceased state leaders, starting from Theodor Herzl and Jabotinsky to elected presidents and prime-ministers. From 2005-2010 he served as the Development Manager of the Old City within the Jerusalem Development Authority. As director of this division, he initiated governmental projects including a master-plan for the Western Wall, a master-plan for the urban rehabilitation of the Old City and its environs, and programs to enhance the cultural attractions in the Old City. These projects have succeeded in increasing the number of visitors to the Old City making it a living city, where daily life and religious cultural tourism coexists together. Reuven Pinski holds a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from Turo College, Jerusalem, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

The National Heritage Program The National Heritage Program, situated within the Prime Minister's Office, was established in 2010 in order to strengthen and protect Israel's national treasures, artifacts, sites and cultural heritage (tangible and intangible). The program acts as the umbrella organization for all heritage institutions in the state such as the National Park Authority and the Israel Antiquity Authority, regarding policy, training and (enforcement / education). The program invests funds in selected projects all over the State designed to rehabilitate and restore tangible and intangible assets, making them accessible to the general public. The sites of the built cultural heritage are being renewed and redeveloped in order to expose and encourage the public to learn and experience the values of the sites. Other assets of intangible heritage are being conserved and converted into digital formats, allowing availability through the National Heritage Network for personal and academic use.

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Eldad Rafaeli – Artist, Photographer, Art Director, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

Rafaeli's unique works have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad (Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, The Photographers Place, London, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ashdod Art Museum, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat- Gan and many more). His complex language, high sensitivity and piercing though intimate gaze have become the hallmark of his works. A photographer with more than 25 years of international experience in the fields of documentary, portraits, and advertising campaigns. Rafaeli had served as Yediot Aharonot newspaper photojournalist for 18 years. Today he owns a photo studio which specializes in portraits and various productions. Rafaeli is also the art director of the Israeli “International Photography Festival” presenting the best photographers from Israel and abroad and attracting tens of thousands of visitors.

Public Space Turned Private / The Social Protest, Israel 2011-2015 "Public Space Turned Private" is a personal documentary project, and an attempt to document the protest of an entire nation. The protest began in July 2011, was carried out intensively throughout that summer, and to a lower extent is still carrying on. The social protest called for a new order, for change and social justice, and has greatly affected the public discourse in Israel. For many months I was trying to understand and document this complex movement, capturing thousands of images which marked, interfered and created a new reality. This project works in three levels and photographic styles:

1. Direct and personal photographic documentation. 2. Portraits of more than 100 protest leaders. 3. Landscape photography of the boulevard and tent city.

These three levels make up a comprehensive visual investigation, a sweeping look at the various phenomena which took place at the boulevard from a personal view point. Relationships, hardships and crisis; the coming together of diverse people within one territory, religious and secular, people who identified with the political right and left, the poor and the wealthy, men and women from divergent social classes and age groups, different ethnicities and cultural customs; awareness of 'the other' and his distress. Everything came together for a number of months, in a movement that called for change, hoped for something better, struggled against a corrupt government, a cold hearted and crushing government which abandoned its people. The tent city became a lively center, a place of learning and inspiration for a better tomorrow.

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Sinai Rusinek – Polosnky Post-Doctoral fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem Sinai Rusinek is a Polonsky post-doctoral fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She has written her doctoral dissertation, "Criticus, Kritikos, Critick" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For the last five years she has been the editor in chief of the journal "Contributions to the History of Concepts". Recently, she founded Digital Humanities Israel ("Ruach Digitalit") - an initiative and network for digital humanities. She teaches digital humanities courses at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, member of several DH networks and involved in several Digital Humanities projects dealing with intertextuality, paratexts, and the history of the book.

Hebraica and Judaica Digital Humanities The scholarly movement and community of Digital Humanities endeavor to open, enrich, analyze digital cultural heritage—whether in text, image, sound or data. It explores, and opens, new ways of reading, studying and teaching humanities memory, thus giving it a new life. Within this exciting endeavor, digital study of Jewish and Hebrew culture and memory has a problematic and complex path. A little too early and lagging behind, often too sacred and always too political; from Right to Left, hiding in gaps, and out of focus – the development of Judaica and Hebraica digital humanities is facing numerous challenges. While discussing these challenges and specificities I will also suggest how they may become fruitful, unique opportunities for progress and innovation.

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James Shulman – President, Artstor, New York, NY James Shulman serves as ARTstor's President. Working with his colleagues, he developed and implemented plans for an organization that provides over 1.8 million images, software, and services to over 1,600 educational institutions around the world. He writes about the educational use of images and digital technology, innovative non-profits, and high impact philanthropy; publications include Collaborative Change: Bringing innovation to hard-to-change institutions in the SSIR and Words … will not stay in place: cataloging and sharing image collections, in the Art Libraries Journal. He worked in a range of capacities during his 9 years at the Mellon Foundation before creating ARTstor, and received his BA and Ph.D. from Yale in Renaissance Studies.

Building Bridges by Understanding and Respecting Differences For 5 years, Artstor (a non-profit organization) has been working in collaboration with a like-minded set of educational institutions to design and implement and cloud-based cataloging and image management service: Shared Shelf. As a non-profit organization, Artstor aims to fulfill its mission by supporting the distinctive missions of those we serve: ranging from small colleges like Colby College to large universities like Harvard (where Shared Shelf supports the diverse workflow needs of over 38 departments and schools), from the Society of Architectural Historians (with 3,000 dispersed individual members) to the Digital Public Library of America (serving as a national gateway to collections, some of which are connected via Shared Shelf). Such a system must be supported by institutional fees in order to perform dependably. But the story of building it is far less the rehearsal of a business planning exercise than the hard work of personal and institutional collaboration to understand and support various interlocking non-profit missions. As much as these image-management needs have in common, making Shared Shelf work meant working through vast differences in requirements, workflows, and scale. The 5 year story of building Shared Shelf derives from understanding, respecting, and sharing these diverse missions via a software service that furthers the distinctive aims of the passionate communities of collections builders and collection users.

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Lena Stanley-Clamp – Director, European Association for Jewish Culture; Coordinator, Judaica

Europeana, London Lena Stanley-Clamp is the Director of the European Association for Jewish Culture and the Coordinator of Judaica Europeana, a network of libraries, archives and museums which contribute digital collections data to Europeana. She has led this effort to provide integrated access to Judaica collections since its inception in 2010. Previously, she has worked for the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London. She has organized many international conferences including: Strengthening Jewish Life in Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1997 and The Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe, Prague 2004. She is a Council member of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford) and has contributed articles to Jewish periodicals.

Working with Europeana: Integrated Access to Digital Collections through Judaica Europeana and AthenaPlus Judaica Europeana is an extensive network of institutions in Europe and the US, which work together on linking Jewish heritage collections to Europeana’s huge database. Europeana—a digital services platform which provides access to over 30 million objects – deploys the latest technology to make the content more easily discoverable. Users’ experience in navigating the vast number of collections is enhanced by shared access. Partnerships with other European projects such as AthenaPlus open up the opportunities created by the Semantic Web and the Linked Open Data environment.

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Yaron Tsur – Professor, History Dept., Tel Aviv University; Director and Founder of Historical Jewish

Press Online Archive, Tel Aviv Prof. Yaron Tsur took part in creating the Open University of Israel in 1975 and was head team of courses in Modern Jewish History, specializing in the history of the Jewish communities in the Lands of Islam, and in the ethnic problem in Israel. At Tel Aviv University he served as Chair of the department of Jewish History (2007), and as Head of the doctoral School of Jewish Studies (2008-2010). Among his books: Jews in an Era of Transformation: Introduction to Modern Jewish History, A Torn Community: The Jews of Morocco and Nationalism 1943-1954, Jews among Muslims, 1750-1880. He is the founder and director of "The Jews of Islamic Countries – Archiving Project" (1999) and Historical Jewish Press website (2004).

The Historical Jewish Press website (http://jpress.org.il) towards a new international venture: the Polish project The Historical Jewish Press Website is a joint project of Tel-Aviv University and the Israeli National Library, in collaboration with other institutes throughout the world. The site includes the largest archive of Jewish newspapers published in different countries, languages, and time periods (at the present 54 dailies and periodicals from 13 countries dating from 1843 to 1987, about1.25 million pages). We have developed a set of objectives, but gradually conditioned it according to what we have learned on digitization, Jewish journalism and languages, and more. I will elaborate on both our objectives and experience as well as on our immediate plans.

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Dov Winer – Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana; Minerva Israel / European Association for Jewish

Culture, Jerusalem Dov Winer is a psychologist formed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Brazil he has been a Kibbutz member. Founded the Israel Internet Society and included Israel in the EUN association of European Ministries of Education for ICT (member of its Steering Committee) and MINERVA (Ministerial Network for Valorizing Activities in digitization). He proposed an Internet Global Jewish Network (1989) and planned it for the Ministry of Communications (1991-2); managed the JAFI eJewish.info project for Jewish networking infrastructures; participates in many EC backed projects among them MOSAICA; Judaica Europeana; Digital Manuscripts to Europeana. Co-Chairs the EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture since 2004 and has taught a post-graduate seminar on Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University.

Europeana and LOD: Enhancing Jewish and Israeli Digital Contents Digitization initiatives began due to long term preservation concerns. Questions concerning their impact have now come to the fore: The measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community for which the resource is intended. Jewish and Israeli digital resources can now be enhanced with relevant encyclopedias and controlled vocabularies through a LOD approach. The resulting knowledge grid can help bridge the gap between the digital resources and the knowledge of the intended communities of users. It will expand their application in narratives, scholarly research, higher education, K12, cultural tourism, genealogy and more.

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Yossi Zwecker – Stage Photographer, Tel Aviv Yossi Zwecker, began his professional life in photography at an early age. During his military service in the IDF he served as a photographer for three years. Immediately afterwards he started working as a full-fledged photographer for Hadashot Daily Newspaper for ten years. Later he continued on to working on television and movies productions, and gradually started to specify in stage arts photography. For the last 15 years he has been working for all the major theatre companies, dance groups and the only Opera house in Israel. He has also contributed to quite a few exhibits and served as curator for three others. Recent exhibitions include:

• “Just a Minute Before”. 2013. Herzliya Hall of Arts; Holon Theatre (Solo exhibit) • “Moments of Home”. 2010. Tel Aviv Port (Curator) • “In a Different Light”. 2009. Israeli Photography Festival POV (Solo exhibit) • “Israel's Trail”". 2008. Beit Manny (Curator)

Opera Photography: the Complex Task of Conveying Music in Pictures Opera is one of the most complicated forms of art. It is a combination of music, acting, breathtaking sets, numerous people on the stage, dramatic lighting, and above all, mesmerizing voices. An entire elaborate production supports the divine singing. The challenge in taking pictures for these abundant productions is not only technical but is even more profound. The pictures are supposed to capture that which is not attainable—the major beauty of the Opera, the angelic voices. In my presentation I will explain how I use my love for music in general, and especially for the opera to convey the many layers of every piece, and to try to compensate for the lack of music in the photos with visual elegance.

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HARVARD EVA MINERVA CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

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CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Michal Adar, Cultural Preservation Office, Prime Minister’s Bureau, Jerusalem

Irit Aharony, Senior Preceptor in Modern Hebrew, Harvard University

Tal Angel, Tel Aviv

George Blumenthal, New York

Moshe Caine, Head, Department of Interactive Communications, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

Dan Cohen, Founding Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America, Boston

Alan Divack, Program Officer, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York

Aviv Eytan, Dantec Ltd., Jerusalem

Franziska Frey, Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian; Head of Preservation and Digital Imaging Services, Harvard Library, Harvard University

David Gilner, Director, Hebrew Union College Library, Cincinnati

Yitshak Goren, Chairman of the Board, Israel International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

Douglas Gragg, Library Director, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University

David Hahn, Official Receiver of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem

Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media & Head of Internet Office, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

James Hemsley, EVA Minerva, London

Eyal Landesman, Artist, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

Dafnah Levenvirth, Chief Information Officer, Dantec Ltd., Jerusalem

Shmuel Levenvirth, Head of Technology, Dantec Ltd., Jerusalem

Zahavah Levenvirth, Dantec Ltd., Jerusalem

Dafnah Metar, Collector, Metar Archive, Tel Aviv

Roberta Newman, Director of Digital Initiatives, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

Caraid O'Brien, Independent Artist, New York

Reuven Pinski, Senior Director of the Heritage Division, Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Jerusalem

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CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Eldad Rafaeli, Artist, Photographer, Art Director, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv

Sinai Rusinek, Polosnky Post-Doctoral fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem

James Shulman, President, ArtStor, New York

Lena Stanley-Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture; Coordinator, Judaica Europeana, London

Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Yaron Tsur, Professor, History Dept., Tel Aviv University and director and founder of Historical Jewish Press online archive, Tel Aviv

Yona Wiesenthal, Chief Editor for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Jerusalem

Dov Winer, Scientific Manager, Judaica Europeana; Minerva Israel / EAJC European Association for Jewish Culture, Jerusalem

Silvana Winer, Jerusalem

Saul Zaritt, PhD Candidate, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Yossi Zwecker, Stage Photographer, Tel Aviv

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: THE HARVARD JUDAICA DIVISION

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Charles Berlin Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, and Head, Judaica Division, Harvard Library

Violet Radnofsky Littauer Hebraica Technical and Research Services Librarian,

Judaica Division, Harvard Library Vardit Samuels Library Assistant,

Judaica Division, Harvard Library Elizabeth Vernon Lee M. Friedman Judaica Technical Services Librarian,

Judaica Division, Harvard Library

The Harvard Library Judaica Division The Judaica Collection of the Harvard Library has as its mission the documentation of the Jewish people throughout history in order to support teaching and research at Harvard and to serve as a resource for the global scholarly community. To carry out the mission of the Judaica Collection, the Judaica Division collects in great depth materials covering all aspects of Jewish life and culture in every place and period, with particularly comprehensive coverage of Jewish life and culture in the State of Israel. These materials are acquired from all parts of the world, in all languages, and in all formats – analog or digital – including books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, posters, broadsides, photographs, microforms, sound recordings, videorecordings, and the content of internet websites. Special emphasis is placed on materials in Hebrew, particularly from the State of Israel, which constitute the single largest component of the Judaica Collection. To further its mission, the Judaica Division strives to assure that these materials are available to scholars and students through an efficient and cost-effective collection management program. That program’s chief components are prompt computerized cataloging through HOLLIS and other Harvard Library online catalogs, appropriate preservation strategies, and a program of public services that includes bibliographic consultation, events, and publications, as well as providing access to Judaica resources elsewhere. The Judaica Division seeks to strengthen the financial resources available to carry out its mission by obtaining endowments for acquisition of materials, library programs, and Judaica Division staff positions, as well as gifts for current use. In recognition of Harvard’s having a world-class Judaica collection, and especially in view of its having the largest collection of Israeli and Israel-related materials outside of the State of Israel, the Judaica Division seeks to make appropriate and meaningful contributions to the research library community, particularly through sharing Harvard’s computerized bibliographic data and through the fostering of cooperative projects with other institutions.

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