Over the past few years, Dr. Naomi Brenner has been working with colleagues Shachar Pinsker (UM) and Matt Handelman (MSU) on a collaborative project on Jewish feuilletons. Next week they’ll be celebrating the launch of a new digital humanities resource that they have created, “Below the Line: The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures.” It features a growing digital collection of feuilletons related to modern Jewish cultures in a variety of languages, published in newspapers and periodicals throughout the world, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century: https://www.feuilletonproject.org/ which has feuilletons from around the world that deal with Jews, Jewishness, and Jewish cultures, including texts in Hebrew, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic from the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and beyond.
You’re also welcome to join us online on March 15, 2022 from 12-1:30pm (EDT) to hear more about the feuilletons featured in the digital collection and the project’s future plans. For details and registration: https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-events/all-events.detail.html/92674-21694334.html
