YidTakNL corpus: 18th-19th centuries regulations of the High German Jewish community in Holland ...

The YidTakNL corpus comprises Yiddish regulations and announcements by Amsterdam's Ashkenazi Jewish community between 1708 and 1846. All items are related to social, political and administrative aspects of community life. The YidTakNL corpus was produced as part of an ongoing PhD dissertation in Erasmus University Rotterdam (2021-2026) by Ronny Reshef. The bibliography in the Excel-sheet "Zenodo statutes for YidTakNL" is based on Mirjam Gutschow's extensive bibliography, Inventory of Yiddish publications from the Netherlands: c. 1650 - c. 1950 (Leiden: Brill, 2007). However, it only focuses on... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Gutschow, Mirjam
Reshef, Ronny
Dokumenttyp: dataset
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Yiddish / 18th century / regulations / Netherlands / Amsterdam / Transkribus
Sprache: Yiddish
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29070949
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11179901

The YidTakNL corpus comprises Yiddish regulations and announcements by Amsterdam's Ashkenazi Jewish community between 1708 and 1846. All items are related to social, political and administrative aspects of community life. The YidTakNL corpus was produced as part of an ongoing PhD dissertation in Erasmus University Rotterdam (2021-2026) by Ronny Reshef. The bibliography in the Excel-sheet "Zenodo statutes for YidTakNL" is based on Mirjam Gutschow's extensive bibliography, Inventory of Yiddish publications from the Netherlands: c. 1650 - c. 1950 (Leiden: Brill, 2007). However, it only focuses on regulations written and published by community leaders or charitable organisations for the benefit of the community. Gutschow's bibliography was rechecked, corrected, and four items were added, resulting in 64 sources. Most of the listed items are fully available online (reference is provided).Texts from the corpus were used to train a Transkribus PyLaia HTR model. This model is dedicated to Yiddish texts printed in ...