On Wednesday, April 15, at noon in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Sinai Rusinek will give a talk entitled, “Unraveling Intertextualities in ‘The Star of Redemption.'”

The “annotated star” is a project aiming to create a collaborative, dynamic digital edition of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption that will combine the tradition of the critical edition with the developing possibilities of open, web-based text annotation. We aim to create a tool which will unveil and display a plethora of sources embedded in the book, as well as the richness and diversity of sources and themes that have characterized its Nachleben since its publication in 1921.

Rusinek is a post-doctoral fellow of the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her main interests are the History of Concepts and Digital Humanities. Her doctoral dissertation, “Criticus, Kritikos, Critick” was written under the supervision of Prof. Yemima Ben Menachem and Dr. Amiel Vardi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It dealt with the way these words functioned in various contexts and discourses from antiquity to Early Modernity, and with how they changed and were formed through these uses. (http://www.vanleer.org.il/en/people/sinai-rusinek, http://www.thedigin.org/en/)

This lecture is sponsored by Judaic Studies and by the Brown University Library.

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence