Unveiling the Past: AI Brings New Insights to Jewish History | Science-Environment

Vast Trove of Medieval Jewish Records Opened Up by AI

A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analyzing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew manuscripts using Machine Learning, including manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza, holds up a 12th century fragment of a Yom Kippur liturgy in Jerusalem, Nov. 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts str…

AI unlocks Cairo Genizahs hidden world

AI unlocks Cairo Genizah’s hidden world. A new automatic transcription project makes 400,000 medieval fragments fully searchable for the first time. The post AI unlocks Cairo Genizahs hidden world appeared first on Jerusalem World News.

AI opens vast trove of medieval Jewish records from the Cairo Geniza

The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a century.

Vast trove of mediaeval Jewish records opened up by AI

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new transcription tool that uses artificial intelligence.

Unveiling the Past: AI Brings New Insights to Jewish History | Science-Environment

Researchers in Israel are using AI to transcribe manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza, the world's largest collection of medieval Jewish documents. This project, supported by the European Research Council, aims to uncover new historical insights by digitally processing and cataloguing these centuries-old texts.

Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI

By Hannah ConfinoJERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new transcription tool that uses artificial intelligence. The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a century but only a fraction of…