The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture?

Inna  Kizhner; Melissa Terras; Julia Afanaseva; Diana Pusenkova; Maria Sherer; Daniil  Skorinkin

doi:10.1515/9783110744828-003

The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture?

Inna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Julia Afanaseva, Diana Pusenkova, Maria Sherer, Daniil Skorinkin

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Abstract

Digital approaches to Jewish Studies allow collecting data from multiple sources. This enlarges the picture, makes our understanding of historical experiences more complete, and triggers further research questions. This chapter compares samples of artworks from digital online collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Russian State Catalogue of Museum Collections in the Russian Federation. We show that the difference in their temporal and geographical coverage of Jewish artworks/historical documents often results from tagging, naming and understanding of what is deemed Jewish. The collective decisions made in these datasets, by many individuals, and differing institutions about cataloguing, indexing, and returning searches on Jewish culture in a digital age inform what parts of Jewish culture are accessible. The technological and data-led decisions become a part of multiple layers of decisions that inform how primary sources are formed in a digital age.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
Editors	Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi
Publisher	De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages	43-64
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9783110744828
ISBN (Print)	9783110744699
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828-003
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2022
Event	#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age - University of Luxembourg , Luxembourg, Luxembourg Duration: 12 Jan 2021 → 13 Jan 2021 https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/news/cfp-international-conference-dhjewish-jewish-studies-digital-age

Publication series

Name	Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
Publisher	De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Volume	5
ISSN (Print)	2629-4540
ISSN (Electronic)	2629-4559

Conference

Conference	#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
Abbreviated title	#dhJewish
Country/Territory	Luxembourg
City	Luxembourg
Period	12/01/21 → 13/01/21
Internet address	https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/news/cfp-international-conference-dhjewish-jewish-studies-digital-age

Keywords

online museum collections
cultural heritage
indexing
cataloguing
bias
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Russian State Catalogue of Museum Collection

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Kizhner, I., Terras, M., Afanaseva, J., Pusenkova, D., Sherer, M., & Skorinkin, D. (2022). The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture? In G. Zaagsma, D. S. Ben Ezra, M. Rürup, M. Margolis, & A. S. Levi (Eds.), Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (pp. 43-64). (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics; Vol. 5). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828-003

Kizhner, Inna ; Terras, Melissa ; Afanaseva, Julia et al. / The culture of the very rich and very poor : Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture?. Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. editor / Gerben Zaagsma ; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra ; Miriam Rürup ; Michelle Margolis ; Amalia S. Levi. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. pp. 43-64 (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics).

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Kizhner, I, Terras, M, Afanaseva, J, Pusenkova, D, Sherer, M & Skorinkin, D 2022, The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture? in G Zaagsma, DS Ben Ezra, M Rürup, M Margolis & AS Levi (eds), Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics, vol. 5, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 43-64, #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 12/01/21. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828-003

The culture of the very rich and very poor : Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture? / Kizhner, Inna ; Terras, Melissa; Afanaseva, Julia et al.

Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. ed. / Gerben Zaagsma; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra; Miriam Rürup; Michelle Margolis; Amalia S. Levi. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. p. 43-64 (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics; Vol. 5).

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Kizhner I, Terras M, Afanaseva J, Pusenkova D, Sherer M, Skorinkin D. The culture of the very rich and very poor: Do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture? In Zaagsma G, Ben Ezra DS, Rürup M, Margolis M, Levi AS, editors, Jewish Studies in the Digital Age. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 2022. p. 43-64. (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics). Epub 2022 Sep 27. doi: 10.1515/9783110744828-003

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