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A large‐scale data‐driven analysis of censorship of hebrew manuscripts in Italy
Author(s) -
Prebor Gila,
ZhitomirskyGeffet Maayan,
Miller Yitzchak
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401156
Subject(s) - censorship , hebrew , scale (ratio) , history , classics , political science , geography , law , cartography
In this study, we present the first large‐scale quantitative analysis of the full corpus of censored historical Hebrew manuscripts that survived through the centuries. A new multi‐dimensional data‐driven approach was applied to explore the influence of censorship on the creation of new manuscripts by Hebrew writers in Italy during the 16 th ‐ 18th centuries. Our findings demonstrate that there was a substantial decrease in creation of new manuscripts in the periods of high censorship activity.