19th century Hebrew Press Reuse Network
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Zef Segal, College of Management Academic Studies
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Project Citation:
Segal, Zef. 19th century Hebrew Press Reuse Network. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E231662V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This dataset supports a study of textual reuse in the Hebrew-language press between 1856 and 1897—a period during which Jewish communities, dispersed across Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, created a shared communicative infrastructure through Hebrew newspapers.
The dataset includes approximately 130,000 articles drawn from 13 Hebrew-language periodicals, digitally processed and compared using a Hebrew-language plagiarism detection tool (Originality). It identifies over 300,000 instances of sentence-level reuse between articles, with metadata on source and target journals, the number of shared sentences, and time lags. Only reuse between Hebrew texts was analyzed; translations from non-Hebrew sources were excluded. By mapping these intertextual connections, the project reconstructs a transnational media network that functioned as a global Jewish “town square.” The data enables exploration of editorial behavior, thematic clustering, and the role of journalism in diasporic identity formation.
The dataset includes approximately 130,000 articles drawn from 13 Hebrew-language periodicals, digitally processed and compared using a Hebrew-language plagiarism detection tool (Originality). It identifies over 300,000 instances of sentence-level reuse between articles, with metadata on source and target journals, the number of shared sentences, and time lags. Only reuse between Hebrew texts was analyzed; translations from non-Hebrew sources were excluded. By mapping these intertextual connections, the project reconstructs a transnational media network that functioned as a global Jewish “town square.” The data enables exploration of editorial behavior, thematic clustering, and the role of journalism in diasporic identity formation.
Funding Sources:
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The Open University (511669)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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textual reuse;
journalism;
Jewish history
Geographic Coverage:
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Middle East,
Eastern Europe,
Western Europe
Time Period(s):
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1/1/1856 – 12/31/1897
Data Type(s):
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aggregate data;
text
Methodology
Data Source:
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13 nineteenth-century Hebrew newspapers (1856-1897):
- HaMagid
- Ha-Melits
- Ḥa-Karmel
- Ha-Tsefira
- Ḥavatselet
- Ḥa-Levanon
- HaIvri/Ivri Anochi
- Judea and Jerusalem
- Mahazike Ha-Dat/Kol Mahazike Ha-Dat
- HaZvi/HaOr
- Ha-Yom
- Hashkafah
- Ha-Me’asef
Collection Mode(s):
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other
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