19th century Hebrew Press Reuse Network

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Zef Segal, College of Management Academic Studies

Version:  View help for Version V1

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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:  View help for Summary 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. 
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources The Open University (511669)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms textual reuse; journalism; Jewish history
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/1856 – 12/31/1897
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; text

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source 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):  View help for Collection Mode(s) other

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