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Jewish Resources in Computer Networking

Jewish Resources in Computer Networking JEWISH RESOURCES IN COMPUTER NElWORKING 1 by Lucia Ruedenberg New York University ruednbrg@acfcluster.nyu.edu During the summer of 1992, one enthusiastic user on the "JewishNet" discussion list extolled the benefits of computer networking: Why ignore the potential for networking all major Jewish library collections' catalogs? for making Bar Han's responsa database available to any scholar [or] Halachist writing a tshuvah? Can't find genealogical information? Telnet to Beit Hatfutsot's database server and look up your heritage! Suppose we started a forum for "Jewish" recipes, putting them into a database for anyone to access? I think that the potential is there for Jews to make use of the network in many aspects of Jewish life. Remember, during the Russian coup, some of the only information smuggled out of the country was through Amateur Radio and computer networks ... when all official communications channels, especially news and phones, were cut off. If the Jews had had such a network at the time of the Holocaust, the entire world would have heard what was going on very quickly, and the war might have been over much sooner. Whereas the Diaspora Museum does not yet have a database server, tremendous strides have been made http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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JEWISH RESOURCES IN COMPUTER NElWORKING 1 by Lucia Ruedenberg New York University ruednbrg@acfcluster.nyu.edu During the summer of 1992, one enthusiastic user on the "JewishNet" discussion list extolled the benefits of computer networking: Why ignore the potential for networking all major Jewish library collections' catalogs? for making Bar Han's responsa database available to any scholar [or] Halachist writing a tshuvah? Can't find genealogical information? Telnet to Beit Hatfutsot's database server and look up your heritage! Suppose we started a forum for "Jewish" recipes, putting them into a database for anyone to access? I think that the potential is there for Jews to make use of the network in many aspects of Jewish life. Remember, during the Russian coup, some of the only information smuggled out of the country was through Amateur Radio and computer networks ... when all official communications channels, especially news and phones, were cut off. If the Jews had had such a network at the time of the Holocaust, the entire world would have heard what was going on very quickly, and the war might have been over much sooner. Whereas the Diaspora Museum does not yet have a database server, tremendous strides have been made

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesPurdue University Press

Published: Oct 3, 1994

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