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Email: renana.keydar@mail.huji.ac.il

Faculty of Law and Digital Humanities

The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus,

9190501, Jerusalem, Israel

I am a senior lecturer (tenure track) of Law and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . At HUJI, I am the academic director of the Center for Digital Humanities DH@HU and I head the Alfred Landecker Lab for the Computational Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies. I am also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies (2024-25).

I am one of the leading members of Edut 710 (Testimony 710) initiative—a grassroots, volunteer-based, civil organization for the documentation of survivor testimony of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Southern Israel.

I hold a degree in law and political science from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Before joining as a faculty member, I was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Minerva Center for Human Rights and in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University. In my research I analyze legal and personal narratives of mass atrocity and systematic human rights violations using advanced computational text analysis techniques from the fields of DH and NLP. My schoalrship has been published in leading journals such as Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of International Criminal Justice and Jewish Studies Quarterly. Prior to my graduate studies, I served as an advocate in Israel State Attorney's Office - High Court of Justice Department.