About

Renana Keydar

 Prof. Renana Keydar

   Faculty of Law and Digital Humanities
   The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus
   9190501, Jerusalem, Israel

 

I am a Professor 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 Brandeis University - Institute for Advanced Israel Studies (2024-25).

I am a leading member 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 scholarship 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 the Israel State Attorney's Office - High Court of Justice Department. 

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