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HistoryFigure1936–2020

יעקב שוויקה

Region: Le Caire (naissance), Israël (Université Bar-Ilan)

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Born in Cairo, professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University, where he directed the institute for documentary research and computational linguistics. Played a leading role in the Responsa Project (Bar-Ilan), one of the very first full-text systems in the world (Israel Prize 2007), and in the Friedberg Genizah Project. Described as « scion of a family of rabbis and scholars ».

A book yet to be written

This Great Book has not been written yet. You can start it right here: Claude composes an original work from the archive pieces in the corpus and from web research, then enriches it with every new source contributed.

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Yaacov Choueka give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

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