The project archive of the 2017 Judaica laboratory phase contains approximately 2TB of audiovisual materials: primarily audiovisual recordings generated by the DCTV method, as well as recorded audio conversations, photos, and video essays.
Whittingehame College was a Jewish boys' school located in Brighton and Hove between 1931 and 1958 and in Handcross Park from 1958 until 1967. Whittingehame's founder was the British Zionist, Jakob Halévy (1898 - 1978). During the years of its existence, the school underwent significant transformations. From educating British Jewry in the early 1930s, Whittingehame attracted Jewish students from Germany and central Europe in the mid-1930s. After the war, Jewish students from Muslim-majorities countries in West Asia and North Africa (especially Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Iran and Afghanistan) increasingly sought admission to the school. This data comprises twelve videos of interviews conducted by Magnus Marsden and Paul Anderson with former students at the College. The interviews were conducted and recorded in Brighton on 10th September 2023, in the context of a College reunion.
This Database contains currently 198 Profiles of individual works of ancient Jewish literature, described according to the criteria and structure of the Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity (which is the subject of a forthcoming monograph, and published as a document on the Project website). Profiles tend to be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long each. A number of other texts will be added (those are already identified by greyed out names). These include a number of (a) individual Tractates of the Mishnah, Tosefta, or Talmuds, which are structurally very much similar to others already represented by a Profile in the Database or (b) individual Targums for which the same holds, and whose literary structures were the subject of a theme issue of Aramaic Studies (vol. 9:1, 2011) devoted to the Project methodology and database. The missing Profiles will be produced in the course of 2012 by A. Samely, P. Alexander and R. Hayward, in order to complete the Database. The completed Database will have some 312 Profiles.
The data collated is largely gathered through individuals with members of diaspora Afghans from a variety of religious backgrounds, including those identifying as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Jewish. The study focuses on diaspora settings in which these communities are especially established, notably London and New York. Individuals were selected to be interviewed on the basis of their playing an active role in the life of the communities and also on the basis of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the researcher. The data also includes a discussion of the ethnographic work undertaken by the researcher in the form of a series of reports. Included also are notes in a book on Afghanistan's Hindu community (translated from Persian).
