Ophir Münz-Manor is an associate professor of rabbinic culture at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies. He is a specialist in Jewish liturgy and liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. His studies focus on the intersections with contemporary Christian texts, as well as questions of ritual, performance, and gender in Late Antique Near Eastern cultures. In recent years, Prof. Münz-Manor has embarked on several projects that combine traditional literary analysis with quantitative and computerized methods from the realm of computational literary studies and the digital humanities. From October 2019, Prof. Münz-Manor has served as Dean of Academic Studies at the Open University.
Münz-Manor's was the guest editor of a special issue of
Jewish Studies Quarterly (Volume 29, 2022) devoted to Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies.
Projects:
Critique of Pure Digital Reason: Validating Distant Reading from a Comparative Perspetive
FigureOut: Automatic Detection of Hebrew Metaphors throughout the Ages
Selected publications:
Visualization of Categorization: How to see the wood and the trees. in DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly), Volume 17, Number. 3, 2023.
A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry. 2024.
Style Transfer of Modern Hebrew Literature Using Text Simplification and Generative Language Modeling. With Pavel Kaganovich and Elishai Ezra-Tsur. Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR), 391-412. 2023.
Unsupervised Style Transfer of Modern Hebrew using Generative Language Modeling and Zero-Shot Prompting. With Pavel Kaganovich and Elishai Ezra-Tsur. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2023.
Jewish Studies Quarterly. Guest editor of a special issue devoted to Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies. Volume 29, 2022.
El'azar Birabi Qilir's Piyyutim for Hannukah: A critical edition based on manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah with introductions, commentary and indices. Peamim Supplement 4. Ben Zvi Institute 2022.
Computational Studies in the Humanities - A Reader. With Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky. The Open University of Israel Press, 2022.
Quantifying Piyyut: Computerized Explorations of Ancient Hebrew Liturgical Poetry. 2024.
Psalms In/On Jerusalem. With Ilana Parde. De Gruyter, 2019.