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Dr. Renana Keydar is an Associate Professor of Law and Digital Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she serves as Academic Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (DH@HU) and heads the Alfred Landecker Lab for Computational Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies. She holds additional affiliations as a 2024-25 Fellow at Brandeis University's Institute for Advanced Israel Studies and is a core member of Edut 710, Israel's largest civil initiative documenting survivor testimonies of the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Her academic credentials include a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University (2015), and magna cum laude degrees in Law and Political Science from Tel Aviv University (2003). Prior to academia, she served as an advocate in Israel's State Attorney's Office - High Court of Justice Department.
Keydar's pioneering research bridges computational methods with humanities scholarship, focusing on:
- Developing AI models for analyzing mass atrocity testimonies using NLP and machine learning
- Creating trauma-informed digital archives for Holocaust and contemporary crisis documentation
- Computational analysis of legal narratives in human rights law and international courts
- Ethical frameworks for applying AI to sensitive historical materials
Keydar has received the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers and leads multiple major initiatives:
- Designing Edut 710's AI-powered testimony platform documenting 1,600+ accounts from October 7 attacks
- Developing 'distant listening' computational methods for Holocaust testimonies
- Directing the Future of the Past research group funded by Israel's Ministry of Science
