Dr. Aharon (Roni) Shweka

Books

Y. Sussmann in collaboration with Y. Rosenthal and A. Shweka, Thesaurus of Talmudic Manuscripts, 3 volumes, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute 2012. (Hebrew)

A New Song: Talmudic Essays on Israeli Rock Songs. Jerusalem: Carmel, 2011. (Hebrew)

Articles

• “The Responsa Book of R. Yosef Karo (‘She’elot Utshuvot’), and his Commentary to the Sugya ‘If my father will agree…’ (Kiddushin 63)”, Asufot 8 (1994), pp. 185-208. (Hebrew)
• “The Writings of Shraga Abramson – A Bibliography”, Shraga Abramson – in memoriam. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997, pp. 26-76. (Hebrew)
• “The Controversy about the Marriage Statute of Toledo”, Tarbiz 68 (1998), pp. 87-127. (Hebrew)
• “Concerning The Chapters Nedarim and Nazir in Halakhot Gedolot”, Tarbiz 74 (2005), pp. 305-312. (Hebrew)
• J. Olszowy-Schlanger and R. Shweka, “Newly discovered early palimpsest fragments of the Talmud Yerushalmi from the Cairo Genizah”, Revue des Études Juives 172 (2013), pp. 49-81.
• “The Tablets of Stone and The Law and The Commandment”, Tarbiz 81 (2013), pp. 343-366. (Hebrew)
• “Was the Torah Given ‘One Scroll at a Time’ or ‘Sealed’?”, Sidra 30 (2015), pp. 179-200. (Hebrew)
• “‘And Every Day They Make Quarrels’: A Chapter from the History of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem in the 13^th Century According to Letters of R. Yehiel the Frenchman”, Sefunot 25 (2017), pp. 13-55. (Hebrew)
• “She’iltot d’Rav Achai and the Early Babylonian Homily”, Sidra 32 (2017), pp. 145-202. (Hebrew)
• “A Study of Two Phrases following Yehuda Amichai and Amos Oz”, Al Yad Yechiel: Studies Dedicated to Yechiel Kara, Jerusalem 2018, pp. 157-171. (Hebrew)
• “Two Dialects: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Geonic Aramaic”, E. Bar-Asher Segal and D. Ya’akov (eds.), Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic – Studies in Language and Grammatical Thought, Jerusalem 2020, pp. 256-285 (Hebrew).
• “A She’iltot Rotulus by R. Ephraim Ben Shemarya and the Palestinian Tradition of Sefer haShe’iltot”, Ginze Kedem 16 (2020), pp. 179-231. (Hebrew)
• “A Hidden Gem: In memory of my late father Prof. Yaacov Choueka z”l”, Ginze Kedem 17 (2021), pp. 9-25. (Hebrew)
• “Treasures in Book-Bindings (review on: Simcha Emanuel, Hidden Treasures from Europe, vol II, Jerusalem 2019)”, Zion 87 (2022), pp. 131-139. (Hebrew)
• “The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book”, M. Perani (ed.), Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book Bindings in Italy, Brill: Leiden 2022, pp. 306-320.

Encyclopedic articles

Stillman, Norman (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden: Brill, 2010:

Bustanay ben Kafnay; Yehuday Gaon; Qayyara, Simeon; Amram ben Sheshna Gaon; Samuel ben Hofni Gaon (and his works); Israel ben Samuel Gaon ha-Kohen; Dosa ben Sa`adya Gaon; Joseph Bar Hiyya; Ibn al-Mashita, Daniel; Daniel ben Sa`adya ha-Bavli.

Papers in Digital Humanities

• L. Wolf, R. Littman, N. Mayer, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Automatically Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah. Post ICCV workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation, 2009.
• R. Shweka, Y. Choueka, L. Wolf, and N. Dershowitz. “And Join them One to Another”: Identifying Handwritings and Joining Genizah Fragments by Computer. Ginze Kedem 7, 2011. (Hebrew)
• R. Shweka, Y. Choueka, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, and M. Zeldin. Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Genizah Fragments' Images. Digital Humanities (ADHO). 2011.
• L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, L. Potikha, T. German, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Automatic Paleographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts. Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II, Norderstedt, 2011.
• L. Wolf, R. Littman, N. Mayer, T. German, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 94, 2011.
• L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, L. Potikha, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). 2011.
• L. Wolf, L. Litwak, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Active Clustering of Document Fragments using Information Derived from Both Images and Catalogs. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2011. 
• R. Shweka, Y. Choueka, L. Wolf, and N. Dershowitz. Automatic Extraction of Catalog Data from Digital Images of Historical Manuscripts. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (OUP; formerly: Literary and Linguistic Computing) 28, 2013.
• Ben-Shalom, Y. Choueka, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and L. Wolf. Where is my Other Half? Digital Humanities (ADHO). 2014.
• Ben Shalom, A. Ben Shalom, N. Levy, L. Wolf, T. Hazan, N. Dershowitz, Y. Bar, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Congruency-Based Reranking. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2014.
• Ben Shalom, N. Levy, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, A. Ben Shalom, R. Shweka, Y. Choueka, and T. Hazan. Active Congruency-Based Reranking. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 3, 2016.
• N. Levy, A. Ben-Shalom, I. Ben-Shalom, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz, R. Shweka, and Y. Choueka. Consolidating the Results of Automatic Search in Large-Scale Digital Collections. S. Brookes, M. Rehbein and P. Stokes (eds.), Digital Palaeography, Routledge: UK. To appear.
• R. Shweka, Friedberg Genizah Project, Textual History of the Bible, vol. 3, Brill: Leiden. To appear.