Gotthard Deutsch’s "monumental card index of Jewish history"
In honor of Yom Kippur today, I'm celebrating with acknowledgement of Gotthard Deutsch’s "monumental card index of Jewish history" (70,000 cards!). More details: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695119830900
I hope everyone had an easy fast.
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No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them. —Umberto Eco
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This paper by Jason Lustig on Gotthard Deutsch's zettelkasten was fascinating: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695119830900. While there's an implication that its use didn't make him as productive (from a writing perspective) as Niklas Luhmann or S.D. Goitein, I might suggest that it made him a more productive thinker and teacher, which in turn bore results in the form of his students who also picked up the practice from him.
My notes on the piece can be found here: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=url:urn:x-pdf:6053dd751da0fa870cad9a71a28882ba
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