Ruthie Kaplan

Ruthie Kaplan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Jewish History at Haifa University, under the supervision of Prof Marcos Silber, with co-advisors Prof Laura Vaughan from Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and Prof Ivor Samuels from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. 

Her Ph.D. study examines the physical space where many Jewish inhabitants of Łódź resided during the interwar period and the perception of this space in the eyes of Jewish inhabitants and authorities. The vast number of sources and their character have led to the use of methodologies from the field of Digital Humanities. Alongside that, the analysis of ego documents completes the subjective part of the research.  

Ruthie is an architect by training and a graduate of the Architecture and Town Planning faculty at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Her M.A. thesis examined the Jewish District in Łódź in the 19th century using urban morphology methods. 

Her work on Jewish Łódź in the 19th century was exhibited at Haifa University’s Gallery in collaboration with Indiana University and the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź. She is a second-time Azrieli fellow and was part of the digital humanities eLijah-Lab at Haifa University.