Who Gets to Write History? Wikibiases.org by Shlomit Aharoni Lir

Podcast: New Books in Jewish Studies · Marshall Poe

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

Most of us use Wikipedia without thinking very much about it. A name comes up in conversation, an argument breaks out, or we suddenly need to know what happened in, for example, 1948—and within seconds, Wikipedia offers us a clean, confident answer. But who decided what that answer would be? Who chose which facts belonged in the opening paragraph and which could wait until paragraph fifteen? Who determined which sources were authoritative? My guest on this podcast is Dr. Shlomit Lir, a researcher at the University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University who specializes in...