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message: Please cite this dataset using the metadata below.
type: dataset
title: HASH — Hebrew Archive of Scanned Handwriting
abstract: A small, agent-friendly dataset of public-domain (or permissively licensed) scans of handwritten Hebrew documents, paired with per-scan rights evidence. The index is line-oriented JSON (JSONL); rights are recorded at both source and scan level instead of relying on collection-level claims. Release 0.1.0-rc contains 336 scan entries drawn from 51 verified sources (2 CC-BY-SA-4.0, 279 LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Israel, 2 LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Ukraine, 53 PDM-1.0).
abstract: A small, agent-friendly dataset of public-domain (or permissively licensed) scans of handwritten Hebrew documents, paired with per-scan rights evidence. The index is line-oriented JSON (JSONL); rights are recorded at both source and scan level instead of relying on collection-level claims. Release 0.1.0-rc contains 345 scan entries drawn from 59 verified sources (9 CC-BY-SA-3.0, 2 CC-BY-SA-4.0, 279 LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Israel, 2 LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Ukraine, 53 PDM-1.0).
authors:
- name: Shay Palachy-Affek
version: 0.1.0-rc
date-released: '2026-05-16'
date-released: '2026-05-23'
repository-code: https://github.com/HeOCR/hash
url: https://github.com/HeOCR/hash
license: CC0-1.0
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Scan files carry per-entry rights. The entries listed below carry a license that requires attribution (currently CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0). Anyone redistributing or reusing these scans must keep the listed credit and link to the source page on which the rights claim was verified.

- Corpus release: `0.1.0-rc`
- Released at: `2026-05-16T20:47:03Z`
- Released at: `2026-05-23T20:31:45Z`

## Attribution-required entries

### Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach letter on daily Mishnah study (1961)

- Entry: `commons__auerbach_letter_shtenzel_1961__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Shlomo Zalman Auerbach; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%96%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%9A_%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA.pdf>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (הרב_שלמה_זלמן_אויירבך_במכתב_לרבי_יונה_שטנצל_אודות_לימוד_המשנה_היומית.pdf)

### Rabbinical ordination (semichah) from the Będzin Rabbinic Court for Rabbi Yona Shtenzel (1933)

- Entry: `commons__bendin_semichah_shtenzel_1933__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Rabbinical Court of Będzin; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C.pdf>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (כתב_סמיכה_של_בית_דין_בנדין_עבור_הרב_יונה_שטנצל.pdf)

### Manuscript of Itzik Manger's 'Unter di Khurves' (Among the Ruins), page 1

- Entry: `commons__manger_unter_di_khurves__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Itzik Manger; Wikimedia Commons
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuscript_of_Itzik_Manger%27s_Unter_di_Khurves_I.jpg>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (Manuscript_of_Itzik_Manger's_Unter_di_Khurves_I.jpg)

### Manuscript of Itzik Manger's 'Unter di Khurves' (Among the Ruins), page 2

- Entry: `commons__manger_unter_di_khurves__p0002`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Itzik Manger; Wikimedia Commons
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuscript_of_Itzik_Manger%27s_Unter_di_Khurves_II.jpg>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (Manuscript_of_Itzik_Manger's_Unter_di_Khurves_II.jpg)

### Title page of a Yemenite Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer manuscript (1876)

- Entry: `commons__pirke_rebbe_eliezer_yemenite_1876__p0001`
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- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yemenite_MSS._(Pirke_Rebbe_Eliezer)_Copied_in_1876.jpg>
- Scan file URL: <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Yemenite_MSS._%28Pirke_Rebbe_Eliezer%29_Copied_in_1876.jpg>

### Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld letter on Eruv to Rabbi Yona Shtenzel (1947, second side)

- Entry: `commons__weidenfeld_eruv_letter_1947__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Dov Berish Weidenfeld; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%91_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C_%D7%A6%D7%93_%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99.pdf>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (מכתב_אודות_עירוב_בערב_שבת_הרב_דוב_בעריש_וידנפלד_לרבי_יונה_שטנצל_צד_שני.pdf)

### Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld (Tchebiner Gaon) on the importance of daily halacha study (1959)

- Entry: `commons__weidenfeld_letter_shtenzel_1959__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Dov Berish Weidenfeld; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%93%D7%91_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C_%D7%96%D7%A6%D7%9C.JPG>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (הרב_דב_בריש_וידנפלד_על_חשיבות_לימוד_הלכה_יומית_של_הרב_יונה_שטנצל_זצל.JPG)

### Handwritten halachic ruling by Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner (1981)

- Entry: `commons__wosner_halachic_ruling_1981__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Shmuel Halevi Wosner; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%A7_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%A8.pdf>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (פסק_הלכתי_בכתב_ידו_של_הרב_וואזנר.pdf)

### Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner on daily halacha study (1986)

- Entry: `commons__wosner_letter_halakhah_yomit_1986__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Shmuel Halevi Wosner; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%A8_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA.JPG>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (הרב_שמואל_הלוי_וואזנר_על_לימוד_הלכה_יומית.JPG)

### Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner support letter for the national Mishnah competition (1990)

- Entry: `commons__wosner_support_letter_1990__p0001`
- License: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA-3.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Licensor: Shmuel Halevi Wosner; Wikimedia Commons / Mimi4040
- Source page: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%A8_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%22%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%97%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%97%D7%AA%D7%9E_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C.pdf>
- Holding institution: Wikimedia Commons (מכתב_תמיכה_של_הרב_שמואל_הלוי_וואזנר_ליו"ר_החידון_הארצי_של_חתן_המשנה_הרב_שלמה_שטנצל.pdf)

### Vienna Cod. Hebr. 120, fol. 12a (ex-libris Zalman Stern 1849)

- Entry: `commons__zalman_stern_cod_hebr_120__p0001`
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<!-- begin:status -->
## Current Status

The corpus currently contains 336 ingested scans drawn from 51 verified sources, totalling ~358.69 MiB on disk. The source-level index also tracks 4 candidate leads still being researched and 4 source records kept for provenance after being rejected as out of scope.
The corpus currently contains 345 ingested scans drawn from 59 verified sources, totalling ~371.16 MiB on disk. The source-level index also tracks 5 candidate leads still being researched and 12 source records kept for provenance after being rejected as out of scope.

License breakdown across the 336 entries:
License breakdown across the 345 entries:

- 279 `LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Israel` (Public Domain (Israel; life + 70))
- 53 `PDM-1.0` (Public Domain Mark 1.0)
- 9 `CC-BY-SA-3.0` (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported)
- 2 `CC-BY-SA-4.0` (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)
- 2 `LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Ukraine` (Public Domain (Ukraine; life + 70))
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