Jews of Asia and Africa in the modern period. As an Israeli historian with a deep interest in the annals of Israeli society, Tsur sees this creative tension as vital force in shaping both ethnic stratification but also occasional mobility within the Jewish polity. In recent years Tsur has returned to exploring Jewish-Muslim relations in various pre-modern and modern settings. Digital Humanities Tsur has enjoyed a parallel career as an academic entrepreneur in the currently blossoming field of the digital humanities. His first efforts in this direction was the creation of a 'Jews from Islamic lands' heritage website under the auspices of Tel Aviv University's humanities faculty, where students would have access to mainly secondary material on the subject, especially scanned for this purpose, as well as to maps and other means of visual illustration that enhance and enrich their learning experience. Eventually this website began a continuing association with the Israeli ministry of Education, and is now expanding its content. In 2004 Tsur founded 'website of Jewish newspapers', renamed a year later 'Jewish historical press' (JPress). A now joint venture of TAU and Israel's National Library, the technological breakthrough that made this site possible is a search engine capable of multi-lingual searches of scores of Jewish serials from around the world; a cultural milestone in and of itself. A second's long search was now transforming a scholarly once very taxing for the modern Jewish historian or otherwise interested individual. The initial goal had been to scan the entire Hebrew language press; a still ongoing task. Serials now searchable include Doar Hayom, Davar, Al-Hamishmar, Maariv, Hatzofeh and Herut, as well as dozens of others. Since then, however, many other Jewish languages have found a home on this website, such as Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, not to mention European tongues such as English, French, Polish and Hungarian. With close to 1.5 million pages already scanned and searchable, this once modest enterprise is now a global treasure trove of information on Modern Jewry, of which Tsur serves as academic director and editor in chief. Prizes and Academic activities and achievements Tsur has spent sabbaticals and taught at a host of institutions abroad such as the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as in the EHESS. In the United States he has been a fellow at both the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Frankel Institute at