{
  "id": 6960788,
  "title": "How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/how-a-new-tool-in-lithuania-helps-people-read-letters-from-their",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-12T17:02:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Times of Israel",
    "slug": "the-times-of-israel",
    "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-new-tool-in-lithuania-helps-people-read-letters-from-their-jewish-ancestors/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "VILNISH, an AI model trained on Yiddish and Hebrew archives, converts handwritten documents into searchable text, giving descendants and scholars access to long-buried family histories The post How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors appeared first on The Times of Israel .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}