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Compassionate Counterterrorism

Leena Al Olaimy

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Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneur. She identifies the economic, social, and political factors that are its true driving forces and offers innovative strategies to address them that have proven far more effective than military interventions alone.From purchasing pay-per-view pornography to smoking pot, many so-called Muslim terrorists prove by their actions that they aren't motivated by devotion to religion, Leena Al Olaimy argues. So why do they really turn to violence, and what does that tell us about the most effective way to combat terrorism? Al Olaimy sets the stage by providing a quick, thoughtful grounding in the birth of Islam in a barbaric Game of Thrones–like seventh-century Arabia, the evolution of fundamentalist thought, and the political failures of the postcolonial period. She shows that terrorists are motivated by economic exclusion, lack of opportunity, social marginalization, and political discrimination. This is why using force to counter terrorism is ineffective—it exacerbates the symptoms without treating the cause. Moreover, data shows that military interventions led to the demise of only 12 percent of religious terrorist groups.Combining compelling data with anecdotal evidence, Al Olaimy sheds light on unorthodox and counterintuitive strategies to address social woes that groups like ISIS exploit. For example, she describes how Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has decreased terrorism while paradoxically becoming more overtly religious. Or how Mechelen, the city with Belgium's largest Muslim population, adopted integration policies so effective that not one of its 20,000 Muslims left to join ISIS. Using religion, neuroscience, farming, and even love, this book offers many inspiring examples and—for once—an optimistic outlook on how we can not just fight but prevent terrorism.
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Affiche du document True Legend Of St. Dunstan And The Devil Showing How The Horse-Shoe Came To Be A Charm Against Witchcraft

True Legend Of St. Dunstan And The Devil Showing How The Horse-Shoe Came To Be A Charm Against Witchcraft

G. Flight Edward

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The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil Showing How The Horse-Shoe Came To Be A Charm Against Witchcraft by Edward G. Flight is a playful and imaginative poem that intertwines folklore and religious symbolism. The poem delves into the origins of the horse-shoe as a powerful charm against malevolent forces, particularly witchcraft and evil spirits. Through this narrative, Flight explores the themes of divine intervention, the power of everyday objects, and the role of superstition in shaping cultural beliefs. The horse-shoe, which has long been seen as a symbol of protection, becomes central to the story, representing both the divine and the mundane in a way that speaks to the human desire for safety and control over the unknown. With vivid imagery and a light-hearted tone, Flight creates a charming exploration of how legends are born and how cultural practices and beliefs are intertwined with both religion and folklore. The poem is an engaging reminder of how symbols and stories evolve over time, often carrying deep meanings that reflect human experiences and fears.
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Living with Animals

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Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides—a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A World of Babies, an edited collection of imagined Dr. Spock manuals from around the world—With Animals focuses on human-animal relationships in their myriad forms.This is ethnographic fiction for those curious about how animals are used for a variety of different tasks around the world. To be sure, animal guides are not a universal genre, so Living with Animals offers an imaginative solution, doing justice to the ways details about animals are conveyed in culturally specific ways by adopting a range of voices and perspectives. How we capitalize on animals, how we live with them, and how humans attempt to control the untamable nature around them are all considered by the authors of this wild read.If you have ever experienced a moment of "what if" curiosity—what is it like to be a gorilla in a zoo, to work in a pig factory farm, to breed cows and horses, this book is for you. A light-handed and light-hearted approach to a fascinating and nuanced subject, Living with Animals suggests many ways in which we can and do coexist with our non-human partners on Earth.
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Visions of Zion

C. MacLeod Erin

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Inreggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of thePromised Land of Ethiopia. “Repatriation is a must!” they cry. The Rastafarihave been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation is acornerstone of their faith. Though Ethiopians see Rastafari as immigrants, theRastafari see themselves as returning members of the Ethiopian diaspora.In Visions of Zion, Erin C. MacLeod offers the first in-depthinvestigation into how Ethiopians perceive Rastafari andRastafarians within Ethiopia and the role this unique immigrantcommunity plays within Ethiopian society.Rastafariare unusual among migrants, basing their movements on spiritual rather thaneconomic choices. This volume offers those who study the movement a broaderunderstanding of the implications of repatriation. Taking the Ethiopianperspective into account, it argues that migrant and diaspora identitiesare the products of negotiation, and it illuminates the implications of thisnegotiation for concepts of citizenship, as well as for our understandings ofpan-Africanism and south-south migration. Providing a rare look at migration to a non-Western country, this volumealso fills a gap in the broader immigration studies literature.
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Bureaucracy of Empathy

Shira Shmuely

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The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act of Parliament, which for the first time imposed legal restrictions on animal experimentation and mandated official supervision of procedures "calculated to give pain" to animal subjects.Exploring how scientists, bureaucrats, and lawyers wrestled with the problem of animal pain and its perception, Shmuely traces in depth and detail how the Act was enforced, the medical establishment''s initial resistance and then embrace of regulation, and the challenges from anti-vivisection advocates who deemed it insufficient protection against animal suffering. She shows how a "bureaucracy of empathy" emerged to support and administer the legislation, navigating incongruent interpretations of pain. This crucial moment in animal law and ethics continues to inform laws regulating the treatment of nonhuman animals in laboratories, farms, and homes around the worlds to the present.
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When Animals Die

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A groundbreaking collection that explores human–animal relations and deaths with depth and hopeWhen Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking book brings together prominent scholars from various disciplines to address the challenging field of animal death studies, incorporating perspectives from social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, and perspectives from beyond academia.The collection explores profound questions about the experience of animal death for both animals and humans. It examines how humans rationalize animal deaths and utilize deceased animals, and sheds light on the interconnectedness of animal death with issues like race, colonialism, gender, capitalism, and other systems of inequality that humans have established and perpetuated.By confronting these pertinent issues, When Animals Die seeks to deepen our awareness of the relationship between animal death and humanity’s involvement in it. While grappling with the reality of humans’ impact on the earth, the collection offers hope for an alternative future that does not entail the mutual destruction of human and other-than-human animals.
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Penser le comportement animal

Florence Burgat

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Dire qu'un animal se comporte à l'égard de ce qui l'entoure qu'est-ce à dire ? Le comportement est constitué par un type de manifestations qui n'appartient qu'à certains vivants ; il forme un flux continu et spontané qu'une étude segmentée détruit nécessairement. Pourtant, ce sont de brèves séquences comportementales isolées au laboratoire que l'on choisit d'étudier. Mais a-t-on encore affaire à un comportement ? Ne l'a-t-on pas ainsi réduit à l'un des éléments qui le composent : les mécanismes physiologiques, le programme génétique, les opérations cognitives, etc. ? On doit alors s'interroger sur les raisons de la prédominance des études de laboratoire et sur les bénéfices qui peuvent être tirés d'une telle production de connaissances. Car ces méthodes décident notamment des conditions de vie de millions de mammifères et d'oiseaux destinés à la consommation. À l'opposé de cette perspective réductionniste, le comportement est compris par les approches phénoménologiques comme l'expression d'une liberté, une relation dialectique avec le milieu. Celles-ci imposent du même coup des conditions d'observation en milieu naturel. Comment, dès lors, élaborer une éthologie plus juste, tant du point de vue de la compréhension du comportement que de celui des besoins, au sens large, des animaux placés sous la domination de l'homme ?
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Éthologie appliquée

Claude Baudoin

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L'éthologie appliquée s'intéresse au comportement des animaux dans leur milieu habituel et en interaction avec l'homme. Les modèles étudiés sont variés : animal de rente, de compagnie, de laboratoire, de sport ou encore animal sauvage, et même entomofaune. Depuis peu, l'approche s'est étendue aux comportements humains. L'éthologie appliquée répond à de multiples préoccupations sociétales, telles que le respect du bien-être animal, la préservation de l'environnement et de la biodiversité, la durabilité des systèmes de production, l'aménagement du territoire ou encore l'amélioration de la santé humaine. Cet ouvrage vise à faire connaître cette jeune discipline scientifique. Il s'adresse à un large public : biologistes, enseignants et étudiants mais aussi professionnels de l'élevage, de l'agronomie, de l'industrie pharmaceutique et vétérinaire, gestionnaires de la faune sauvage, spécialistes du marketing et de l'éducation, et membres d'associations oeuvrant pour le bien-être animal.
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Growing Up Muslim

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"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11.... I’ve heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were matters of honor and North America’s youth culture, with its emphasis on questioning, exploring, and inventing one’s own destiny."—from the Introduction by Eboo PatelIn Growing Up Muslim, Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny present fourteen personal essays by college students of the Muslim faith who are themselves immigrants or are the children of immigrants to the United States. In their essays, the students grapple with matters of ethnicity, religious prejudice and misunderstanding, and what is termed Islamophobia. The fact of 9/11 and subsequent surveillance and suspicion of Islamic Americans (particularly those hailing from the Middle East and the Asian Subcontinent) have had a profound effect on these students, their families, and their communities of origin. 
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Story of a Life

Pavolovna Vygodskaia Anna

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Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia''s autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in the Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia liberated herself from that world and embraced the day-to-day rhythms, educational activities, and new intellectual opportunities in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Her story offers a unique glimpse of Jewish daily life that is rarely documented in public sources—of neighborly interactions, children''s games and household rituals, love affairs and emotional outbursts, clothing customs, and leisure time.Most first-person narratives of this kind reconstruct an isolated and self-contained Jewish world, but The Story of a Life uniquely describes the unprecedented social opportunities, as well as the many political and personal challenges, that young Jewish women and men experienced in the Russia of the 1870s and 1880s. In addition to their artful translation, Eugene M. Avrutin and Robert H. Greene thoroughly explicate this historical context in their introduction.
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Politics of Nonassimilation

David Verbeeten

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Eastern European Jews in the United States developed a left-wing political tradition. Their political preferences went against a fairly broad correlation between upward mobility and increased conservatism or Republican partisanship. Many scholars have sought to explain this phenomenon by invoking antisemitism, an early working-class experience, or a desire to integrate into a universal social order. In this original study, David Verbeeten instead focuses on the ways in which left-wing ideologies and movements helped to mediate and preserve Jewish identity in the context of modern tendencies toward bourgeois assimilation and ethnic dissolution. Verbeeten pursues this line of inquiry through case studies that highlight the political activities and aspirations of three "generations" of American Jews. The life of Alexander Bittelman provides a lens to examine the first generation. Born in Ukraine in 1892, Bittelman moved to New York City in 1912 and went on to become a founder of the American Communist Party after World War I. Verbeeten explores the second generation by way of the American Jewish Congress, which came together in 1918 and launched significant campaigns against discrimination within civil society before, during, and especially after World War II. Finally, he considers the third generation in relation to the activist group New Jewish Agenda, which operated from 1980 to 1992 and was known for its advocacy of progressive causes and its criticism of particular Israeli governments and policies. By focusing on individuals and organizations that have not previously been subjects of extensive investigation, Verbeeten contributes original research to the fields of American, Jewish, intellectual, and radical history. His insightful study will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in those areas.
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Islamic Ecumene

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The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, the co-editors invited a team of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine Muslim societies in comparative and interconnected ways. The result is a book that showcases ethics, education, architecture, the arts, modernization, political resistance, marriage, divorce, and death rituals. Using the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people across the planet who identify as Muslims.
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Jews and Urban Life

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Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings.Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction Contributors Jews in Ancient Civic Life, by Gary Gilbert Urbanizing Jews: Agriculture, Slave Codes, and the Byzantine Empire, by Anthony Meyer Vienna’s Jewish Community, 1819–1826: Glimpses from Beethoven’s Conversation Books at the Dawn of a New Era, by Theodore Albrecht A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Creativity in Venice and Prague, by Ori Z. Soltes The Cosmopolitan Jewish City: A Typology, by Alan Levenson The Social Role of Small Jewish Cultural Centers: The Case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Menachem Keren-Kratz Jewish Urbanization and the Midsize City: The Case of Kaunas, Lithuania, by Motti Zalkin Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s–1930s, by Victoria Khiterer The Yiddish Press in Cleveland, by Sean Martin Jews Create Towns: An Examination of the Impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the Creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides Rescuing that Modest Mansion: The Contributions of Urban Jews to American Historic Preservation, by Barry L. Stiefel Comicus the Cosmopolite: Diasporic Cosmopolitics and the Promise of the City in Mel Brooks’s History of the World, Part I, by David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw City in the Garden, Garden in the City: Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie, and the Design of Urban Reform, by Martin H. Shukert
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Beyond Whiteness

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The concept of ethnicity, once in vogue, has largely gone out of fashion among twenty-first-century social scientists, now replaced by models of assimilation defined in terms of the construction of whiteness and white supremacy. Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America explores the benefits of reconfiguring the ethnic concept as a tool to analyze the experiences of twentieth-century American Jews—not only in relation to other “white” groups of European descent, but also African Americans and Asian Americans, among others. The essays presented here, ranging from comparative studies of Jews and Asians as “model minorities” to the examination of postethnic “Jews of color,” demonstrate that expanding ethnicity beyond the traditional Eurocentric frame can yield fresh insights into the character of Jewish life in the modern United States.FOREWORD INTRODUCTION: TWO CHEERS FOR ETHNICITY 1. Yiddish Leftists as Early Inter-Ethniks, by Elissa Sampson 2. From the Classroom to the Soapbox: Multiethnic Workers Schools and Leftist Parties, by Robert M. Zecker 3. Parkchester: A Suburb in a City and the Challenge to Ethnicity, 1940–circa 1970, by Jeffrey S. Gurock 4. Overrepresented Minorities: Comparing the Jewish and Asian American Experiences, by Jonathan Karp 5. “A bunch of blond meshugeners”: Mormons in the American Jewish Imagination, by Julian Levinson 6. Jewish American Writers and the J-Word, by Hana Wirth-Nesher 7. “I Didn’t Know There Were Epsteins in Puerto Rico”: Jewish Ethnicity in American Comedy, by Jarrod Tanny 8. Like Other (Mixed Parentage) Jews, Only More So: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Jews of Color, by Bruce A. Phillips ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Affiche du document The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel

The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel

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The Trump presidency has resulted in a fundamentally disruptive moment in this nation’s political culture. Not only were there different policy options and directions, but the cultural artifacts of politics changed because of how this president dramatically challenged the existing norms of political behavior and action. As we have shifted from a period of American liberalism to a time of political populism, deep fissures are dividing Americans in general and Jews in particular.The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel unpacks President Donald Trump’s distinctive and unique relationship with the American Jewish community and the State of Israel. Addressing the various dimensions of his personal and political connections with Jews and Israel, this publication is designed to provide an assessment of how the Trump presidency has influenced and altered American Jewish political behavior. Writers from different backgrounds and political orientations bring a broad range of perspectives designed to examine various aspects of this presidency, including Trump’s particular impact on Israel-US relations, his special connection with Orthodox Jews, and his complex and uneven relationship with Jewish Republicans.For liberal American Jews, these four years represented a fundamental revolution, overturning and challenging much that a generation of activists had fought to achieve and protect. For Trump’s supporters, it afforded them an opportunity to advance their priorities, while joining the forty-fifth president in changing the American political landscape. The “Trump effect” will extend well beyond his four-year tenure, creating an environment that has fomented the politics of hate and exposed a deeply embedded presence of anti-Semitism. How Americans understand this moment in time and the ways society will adapt can be reflected through the prism of the Jewish encounter with Trumpism that this volume seeks to explore.FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Consonance or Dissonance: American Jewry in a Post-Trump Era, by Gary Phillip Zola Donald Trump and the Jews: Bad for America, Bad for the Jews, Wonderful for the Netanyahu-Led Government of Israel and Potentially Dangerous to Israel’s Future, by Michael Berenbaum Trump: Friend Extraordinaire to Israel and the Jewish People, by Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq. The Jewish Community and Younger Generations: Challenges, Opportunities, and Long-Term Impacts of the Trump Era, by Adam Basciano and Shanie Reichman The American Jewish Community: A Divergence of Political Perspectives, by Saba Soomekh Orthodox Jews and Trump, by Gilbert N. Kahn Seeing Mar-A-Lago from Jerusalem: Perceptions of President Trump in Israel, by Ehud Eiran How the Jewish Press Saw, by Rob Eshman Why Donald Trump’s Vision Repelled American Jews, by Mark Mellman They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: Historic Achievements of President Donald Trump, by Matthew Brooks and Shari Hillman Trump and the Jews: What Did We Learn?, by Dan Schnur Reflections on Donald Trump’s Presidency and American Jewry, by Steven F. Windmueller ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Jews and Gender

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Jews and Gender features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics. Accessible and comprehensive, this volume will appeal to the general reader in addition to engaging with contemporary academic scholarship.Acknowledgments Editor’s Introduction Contributors The Heroines of Everyday Life: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott An Ironic/Satirical, Subversively Proto-Feminist Reading of the Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36, by Jay Caballero Constructing Gender Bride by Bride: Rabbinic Ideas of Citizenship in Light of Gender, by Susan Marks Gendering Emotion in Genesis Rabbah, by Joel Gereboff The Legalization of Modesty: Sources and Significance, by Emmanuel Bloch Marriage, Motherhood, and the Matriarchs in the Zohar, by Margaret Gurewitz Smith Chasidism and Gender through a New Reading of a Feminist Story of R. Nachman of Breslov, by Roni Bar Lev Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman’s Story, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides “He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People”: Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypes in A. D. Oguz’s Di fraydenker, by Matthew H. Brittingham Locking Up Al Levy: Jewish Masculinity in the Early Civil Rights Movement, by Jeannette Gabriel Golda Meir, Sarojini Naidu, and the Rise of Female Political Leaders in British India and British Mandate Palestine, by Joseph R. Hodes Jewish Feminism as a Model for Judaism as a Choice, by Hannah Kehat The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors: From Elaine May to Claudia Weill, by Lawrence Baron “When You’re a Funny Girl”: Confirming and Complicating Accepted Cultural Images of Jewish Femininity in the Films of Barbra Streisand, by Samantha Pickette “Schlemiel Feminism”: Jewish Humor and Activism on Broad City, by David Gillota Poskot in the Palace of Torah: A Preliminary Study of Orthodox Feminism and Halachic Process, by Gail Labovitz
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Affiche du document New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society

New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society

David N. Myers

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Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines—including history, religious studies, demography, linguistics, and geography—to trace the growing prominence of Haredi (often called ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Jewish life. Haredi Jews are committed to preserving a measure of segregation from the rest of society consistent with the guiding principles of their forebears; yet increasingly, they are appearing more visibly and assertively in public spaces. Demographic analysis suggests that they will constitute a much larger share—nearly one-quarter—of the world Jewish population over the next twenty years. By examining the evolution of political, cultural, and social trends in Haredi communities across the globe, this interdisciplinary and transnational volume sheds important light both on Haredi communities and on the societies of which they are part.FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION PART I: CULTURE AND SOCIETY A “Demographic Hybrid”: Haredi Demography in the Early Twenty-first Century, by Daniel Staetsky Serving the Jews, Serving the Empire: Discursive Hierarchy and Messianic Temporality in Russian Chabad, by Galina Zelenina Innovation and Conservatism in Hasidic Pop Culture and Language, by Chaya R. Nove Communal Self-Regulation and State Law: The Case of the “Kosher Cellphone in Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community”, by Shuki Friedman Stuck in Neutral: Some Ethnographic Reflections on Haredim, Education, and the State, by Lea Taragin-Zeller PART II: POLITICS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Kosher Socialism? A History of Haredi Judaism and the Left, by Nathaniel Deustch Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and the State of Israel: New Perspectives, by Itamar Ben Ami From a Negligible Minority to a Rising Force: Three Formative Events in Post-1977 Haredi History, by Benjamin Brown The Haredi Parties and the Rightist Camp in Israel 1948–2022: From Preference to Default, by Nissim Leon Politics, National Identity, and Democracy: A Comparison of Haredi Political Attitudes and Behavior in the United States and Israel, by Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, David N. Myers, Mark Trencher, and Chaya Lehrfield-Trop ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Affiche du document Le centre d’interprétation dans tous ses ses états

Le centre d’interprétation dans tous ses ses états

Marc Terrisse

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L’expression « centre d’interprétation » demeure assez largement méconnue. Né en Amérique du Nord, cet équipement a longtemps été défini comme un espace d’exposition sans collections utilisant des processus de médiation immersifs. Le terme devient pourtant de plus en plus usité car un nombre croissant de centres d’interprétation fleurit en France, à l’image de la cité des civilisations du vin de Bordeaux ou de Lascaux IV. Compte tenu du développement de ce phénomène relativement peu étudié, il semblait nécessaire de concevoir un ouvrage de synthèse sur les caractéristiques de ces équipements à la frontière du monde des musées et de celui du parc d’attractions. Ce livre a pour finalité d’aider les chercheurs, les professionnels de la culture, du tourisme et des loisirs ainsi que les décideurs politiques à mieux comprendre les spécificités des centres d’interprétation aussi bien au niveau muséographique que dans le domaine de la gestion, des coûts de fonctionnement ou des ressources humaines. La problématique de la durabilité d’un tel équipement, au regard de l’utilisation de médiateurs utilisant les technologies de l’image et du son, est également abordée. Ce travail a été réalisé sur la base d’une large enquête menée auprès de plusieurs gestionnaires de centres d’interprétation en France. Des entretiens avec des spécialistes en muséologie et des consultants ont, en outre, contribué aux analyses présentées.
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Affiche du document Margaret Sanger: an Autobiography

Margaret Sanger: an Autobiography

Margaret SANGER

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Sanger's general interest in sex education and women's health focuses on family, marriage and motherhood. As a nurse she saw graphic examples of the toll taken by frequent childbirth, miscarriage, and self-induced abortion. With access to contraceptive information prohibited on grounds of obscenity by state and federal laws, Sanger realized that many less well-off women did not have freedom from the physical hardships, fear, and dependency inherent in unwanted pregnancy. Awakened to the connection between contraception and working-class empowerment, Sanger became convinced that liberating women from the risk of too many unwanted pregnancies would effect fundamental social change in allowing women to claim their reproductive rights. She was never an advocate of abortion but of birth control. Sanger launched a campaign challenging governmental censorship of contraceptive information by embarking on a series of law-defying confrontational actions designed to force birth control into the center of public debate and eventual accessibility for all women.
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La société des invisibles

Cyril Desjeux

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Les traumatismes crâniens et les accidents vasculaires cérébraux sont les premières causes de handicap acquis. Or, le handicap est politique. Il dépend de choix sociétaux et des priorités que se donnent nos gouvernements, mais il est également une manière de signifier des rapports de pouvoir fondés sur les différences perçues entre les personnes en termes de déficiences, de troubles, d’incapacités et de limitations. Le handicap est aussi performatif car il produit lui-même des parcours, des manières de faire et d’être et il auto-réalise certaines représentations que l’on peut avoir du handicap et de la lésion cérébrale. Enfin, il opère une logique de tri, de classement et de sélection entre certaines particularités et spécificités. Aussi, le handicap inclut une pluralité de situations et en écarte d’autres. « La société des invisibles » dresse un état des lieux et, par des exemples concrets, montre que des territoires et des services s’organisent pour répondre au mieux à ces handicaps malgré un système de contraintes denses et une raréfaction des ressources. Il invite à les comprendre et à promouvoir de nouveaux modèles adaptés à l’accompagnement des personnes cérébrolésées et à leurs proches aidants. Il invite à penser la complexité des situations non plus uniquement au regard de la personne, mais de son environnement et de la manière dont celui-ci se donne les moyens d’y répondre.
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