Hannah Karminski

HOMILETICS "The Song of Hannah"

(The importance of the preacher's exegetical work is greater than the life-span of one sermon. It has more to do with the life-span of the preacher himself. Exegetical study maketh the exact theologian. His study builds his ministering. It is therefore interesting to examine the relationship between a detailed exegetical study of a text and a sermon that is preached as part of its results. This...

Durkin , Hannah ( 2013 ) Remembering slavery on screen

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Poverty and persecution: the Reichsvereinigung, the Jewish population, and anti-Jewish policy in the Nazi state, 1939-1945.

This job can no longer provide any satisfaction. It now has very little in common with what we used to understand as welfare work. And when it's people that are involved, not property, liquidation is particularly rough. Yet just because we're dealing with human beings, you have those occasional moments when there seems to be some real meaning in still being here. Hannah Karminski (1897-1942), J...