Just an ordinary Jew

The personalities of twins: just ordinary folks.

Twin studies have demonstrated that personality traits show moderate genetic influence. The conclusions drawn from twin studies rely on the assumptions that twins are representative of the population at large and that monozygotic and dizygotic twins are comparable in every way that might have bearing on the traits being studied. To evaluate these assumptions, we used Multidimensional Personalit...

Ambivalent jew

Was Wittgenstein a Jew?*

In my mind's eye, I can already hear posterity talking about me, instead of listening to me, those, who if they knew me, would certainly be a much more ungrateful public . And I must do this: not hear the other in my imagination, but rather myself. Le ., not watch the other, as he watches me for that is what I do rather, watch myself. What a trick, and how unending the constant temptation to lo...

To be a Jew

The basic role of Jews is defined as creating a motivating contrast between the mass of the people who often get into trouble, and the subsequently arising leader (prophet) who calls for conscience in order to help the people to survive the trouble.

An essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer

this article offers a reflexive and anthropological contribution to the current volume of scripta Instituti Donneriani aboensis. It reflects on the experience of conducting anthropologic al work at home – or across homes – I considered this research to be an experience of ‘Jewish ethnog raphy’ as a Jewish ethnographer. However, my own ‘Jew-ish’ background meant that I had become ‘neither fish n...