The doctor, journalist, Zionist, and essayist of cultural criticism Max Nordau (born as Simon Maximilian Südfeld 1849 Pest – died in Paris 1923), after high school graduation 1867 enrolled Medical School at the University Pest. Aged 37, he became famous once for his book titled Conventional Lies Human Culture (Die conventionellen Lügen der Kulturmenschheit) later ruled narrative set definitions...

Cohen was born in New York to a Hebrew-speaking, moderately Jewish Orthodox and Zionist family of Russian origin. completed his undergraduate education the Theological Seminary America (JTSA) 1943, which is main center Conservative Judaism, simultaneously, City College 1944. also received master's degree JTSA rabbinic diploma 1948. doctorate at University Columbia 1958.Having studied Hebrew you...

At their best, biographies are informative fragments of social, political, and intellectual history. The title of Ken Holmes’ fine biography of Aaron Klug betrays this larger purpose. The subtitle ‘‘a long way from Durban’’ might even have been ‘‘a long way from Zelva’’—the shtetl in Lithuania where Klug was born. For Klug’s story—from Zelva to Durban (at age two), the universities of Witwaters...

Not too many of my scientific colleagues have lived, as I have, through the birth pangs of a new state or felt the need to throw themselves into a lifestyle that is critical for their own survival and their nation’s future. If this sounds dramatic, it is no more and no less than what it was like to be a scientist in the emerging and newly established State of Israel for the larger part of the 2...

it is near seventy years that the question of palestine and its occupation by the zionists has drawn attentions in iran. since the establishment of the zionist regime in palestine, many iranian politicians, intellectuals and even common people with various political backgrounds have paid attention to this question and have shaped several discourses in this regard. supporting the palestinian cau...

The article reviews academic literature in the social sciences and health on the problems and challenges of STD/AIDS prevention in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Based on a bibliographic survey of the SciELO, PubMed, and Sociological Abstracts databases between 1997 and 2007, the research under review was organized into two groups, according to content. The first group of studies sought...

ConstellationsVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 19-33 CRITIQUE OF THE COLONIAL PARADIGM Al-e Ahmad, guardianship, and the critique of colonial sovereignty Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Corresponding Author Sadeghi-Boroujerdi [email protected] Department Politics International Relations at Goldsmiths, University London, UK Correspondence New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. Email: protected]Search for more papers...

This article analyses excesses carried out against civilians in Ireland and Poland after the First World War. It shows how the absence of a centralised state authority with a monopoly on violence allowed for new, less inhibited paramilitary groups to operate in parts of Ireland and Poland. The article argues that certain forms of violence committed had a symbolic meaning and served as messages,...

This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel’s official language, is studied only in religious contexts. Results show that the girls use and prefer to...

How do technologies matter for security politics? This article introduces the kind of arguments an infrastructural approach would focus its answer on. It illustrates how work by focussing on spyware Pegasus developed Israeli company NSO matters Swiss politics. follows showing and why it tend to three things primarily: politics infrastructures is inscribed in, processes infrastructuring software...