Rabbi Avraham Weiss begins his recent article, “Women and the Reading of the Megillah,” with the questions: “May women read the Megillah for other women, and for that matter, may women read the Megillah for men?” Rabbi Weiss devotes the great majority of his essay to the first issue, and while a number of points as well as the conclusion remain debatable, his essential arguments in favor of a w...

this paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. the paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Although the symptoms of enteric fever had been described before very accurately, especially by French writers, it was reserved for Stewart, in 1840, to point out the difference between it and typhus fever and to establish the fact that they are two distinct diseases, and. for Jenner and Murchison subsequently to show that the circumstances which favour their spread are essentially different. B...

Italics in Rayer’s text indicate words and phrases emphasized by him. The footnotes to the translation are taken from the original 1840 French edition. Where Rayer used abbreviated book titles, these have been given in full. Other additions appear in square brackets. The full names and dates of writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century cited in these notes are given as far as possibl...

shahrnushparsipur and marguerite duras are two contemporary iranian and french writers who share some similarities in their works due to the facts such as being a woman, a writer, an intellectual, living in a twenty century world and having experienced different feminist approaches and living in the east. the question is then what are these similarities? the research hypothesis based on the que...

This article brings ecocritical and historical approaches together with literary analysis to provide the first in-depth of chocolate in French novels. It argues that is a uniquely hybrid, indeterminate substance both literal figurative terms it enables writers ask questions about human nature our status as civilized, textual beings. Examining examples from range writers—Stendhal, Huysmans, Vern...

Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...