Joseph Weiss (1918-69) showed a single-minded commitment to identifying and describing the mystical element in hasidism and to unravelling the spiritual and historical meaning of the hasidic movement. The studies collected here are still quoted in every serious study of hasidism. Joseph Dan's Introduction, written specially for this paperback edition, examines Weiss's scholarship both in the context of subsequent scholarly research and in the light of the resurgence of hasidism since the Second World War. He concludes that many of Weiss's detailed, perceptive, and empathetic studies are as relevant to understanding developments in the contemporary hasidic world as they are for understanding the emergence and growth of hasidism in the eighteenth century.

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures - for themselves and for their non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.

Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music. By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz. Following what the author calls the “categorical imperative” of music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby, the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession, the author defends critical music as a singular index of political possibilities.

Excerpt from Kondensation: Ein Lehr-und Handbuch ber Kondensation und Alle Damit Zusammenh ngenden Fragen, Auch Einschliesslich der Wasserr ckk hlung; F r Studierende des Maschinenbaues, Ingenieure, Leiter Gr sserer Dampfbetriebe, Chemiker und Zuckertechniker Beim Aufkommen der Burckhardt Weiss'schen Schieber luftpumpen mit Druckausgleich in den achtziger Jahren fanden selbe gleich auf ihrem eigentlichsten Gebiet Verwendung als \n kuumpumpen' und zwar bei Kondensatoren von Verdampfappara ten in Zuckerfabriken, welche Kondensatoren meistens schon mit barometrischem Fallrohr zur Abfuhr des warmen Wassers arbeiteten. Indem diese Schieberpumpen einen viel h heren volumetrischen Wirkungsgrad haben als die fr heren Klappen und Ventilpumpen, ferner bei abgeschlossenem Saugstutzen in diesem ein Vakuum bis auf wenige Millimeter an das absolute heran erzeugen, erwartete man in den betreffenden Kreisen durch Anwendung dieser Pumpen nicht nur eine bedeutende Verbesserung des Vakuums in Konden sator und Verdampfapparaten, sondern in zahlreichen F llen eine Erniedrigung des Druckes sogar noch unter den der Temperatur des Ablaufwassers entsprechenden Dampfdruck, also etwas physi kalisch Unm gliches! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.