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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used
formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure
favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular
significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left
for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of
thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective
petitions in the face of state-sponsored violence. This volume
offers the first extensive analysis of petitions authored by Jews
in nations ruled by the Nazis and their allies. It demonstrates
their underappreciated value as a historical source and reveals the
many attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution
and actively struggle for survival.
This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as
a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a
simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and
aspirations.
Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of
cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural difference or a
universalist morality that arise from contemporary experiences of
mobility and globalization. Challenging these assumptions, the book
explores the degree to which a 'cosmopolitan dimension' can be
practised within particular religious communities, diasporic ties,
or gendered migrant identities in different parts of the world. A
wide variety of expert contributors offer rich ethnographic
insights into the interplay of social interactions and cosmopolitan
sociability. In this way the book contributes significantly to
ethnic and migration studies, global anthropology, social theory,
and religious and cultural studies.
Cosmopolitan Sociability was originally published as a special
issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Prior to Hitler's occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the
areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by
1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and
murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive
account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region,
detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously
overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced
labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence,
Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as
their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex
actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the
Czech government and local authorities.
In this collection, contributors analyze the depiction of
scientists in a wide range of films and television programs that
span across genres, including horror, science fiction, crime drama,
comedy, and children's media. Scientists in popular culture, they
argue, often embody the hopes and fears associated with real-life
science, which continue to be prevalent in both fictional and
non-fiction media. By becoming the "human face" of scientific
insight and innovation, the scientist in popular culture plays a
key role in encouraging public engagement with scientific ideas.
Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health
communication will find this book particularly useful.
This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the German
Reich between 1933 and 1937. The documents illustrate the ways in
which the Jews in Germany were thrown out of their jobs and
excluded from public institutions and public life, and how the
Nuremberg Laws reduced the status of German Jews to second-class
citizens and set out to sever the ties between Jewish and
non-Jewish Germans. It documents the political calculations and
strategy of the Nazi ruling elite in relation to antisemitic
measures, and the local outbreaks of violence and terror against
the Jewish population. It also illustrates the widespread
indifference of non-Jewish Germans. In 1935 the Berlin rabbi
Joachim Prinz described how the circumstances for the Jewish
population had changed: 'The Jew's lot is to be neighbourless. We
would not find it all so painful if we did not have the feeling
that we once did have neighbours.' Learn more about the PMJ on
https://pmj-documents.org/
Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of
Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume
analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed
territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as
the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous
populations. They demonstrate that diverse anti-Jewish policies
developed in the different territories, which in turn affected
practices in other regions and even influenced Berlin's decisions.
Having these systematic studies together in one volume enables a
comparison - based on the most recent research - between
anti-Jewish policies in the areas annexed by the Nazi state. The
results of this prizewinning book call into question the common
assumption that one central plan for persecution extended across
Nazi-occupied Europe, shifting the focus onto differing regional
German initiatives and illuminating the cooperation of indigenous
institutions.
Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and
sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that
region The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, with its history
of multiple cultural and social transformations, as well as mixture
of national and regional scientific styles, has lately attracted
much attention from scholars of various disciplines. This book
explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and
provides different answers to one central question: How has the
circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced
medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience, during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The anthology consists of ten
chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were
developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of
traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this
collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects
relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic
Sea. The contributing authors are historians, physicians,
geographers, ethnologists, and scholars of literature.
CONTRIBUTORS: Katharina Beier, Motzi Ekloef, Frank Gruner, Martin
Gunnarson, Nils Hansson, Axel C. Huntelmann, Ken Kalling, Michaela
Malmberg, Joanna Nieznanowska, Anders Ottosson, Maike Rotzoll, Erki
Tammiksaar, Jonatan Wistrand NILS HANSSON is Associate Professor in
the Department of the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at
the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. JONATAN WISTRAND teaches
in the Department of Medical History, Lund University, Sweden.
?Density Waves in Solids is written for graduate students and
scientists interested in solid-state sciences. It discusses the
theoretical and experimental state of affairs of two novel types of
broken symmetry ground states of metals, charge, and spin density
waves. These states arise as the consequence of electron-phonon and
electron-electron interactions in low-dimensional metals.Some
fundamental aspects of the one-dimensional electron gas, and of the
materials with anisotropic properties, are discussed first. This is
followed by the mean field theory of the phases
transitions?discussed using second quantized formalism?together
with the various experimental observations on the transition and on
the ground states. Fluctuation effects and the collective
excitations are reviewed next, using the Ginzburg-Landau formalism,
followed by the review of the interaction of these states with the
underlying lattice and with impurities. The final chapters are
devoted to the response of the ground states to external
perturbations.
Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of
Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume
analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed
territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as
the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous
populations. They demonstrate that diverse anti-Jewish policies
developed in the different territories, which in turn affected
practices in other regions and even influenced Berlin's decisions.
Having these systematic studies together in one volume enables a
comparison - based on the most recent research - between
anti-Jewish policies in the areas annexed by the Nazi state. The
results of this prizewinning book call into question the common
assumption that one central plan for persecution extended across
Nazi-occupied Europe, shifting the focus onto differing regional
German initiatives and illuminating the cooperation of indigenous
institutions.
This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a
variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that
contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading,
these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous
ploy, but rather an essential, occasionally fraught, by turns
escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly
contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills
or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter
that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today,
the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered
and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and
reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations
reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and
suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and
communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.
This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood
cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late
1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent
civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels' The Butler,
Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with
broad debates on America's recent past. Drawing on extensive
archival research, he traces production history and script
development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers
sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating
Hollywood within a wider series of debates taking place in the US
public sphere, Screening the Sixties offers a rigorous and
innovative study of cinema's engagement with this most contested of
epochs.
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