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Feminist theories maintain that gender issues are a ubiquitous
component of our lives, intersecting with every aspect of the
society in which we live and interact. Because the feminist debate
has included questions important to Jewish discourse, including
religion, antisemitism, Zionism, and the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, it is not surprising that such matters should also be of
concern to Jewish women, many of whom have played an active role in
feminist movements. In Jewish Voices in Feminism, Nelly Las
navigates primarily among three cultures (French, Anglo-American,
and Israeli) to present a philosophical and historical analysis of
the intersection between contemporary Jewish dilemmas and feminism
and its impact on Jewish thinking. She also explains the ambivalent
attitude of feminist activists regarding current developments in
the Jewish world. This book, based on extensive documentation that
includes written and oral testimonies, provides a wide variety of
gender-centered approaches to ethics, solidarity, identity, and
memory.
In a style described as "Carrie Bradshaw" meets Joan Didion meets
David Sedaris, these essays are written from the heart, and from
experience, about life after 50, about the Arts, about Culture,
Education, Travel and People.
The Life Story Of A Swedish American Inventive Genius.
The Life Story Of A Swedish American Inventive Genius.
Let me learn from you so I may better teach you. I am a teacher who
has nothing to say until your voice is heard. Here is a collection
of poetry and essays reflecting the passion of teaching and
learning. It is a tribute to the teacher who you recall with a
smile and remember exactly how he or she opened the doors of
learning for you. It is the voice of the teacher who passionately
searches for the key to open the door of learning for every student
in the class. Read, reflect, and remember.
Interpreters and the Legal Process is intended for people
interested in language, communication, interpreting and translation
as they affect legal matters - including for interpreters and legal
personnel. The book provides explanations and guidance to law
practitioners, administrators and interpreters to help them cope
effectively in a range of legal settings. While focusing on England
and Wales, it provides examples of international good practice and
standards of professional behaviour. Written for everyone concerned
with interpreting situations - whether affecting non-English
speakers or deaf people - Interpreters and the Legal Process is
essential reading for people across the entire legal sphere. The
book is in use for training in various countries. Contents include
Language, Communication, Interpreting and the Law Interpreters and
the Police Part I: Dealing with suspects Part II: Communication and
interpreters Part III: Witnesses and victims Entry into the United
Kingdom Part I: Entry procedures, including: Stage I:
Adjudications; Stage II: Immigration Part II: HM Revenue and
Customs Interpreters and the Courts Part I: Courts in England and
Wales Part II: Interpreters in court Part III: Court procedures
Working with the Probation Service Part I: Criminal cases Part II:
Family proceedings Part III: Probation Service initiatives Prisons
and prisoners Professional Standards Reviews 'Weighty and immensely
readable': Law Society Gazette 'An extremely practical guide': The
Law 'A scholarly work with everyday practical messages': Wig and
Gavel 'A handy little book which was needed': Internet Law Book
Reviews Authors Joan Colin is a justice of the peace and an
independent trainer of interpreters and lawyers in relation to the
topics covered in this book. Ruth Morris is a practitioner and
academic based in Israel and specialising in interpreting and
translating.
This scholarly monograph investigates the representation of Jewish
people, characters, places and customs within the periodical
Belgravia: A London Magazine inclusive of the years 1866-1876. The
magazine, edited for a period by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, contains a
range of articles on many different subjects including history,
politics, literature, tourism etc, and the Jewish presence is clear
within a diverse field of disciplines. The study considers how this
presence changes across the time period and how these changes can
relate to broader societal and political movements that were
occurring. The book also engages with how the magazine incorporates
ideas about specific issues facing Anglo-Jewry such as conversion
and Zionism. This work very much follows on from the previous
research about Braddon and the Jewish Question. It provides a
discursive analysis of the Jewish presence in a similar way to Mary
Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question: A Victorian English
Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859 -
1913 but draws on the references from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's
Belgravia, A London Magazine, and the World of Anglo-Jewry, Jews
and Judaism, 1866 - 1899. There is no other research into the
Jewish presence in Belgravia but the magazine is attracting more
interest with other studies looking into this periodical. There has
been some research into the role of specifically Jewish periodicals
in the nineteenth century but few into how non-Jewish magazines
depicted Jewish people. The work is original but does fit well into
existing fields of contemporary research.
This scholarly monograph offers new research on Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Braddon (1835-1916) who wrote over eighty novels and rivaled
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins in popularity in mid and late
Victorian times. The study looks at the representations of
Yorkshire across over thirty of her novels and analyses her uses of
the Yorkshire dialect, her Yorkshire settings and specific towns
and cities in the county (Braddon mentions more than 25 of these by
name). It provides both an overview of her work and also contains
some in-depth study of specific novels (including the best-seller
Aurora Floyd). The study spans a significant time frame (over sixty
years) to analyse how depictions of the county change. As well as
looking at Braddon s work, it also considers the representations of
Yorkshire by other prominent nineteenth-century writers including
Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and George Eliot amongst
others. Place has an important role in sensation fiction, of which
Braddon was a major exponent, much praised and pilloried by critics
in her time. The domestic setting of many of her novels was one
reason why the genre was so heavily criticised. There are no
studies which look at Braddon s engagement with Yorkshire which is
surprising as Braddon lived in the county for a period, and had her
first novel produced by a Yorkshire publisher. This study aims to
fill the gap in scholarship on this subject and elaborate on
Yorkshire's unique place in 19c English popular fiction.
This work has grown out of a previous study entitled Mary Elizabeth
Braddon and the Jewish Question: A Victorian English Novelist and
the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859-1913, which
focused solely upon Braddon's novels and used them as a lens
through which the changes in the Anglo-Jewish community throughout
her lifetime could be charted within her work. Although the study
examines over seventy of her novels, any understanding of `the
Jewish Question' in relation to Braddon is incomplete without also
considering the portrayal of Jewish people and Jewish customs
within her periodical, Belgravia: A London Magazine (1866-1899).
References to Jews, Judaism or Jewish life in general span the
entire time period of the magazine.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the
representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and
wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve
of World War One. This study considers how Braddon changes her
descriptions across this timeframe and argues that these changes
are reflective of the changing social and economic status of the
Anglo-Jewish population. Braddon's work engages with such broad
themes as conversion to Christianity, the beginnings of the Zionist
movement, as well as the different migrations of Jews to England
from continental Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East among other
considerations. Mrs Braddon was called a "sensation writer" and her
work was widely read and widely influential despite being
considered outre by the more genteel elements of the literary
establishment. The is the first research monograph to look at
Braddon's work dealing with religion and focusing on English
Judaism. The large number of titles and the time period, which was
arguably the most dynamic for the Jewish community in Britain,
provides a unique picture of a popular novelist and a key social
question that attracted the interest of Victorian and Edwardian
readers and literary commentators. This study also provides a new
standpoint from which to view "sensation" fiction, of which Braddon
was a chief exponent, by suggesting how the novels definitely
reflect the changing status and fortune of the Anglo-Jewish
community. During the nineteenth century and even up the present
day some critics have viewed sensation fiction as being ephemeral
and somewhat salacious so the approach Ruth Morris has taken is
markedly different and suggests that Braddon's novels are superb
markers in social history and the development of themes embraced
later by Bennett, Wells and Walpole.
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