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Digital Holocaust Memory from the Margins: Practices, Places, and Narratives
No full textIn recent years, the “digital” is redefining Holocaust memory by facilitating the co-production of memory by a wide spectrum of new agents. While digital culture opens new horizons, it also poses new challenges for Holocaust memory, education, and commemoration. This introduction to the special section “Digital Holocaust Memory from the Margins” provides a short review of the papers included in this section and a theoretical anchor for reconsidering the memory of the Holocaust from the margins—from the Global South, from digital platforms that are not considered “proper places,” and from discourses and technologies into which the memory of the Holocaust has migrated. These, we argue, can shed new light on the relationship between digital media and memory of the Holocaust
On Reingold’s Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels
No full textGender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels. By Matt Reingold. London: Routledge, 2022. 116 pp., ISBN 978-0367713515 (hc) 20.65
Enchanting Images: Magic Mirrors and Moving Portraits in French Fairy Tales
No full textThis article considers the role of mirrors and portraits in several fairy tales by Charles Perrault, Henriette-Julie de Murat, Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier, and especially Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy. I examine how these objects, made magical, exert agency in the tales. The depicted image begins to hold power over its subject. Other scholars have seen in the blurred distinction between representation and reality an invitation to critical reflection; here, I show how mirrors and portraits also fuel narrative innovation by troubling the reader’s sense of diegetic reality as the objects assert control over characters—and the plot
The Besht as Ba’al Shem: Magic in the Life and Legacy of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov
Get PDFIsrael Ba’al Shem Tov (the Besht), the purported founder of the Hasidic movement, achieved renown during his lifetime as a holy man and a ba’al shem—a magician and folk healer. This paper surveys the sources containing evidence pertaining to the Besht’s medico-magical activities, presents the variety of recipes and rituals that have been preserved in his name, and explores the implications these hold for understanding his life and legacy. It further argues that the centrality of magic we find in the life of the Besht did not disappear with his death but was maintained within the Hasidic movement that developed in his wake
Analysis of Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup E-M81 Sublineages in Portuguese Samples
No full textThe human Y-chromosome haplogroup E-M81 is predominant in northwestern Africa and almost absent elsewhere, except for the Iberian Peninsula. In the present study, we investigated the internal branches of E-M81 (E1b1b1b1a) in 29 unrelated men from mainland Portugal. All individuals sampled carried the derived allele for the marker M183 (E1b1b1b1a1), and all but two had the derived allele for the marker SM001. Eleven individuals carried the derived allele for the marker Z5009 (E1b1b1b1a1c), and 16 were assigned to the paragroup E-SM001*(xZ5009, PF6794, CTS12227, M165, M5043). Median-joining networks based on seven Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, and DYS393) showed 14 different haplotypes, revealing a clear star-like structure, with the common central haplotype distributed by the three different subclades identified (M183*, SM001*, and Z5009) encompassing the typical Maghrebin core haplotype in northern African populations. The relatively high frequency of the E-M81 lineage in mainland Portugal supports a North African Y-chromosomal contribution that may have occurred during the Islamic period in the country
Introduction to the Special Issue: Literary Fairy Tales and the Embodied Mind
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The Art Of Re-Presenting : Power And Agency For Black Women Amid Trauma, Oppression And Everyday Life
Get PDFIn this thesis, the work and lives of seven Black American women artists who created artwork in the twentieth century are explored to discover how they have used their work to represent Black women in America. Using four critical concepts: Double Consciousness, First, Second, and Third Wave Feminism, Black Feminist Thought, and Intersectionality, several critical questions are answered in order to discover the historical and social context in which they worked and how this affected their ability to reflect the lives, struggles, hopes, and identities of themselves and other Black women. Using the word re-presenting as a signifier of how Black women have been previously represented by the dominant society, it is determined that these women chose to re-present themselves differently than those with no personal knowledge of their lives or experiences. The artists used for this analysis are Carrie Mae Weems, Meta Warrick Fuller, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Emma Amos, Betye Saar, and Kara Walker
Unemployment And Mortality: A Panel Study Of American States, 2008-2019
No full textThis dissertation examines the relationship between unemployment and mortality rate using panel data from American states. Deaths of despair refer to the rise in mortality rate caused by suicide, alcohol-related deaths, and drug overdose deaths during economic recovery. In the first study, we analyzed the correlation between unemployment and deaths of despair at the state level from 2008 to 2019 by using fixed-effect regression. To conduct this study, we gathered data on deaths of despair from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). We hypothesized that there is a significant correlation between unemployment and mortality due to suicide, alcohol-related deaths, and drug overdose deaths. The findings show that an increase in unemployment leads to a rise in alcohol-related deaths by approximately 10.1%. However, there is no significant connection between unemployment and either suicide or drug overdose deaths when the state-year fixed effect is taken into account. Therefore, unemployment cannot be a significant contributor to drug overdose deaths and suicide. In the second study, we focused on the county level between the years 2010 and 2019 to explore the correlation between the unemployment rate and total mortality. Our data on total mortality was obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We analyze panel data on population distribution by counties in the United States, encompassing a variety of age groups. The main finding is that after state-year fixed effect regression was applied, there was no significant correlation between unemployment and total mortality. Moreover, by using sub-samples of our data, we found a positive and statistically significant correlation between unemployment and total mortality at low drinking levels, whereas we found a negative and statistically significant correlation between unemployment and total mortality at high drinking levels. On the other hand, we found the unemployment rate has an insignificant correlation with total mortality at levels of low obesity, high obesity, low smoking, and high smoking. Therefore, the study concluded that unemployment had no significant correlation with total mortality
Journalistic Practices And Rituals Influence On Negative Affect And Hostile Media Effect
No full textThis study examines the role journalistic practices and story balance contribute to higher levels of Hostile Media Effect and Negative Affect. The 2x3 factorial designed experiment provided 478 participants with one of six treatments. Each participant read three news stories and then measures of HME and negative affect were gathered. Half of the participants read stories with the political titles of Republican and Democrat to determine if the words served as a “hot contagion” and amplified HME. The results were not significant. Additionally, in the treatments, stories were created to have either a balanced story, a left-leaning bias, or a right-leaning bias. Participants did not display a statistically significant difference in HME levels. This dissertation did show that issue involvement and partisanship were significant predictors of Negative Affect, and Negative Affect mediated political identifiers effect on HME