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Fairy Tales in Service of Political Projects: “Hansel and Gretel” in Changing Political Regimes
Get PDFThe production of fairy tales depends on political interests. The tales’ regimes of production and anticipated reception condition their inscribed ideological inclinations and erasures. I examine how Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the brothers Grimm contributed to nation-building and, focusing on “Hansel and Gretel,” how the changing regimes of production required omissions in the translations of the Grimms’ tales into Slovenian. I argue that the sui generis appropriation of the tale titled “Janko and Metka” by the writer France Bevk helped build a socialist nation. Finally, the article comments on some issues in capitalist regimes of fairy-tale production
Why Were There No Jokes After the 2021 Meron Crowd Crush? On Israeli “Joking Relationships”
Get PDFThe vast research literature on disaster jokes demonstrates that no calamity is too horrific to be followed by jokes that typically recontextualize traumatic events and channel the threatening voices that these events provoke. Why, then, did no jokes circulate after the deadliest civil disaster in Israel’s history, which occurred on Mount Meron during the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations in April 2021? Drawing upon the ethnographic concept of “joking relationships,” this essay documents representations of ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in contemporary Israeli memes and explains the restraint that Israeli society shows toward this group with whom the Meron disaster is associated. The absence of jokes is employed here as a prism through which one can gain insight not only into prevalent Israeli beliefs, emotions, and perceptions but also into the function of jokes in delineating internal social boundaries
(Candle)sticks on Stone: The Representation of Women in Jewish Tombstone Art
Get PDFCandles and candlesticks are a common and potent symbol on the gravestones of Jewish women because lighting the Sabbath candles is one of the three so-called “women’s commandments” carried out by female Jews; it is the only one easily represented in visual terms. This essay describes the author’s field research, photographic, and writing project, “(Candlesticks) on Stone,” carried out mainly in 2009–2011, to explore the variety of ways candles and candlesticks are depicted on women’s gravestones in Eastern Europe. It also questions the transmission of the candle-lighting tradition from her East European ancestors to later generations
“Feeling Thought”: Exploring the Materiality of the Mind in A. S. Byatt’s Fairy Tales
No full textThrough the analysis of “Cold” (1998), “A Stone Woman” (2003), and “The People in the House in the House” (2009), the article explores how A. S. Byatt uses the fairy-tale genre’s familiarity with the marvelous to make the interdependence of body and mind more visible, by featuring impossible creatures, fantastic metamorphoses, and clashes between scales. In her fairy tales, Byatt’s reflection on the embodied mind intersects with her interest in materiality with quite unique results compared to her realist fiction. Using the idea of “feeling thought” as fil rouge, the article traces a connection between the materiality of represented bodies and minds and the metafictional awareness of the materiality of stories themselves as composed of reused motifs and strategies
Heroism, Silence, and Erasure: Jewish Children in Holocaust Cinema
No full textThe stories of the many Jewish youngsters who actively resisted Germany and its collaborators are virtually absent in Holocaust cinematic representations of children. Such erasures stem from two main sources. First, political efforts to discount Jewish heroism in the Holocaust, and second, such representations are increasingly considered incompatible with culturally acceptable notions of youth that privilege narratives of childhood innocence and vulnerability. Numerous feature films, shorts, and documentaries employ the theme of silence to describe suffering and/or murder of victims, persistence of post-Holocaust trauma, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and coverup and suppression of atrocities and crimes. But the silences addressed in this article are not those surrounding the murdered victims, they are rather the silences surrounding Jewish resistance, especially by child resisters. The omissions and distortions of the Jewish contribution to Holocaust resistance seem to violate the most minimal standards of representation. Because of the popularity of historical films, the erasure of a Jewish child’s identity can have an outsized effect on audiences’ understanding of the Holocaust. Because of their mass appeal, films become almost a consensual version of history itself. Further, the false inventions discussed in this paper exacerbate this phenomenon specifically by erasing the contributions and perils of Jewish children during World War II. In a world where the very existence of the Holocaust is sometimes called into question, the importance of these erasures cannot be understated
Seeing is Believing? Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust Through Film
No full textIn this essay, I explore the role of visual media in creating the history of events and focus on my personal experiences of teaching Holocaust through film in Israel for over three decades. I explore my choice of films, discuss various difficulties that are encountered when using film in the classroom, and explain the use of film in the intergenerational transference of trauma. I end my essay with a number of concluding thoughts and suggestions to those using films in their classroom to teach about the Holocaust
The use of chewing gum to alleviate thirst in CHF patients requiring fluid restrictions and oral diuretics
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Allida SM, Shehab S, Inglis SC, Davidson PM, Hayward CS, Newton PJ. A RandomisEd ControLled TrIal of ChEwing Gum to RelieVE Thirst in Chronic Heart Failure (RELIEVE-CHF). Heart Lung Circ. 2021;30(4):516-524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2020.09.004
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Breast cancer screening in transgender women with high-risk family history
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de Blok CJM, Wiepjes CM, Nota NM, et al. Breast cancer risk in transgender people receiving hormone treatment: nationwide cohort study in the Netherlands. BMJ. 2019;365:l1652. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1652
for a transgender woman with family history of breast cancer