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No full textCommunities of violence: persecutions of minorities in the Middle Ages (David Nirenberg, 1996) is reviewed by Karin Almbladh.Haredim yisraeliim. Histalevut belo temiah? (Israelske Haredim. Integration uden assimilation?) (ed. Emmanuel Sivan & Kimmy Caplan, 2003) is reviewed by Hanne Desmetik.Understanding Judaism. Origins. Beliefs. Practices. Holy Texts. Sacred Places (Carl S. Ehrlich, 2004) is reviewed by Hanne Trautner-Kromann.Det lille mirakel. Jødisk bogkunst i tusind år (Ulf Haxe, 2003) is reviewed by Hanne Trautner-Kromann.
Georg Brandes and the Jewish question
No full textGeorg Brandes (1842–1927) was a famous European literary and cultural critic who is one of the most controversial personalities to be found in Danish intellectual life. His position as the leading figure in the so-called modern breakthrough is, of course, beyond dispute. The controversy has been and still is centered around the significance of his efforts. In this connection reference has often been made to his Jewish heritage as something “non-Danish” or “foreign”. To be sure, anti-Semitism at its worst never really acquired a foothold in Denmark, but it did, however, come to play a decisive role in the disqualification of Brandes and in the discrediation of the name he left to posterity. No matter how things were worded, they always had to do with Brandes’ Jewish ancestry. Quite understandably, serious scholarly research, has until recently on the whole avoided this controversial aspect of such an already extremely controversial person. There are obviously things having to do with Brandes’ life and works which cannot be explained unless we take into account his Jewish ancestry, a subject which, quite against his will, became one of the central themes in his life
The Hebrew revolution and the revolution of the Hebrew language between the 1880s and the 1930s
No full textThe new Hebrew culture which began to crystallize in the land of Israel from the end of the last century, is a successful event of “cultural planning”. During a relatively short period of time a little group of “cultural planners” succeeded in creating a system which in a significant way was adapted to the requested Zionist ideology. Eliezer Ben Yehudah immigrated to the land in 1881 and hitched his wagon to the hard work of the renewal of the spoken Hebrew language. The decision to establish Hebrew as a spoken language in the last two decades of the 19th century was not generally agreed upon nor accepted, even by central figures who participated in the creation of the new-old Hebrew language
Striden mellan Iskraanhängarna och Bund vid RSDRP:s andra kongress 1903
No full textThe Bund, which was set up in 1897 and the leading Jewish worker organization in Tsarist Russia, was also a member organization of the Russian Social-Democratic Party (RSDRP) and had played an outstanding role in its foundation in 1898. At the Second Party Congress, which was held in Brussels and London in July-August 1903, strong disagreements between the Party and the Bund in organizational matters resulted in the latter’s dramatic withdrawal from the Party. In the present paper, the author examines those disagreements through a systematic analysis of the Congress debated. An introductory section briefly reviews the situation of the Jews in Tsarist Russia, the growth of the Jewish labour movement, and the strained relations between the Bund and the Party, which from 1900 on was dominated by the Iskraites, i.e. Lenin and his collaborators. This is followed by a record of the debated in abridged form and a short presentation of the most distinguished spokesmen of the opposite camps, notably Julius Martov from the Iskra group and the 23-year-old Mark Liber from the Bund
Mitigating the Risks of Generic Drug Product Development: An Application of Quality by Design (QbD) and Question based Review (QbR) Approaches
Get PDFThis paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing the Quality by Design (QbD) and Question based Review (QbR) approaches in developing solid dosage formulations and manufacturing processes for generic drug products. Formulation and process development of a drug product is a challenge due to the inherent variability associated with the activity. Regulatory bodies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the USA, require the QbD approach in developing formulations and processes for drug products. The QbD approach is described in the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidance Q8 (R2). The regulatory reviewers follow the QbR approach during the review of Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC), which have also adopted some of the elements of the QbD guidance. A systematic application of scientific principles in developing the formulations and processes for generic drug products following the QbD approach is outlined in three main categories. The categories are (A) product understanding, (B) process understanding, and (C) control strategy. The concept of predefined objectives, quality risk management, and CMC considerations along with the prior knowledge are discussed in details. The discussions and explanations provided in this paper are based on sound scientific principles as well as practical experience and approaches applied to resolve product quality and manufacturing issues. Emphasis is given to streamlining the formulations and process development activity to comply with the QbD and QbR principles and to avoid commonly cited deficiencies. The examples are provided as guiding tools for the generic formulation and process development professionals
Art, science, and religion
No full textThe opening words for symposium Art Approaching Science and Religion
Art approaching religion and science
No full textEditorial for the special issue on the theme of art appraoching religion and science
Tracing circulations: the case of the Mercator-Hondius atlas (1613)
No full textThis is the editorial for the special issue of 'Tracing Circulations: The Case of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1613)
[The Greeks] 'called it KOSMOS, which means ornament'
No full textThe title of this article is a statement quoted from a translation of The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 615–630 ad. The article proposes that the content of ornament is primordially derived from the eternal motions found in the macrocosm, a cosmology of ornament that looks beyond the extreme subjectivity that dominated modern art in the late twentieth century. The findings are rooted in the history and major theories of ornament, to be buttressed by examples of ornament-design throughout the ages. Finally, the article reviews the author’s own work in that light.
The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology
No full textThe arena for developing digital technology has undergone an aesthetic turn, broadening the focus from a functionalist approach producing centralized systems in the 1970s and 1980s to an increased awareness of the aesthetic aspects of the individual user’s interaction with technology in the 1990s and 2000s. Within the academic research fields studying digital technology (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design) the aesthetic turn has resulted in a shift from a strong emphasis on user behaviour to an increased interest in aesthetic perspectives on the role of the designer, the design process, and the design material. Within these fields, aesthetics has often been interpreted as belonging to the realm of the individual; personal experiences such as pleasure, engagement, and emotions have been emphasized in both technology development and technology research. Aesthetics is not, however, only an individual phenomenon but also has relational and structural components that need to be acknowledged. Structural aspects of aesthetics condition the possibilities for individuals interacting with digital technology. Thus, the tension between individual and relational aspects of aesthetics in digital technology also reflects a tension between freedom and limitation; between change and permanence; between destabilizing and stabilizing forces.Such a broadened understanding of aesthetics offers a model of digital technology that roughly corresponds to Mark C. Taylor’s definition of religion. Taylor argues that religion is constituted by, on the one hand, a figuring moment characterized by structural stability and universality, and, on the other hand, a disfiguring moment characterized by disruption, particularity, and change. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the aesthetic turn and Taylor’s definition of religion to illustrate similarities between the two, suggesting possible religious dimensions of digital technology and how that can inform our understanding of people’s interaction with digital technology.