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Roberta Jaffe, Founding Director, Life Lab Science Program, Co-Founder of Community Agroecology Network
No full textRoberta (Robbie) Jaffe grew up in New York in the 1950s, and moved to Florida when she was sixteen. She attended the University of Florida and University of South Florida, and graduated with a degree in sociology. During and after college she was deeply involved in the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement as a field organizer and boycott organizer for the state of Florida. Jaffe first came to the Santa Cruz area with her then-husband, Jerry Kay, who was also active in the sustainable agriculture movement. They farmed ten acres near Elkhorn Slough, and in 1976, Jaffe helped start the first farmers’ market in Santa Cruz County, at Live Oak School.After that marriage ended, Jaffe studied horticulture at Cabrillo College with Richard Merrill, and took a position with a CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) program called Project Blossom. As part of that program, she co-founded a school garden at Green Acres School in Live Oak, a semi-rural area near Santa Cruz, California. This was the genesis of the Life Lab Science Program, which grew into a groundbreaking nonprofit organization that works with schools throughout the United States to develop school gardens and curriculum for teaching science and nutrition. Jaffe served as founding executive director of the program for many years.Jaffe earned a second master’s degree in education from UC Santa Cruz, with an emphasis in agroecology. She met and married Steve Gliessman (also the subject of an oral history in this series). In 2001, they co-founded the Community Agroecology Network (CAN). CAN defines its goals as, “to help a network of rural, primarily coffee-growing communities in Mexico and Central America develop self-sufficiency and sustainable growing practices, and direct market coffee to consumers in the United States.”Jaffe is the co-author of “From Differentiated Coffee Markets Towards Alternative Trade and Knowledge Networks,” in Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Sustaining Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America, and many Life Lab publications, including The Growing Classroom.Ellen Farmer interviewed Robbie Jaffe on May 5, 2007, at Jaffe's house in Santa Cruz, California. Farmer’s MA thesis (in public policy) at California State University at Monterey Bay focused on the coffee crisis. As a graduate student, she worked with Jaffe at CAN, and brought her knowledge of the economics and politics of coffee growing in Latin America to the interview
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (jaffe)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3789/thumbnail.jp
“The More We Can Try to Open Them Up, the Better It Will Be for Their Integration”: Integration and the Coercive Assimilation of Muslim Youth
No full textCapitalizing on national anxieties, right wing populist leaders promise to enforce national borders with new constellations of policies that regulate and exclude Muslim bodies. Using the theoretical tool of “technologies of concern” (Jaffe-Walter, 2016), this essay critiques how state security discourses operate through public schools. Drawing on ethnographic research with Muslim youth in a Danish public school and an analysis of European integration policies, the author analyzes how policies and practices that ostensibly support young people’s integration enact everyday violence and coercive assimilation. Highlighting the perspectives of the young people she worked with, the author argues that state efforts to transform Muslim students into acceptable subjects of the nation-state encouraged their alienation and marginalization
Forming fat identities
No full textUsing data from a large national sample and 40 in-depth qualitative interviews, I explore how fat identities are formed. To understand this process, I argue one must deconstruct it into both the tangible trait around which the identity is formed (overweight) and the social meaning this trait symbolizes (fat). I conceptualize a fat identity as learned, trying, and all encompassing. It is learned via exposure to messages about weight, trying because of the physical and social challenges being overweight poses, and all encompassing because it permeates all experiences. Based upon these three criteria, I argue that fat identities exist on a sliding continuum.
I found many factors to define the length of one's climb to the fat threshold. This threshold designates the point at which fatness becomes an integral part of one's self concept. Present and past physical weight helps determine one's initial placement on the continuum. However, race and gender help to determine where on the continuum the threshold is placed.
Moreover, I found the physical and social changes that come with aging play an important role in one's slide up and down the fat continuum. Older people are more likely to be concerned about health conditions; younger people are more concerned about the visible and social aspects of being fat. Finally, although I did not find evidence to support my hypothesis that discrimination forms fat identities, I did find that experiencing discrimination strengthens fat identities.
I conclude by calling for future research that follows the model put forth here. By looking at identities as an interaction between a physical trait and a social identity, researchers will be better equipped to understand identity formation, and how to alleviate the hardships involved with possessing a stigmatized identity. I conclude with suggestions for educating the public about the health implications of obesity while decreasing the stigma surrounding fat. I suggest using culturally sensitive plans designed around the specific needs of the diverse demographic of which the United States is comprised.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203)
This Just In piece reporting that author Sarah Braunstein, a new resident of P
No full textThis Just In piece reporting that author Sarah Braunstein, a new resident of Portland, has been awarded a $25,000 writer\u27s award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Braunstein, will use the award to pay for part-time childcare and studio space that will give her more time to write. She is working on her first novel
Sussurrando contra o esquecimento : análise da preservação da memória em O que ela sussurra (2020), de Noemi Jaffe
No full textOrientador: Prof. Dr. Weslei Roberto Candido.Dissertação (mestrado em Letras) - Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 2022A presente dissertação tem por objetivo realizar uma pesquisa bibliográfica que propõe a análise da obra O que ela sussurra (2020), com base na teoria memorialística. O romance, escrito por Noemi Jaffe, resgata a história de Nadejda Mandelstam, esposa do poeta russo Óssip Mandelstam, que, por meio de sua memória, pôde salvar mais de trezentos poemas de seu marido do apagamento stalinista. Apesar de ser uma obra de literatura brasileira contemporânea, O que ela sussurra (2020) apresenta uma narrativa cujo contexto é a Rússia stalinista. Defende-se que a narradora utilizou sua memória como uma estratégia de resistência ao governo de Stálin, assegurando que as obras de Mandelstam sobrevivessem à violência do governo. Além disso, ressalta-se como o trabalho memorialístico de Nadejda foi tão, ou mais, importante que o próprio ofício de Óssip na composição dos poemas, uma vez que foi somente devido à sua memória que suas poesias sobreviveram, o que a torna, também, autora dessas poesias do passado. Esta pesquisa encontra-se dividida em três capítulos que apresentam um percurso que parte da explicação dos conceitos memorialísticos, passa por certos aspectos da história nacional russa e apresenta, por fim, a análise do texto narrativo de Noemi Jaffe (2020). Para esse intento, foram reunidas teorias sobre memória e sobre a História russa, que auxiliaram na fundamentação dos argumentos de análise da narrativa. Assim, materiais de cunho sociológico que versam sobre memória, como as obras de Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Michael Pollak (1989; 1992), Aleida Assmann (2011), Jacques Le Goff (2013), bem como materiais sobre o período stalinista russo e sobre estratégias de silenciamento, fizeram parte do referencial teórico. Portanto, a narradora de Noemi Jaffe (2020), em O que ela sussurra, foi capaz de utilizar sua memória para fazer os poemas de seu companheiro sobreviverem.The present dissertation aims to carry out a bibliographic research that proposes the analysis of the work O que ela sussurra (2020), based on memorialist theory. The novel, written by Noemi Jaffe, rescues the story of Nadejda Mandelstam, the wife of the Russian poet Ossip Mandelstam, who, through her memory, was able to save more than three hundred poems by her husband from the Stalinist erasure. Despite being a work of contemporary Brazilian literature, O que ela sussurra (2020) presents a narrative whose context is the Stalinist Russia. It is argued that the narrator used her memory as a strategy of resistance against Stalin's government, ensuring that Mandelstam's works survived the government's violence. In addition, it is emphasized how Nadejda's memorialistic work was so important, if not more, than Osip's own craft in the composition of the poems, since it was only due to her memory that his poetry survived, which makes her also the author of these poems of the past. This research is divided into three chapters that present a path that starts with the explanation of memorial concepts, passes through certain aspects of the Russian national History, and finally presents the analysis of the narrative text by Noemi Jaffe (2020). For this purpose, theories about memory and about the Russian History were gathered to help to support the arguments of narrative analysis. Thus, sociological materials that deal with memory, such as the works of Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Michael Pollak (1989; 1992), Aleida Assmann (2011), Jacques Le Goff (2013), as well as materials on the Russian Stalinist period and on silencing strategies were part of the theoretical framework. Therefore, the narrator of Noemi Jaffe (2020), in O que ela sussurra, was able to use her memory to make her companion's poems survive.132 f
Cross-ethnic mediums and the autobiographical gesture in twentieth century American literature
No full textOne of the most definitive aspects of twentieth century literary studies has been the move to group fiction by ethnic minorities into separate categories according to the authors' ethnicities. Among these categories, "African American literature" and "American Jewish literature" have emerged as two of the most prevalent. This study suggests that African American authors and American Jewish authors have resisted the confines of ethnic categorization by imagining themselves as each other and by using each other's cultural property within their writing. Previous scholarship on the literary relationship between African Americans and American Jews tends to position the two groups in conflict, but the subjects of this study--Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Fran Ross, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth--employ cross-ethnic mediums in pursuit of a common goal: to be considered as American individuals without the boundaries of their ethnic identities. The literary tactic that indicates each subject's struggle with the boundaries of their own ethnic identities is the autobiographical gesture--the artful use of one's own experiences. In each subject's use of the autobiographical gesture, the self as other serves as a means to work against the bounds of ethnic identity.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169)
Неизвестное письмо Евсея Шора Лейбу Яффе
No full textThis article is dedicated to the outstanding figure of Russian-Jewish culture, poet, translator, publisher, and prominent Zionist, Leib Jaffe. The author\u27s main focus is on an unpublished letter from thehistorian of philosophy and culture, translator, and musicologist, Yevsey Shor, to Leib Jaffe. Jaffe and Shor most likely met in Russia, but their closer relationship developed after both repatriated to Palestine: Jaffe in 1920 and Shor in the late 1934. Shor\u27s letter, dated to the first half of the 1940s, addresses the pressing issue of the spiritual tasks and prospects for the development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The letter primarily reflects questions about the cultural shaping of the Israeli state before its official establishment.Artykuł poświęcony jest wybitnej postaci rosyjsko-żydowskiej kultury, poecie, tłumaczowi, wydawcy i prominentowi syjonistycznemu, Leibowi Jaffe. Głównym przedmiotem zainteresowania autora jest niepublikowany list historyka filozofii i kultury, tłumacza oraz muzykologa, Jewsieja Shora, do Leiba Jaffe. Jaffe i Shor najprawdopodobniej poznali się w Rosji, ale ich bliższa relacja rozwinęła się po repatriacji obu do Palestyny: Jaffe w 1920 roku, a Shora pod koniec 1934 roku. List Shora, datowany na pierwszą połowę lat czterdziestych, porusza palący problem zadań duchowych i perspektyw rozwoju Uniwersytetu Hebrajskiego w Jerozolimie. List przede wszystkim odzwierciedla zagadnienia dotyczące kulturalnego kształtowania się państwa izraelskiego przed jego oficjalnym powstaniem.This article is dedicated to the outstanding figure of Russian-Jewish culture, poet, translator, publisher, and prominent Zionist, Leib Jaffe. The author\u27s main focus is on an unpublished letter from thehistorian of philosophy and culture, translator, and musicologist, Yevsey Shor, to Leib Jaffe. Jaffe and Shor most likely met in Russia, but their closer relationship developed after both repatriated to Palestine: Jaffe in 1920 and Shor in the late 1934. Shor\u27s letter, dated to the first half of the 1940s, addresses the pressing issue of the spiritual tasks and prospects for the development of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The letter primarily reflects questions about the cultural shaping of the Israeli state before its official establishment
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
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