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AHC interview with Randolph Rogers
No full textRandolph Rogers referred to pictures in his memoires during the interview. He did not speak while perusing them, but periods of silence were not removed from the interview’s recording.January 6, 2011Randolph Rogers was born 1920 as Rudolf Rosenthal. He grew up in Vienna where he lived until his emigration. After receiving agricultural training by the Zionist Organization Hechalutz in Schwadorf in the winter of 1938/1939, Mr. Rogers left Austria in 1939 for England, where he was admitted as an agricultural laborer. He was subsequently interned as enemy alien until December 1941. Randolph Rogers joined the British Army and took part among other operations in D-Day. He was taken prisoner by German troops. In 1950, he immigrated to the US on the urge of relatives. He studied at Pratt Institute and became an optician, ultimately running his own practice in Bergenfield, NJ.Austrian Heritage CollectionMoosburg camp, Atomic bom
AHC Interview with Julie Schachter
No full textThe interview was conducted in Lakewood, NJ in the presence of Julie Schachter’s husband, David Schachter (AHC 1905), as well as her son and her stepdaughter.Julie Schachter, née Korn was born on December 25, 1925 in Deutschkreutz, Burgenland, Austria. She grew up in an orthodox family and held on to Jewish orthodoxy throughout her life. Julie Korn left Vienna on a Kindertransport to London. Her mother immigrated to the USA in 1940, but her father was deported to Poland where he died. In England, Julie Korn lived in Nottingham and then in Manchester with a German-Jewish woman who did not respect her orthodox lifestyle. Julie Korn came to New York on February 18, 1944 and started working as seamstress, initially in the business of a cousin. In 1951 she Married David Schachter; they lived in Brooklyn; Monsey, NY; and Lakewood, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with David Schachter
No full textThe interview was conducted in Lakewood, NJ in the presence of David Schachter’s wife, Julie Schachter (AHC 4148), and their son, Nathan.March 7, 2011David Schachter was born as David Schaechter on December 13, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. He lived in Vienna’s 17th District, Hernals, where he went to school. In the early 1930s he left Vienna to study in Yeshivas in Slovakia and Poland (Krakow and Lublin). After the Anschluss he did not return to Vienna, but left for Tel Aviv, where he also attended a Yeshiva. He immigrated to New York in 1946 and started working without practical education, but ended up as manager. He married Julie Korn (AHC 4148), and they subsequently lived in Monsey, NY and in Lakewood, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
AHC interview with Margaret Kohlhagen
No full textIn addition to Margaret Kohlhagen’s interview, there is another one with her grandson, Justin Kohlhagen.See also the memoirs of Otto Friedmann, Margaret Kohlhagen’s father, with the call number ME 898.Margaret Kohlhagen was born on September 14, 1930 as Margarete Friedmann in Salzburg, Austria, where she and her older brother grew up in an assimilated Jewish family in the Neustadt District (Haunspergstrasse). They left Austria right after "Kristallnacht" in November 1938 for Switzerland, France (Besançon, Perpignan, Marseille), Spain, and Portugal, arriving in the United States in July 1941. Margarete did not understand the political circumstances at the time, experiencing these three years as an extended vacation trip. In New York, she went to high school in Queens and acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in early childhood education from Queens College. In the United States, Margaret Kohlhagen turned to orthodox Judaism, which resulted in conflicts with her assimilated parents. In 1993, she revisited Salzburg upon an official invitation of former Jewish inhabitants to the city
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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