881 research outputs found
Migration and Culture in London’s East End: 1800 to the Present
No full textAbstract: This podcast records the proceedings of the town-style meeting Migration and Culture in London's East End, 1800 to the Present, which was organised by Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman at Rich Mix Arts Centre in January 2014. The event explored the complex stories of migration to London’s East End from the 1800s to the present. It focused on the social perception of these newcomers by both established members of their perceived community, as well as their responses to stigma and their creation of the cosmopolitan setting that is today’s East End. The event, which formed part of Gelbin and Gilman's AHRC-funded project Cosmopolitanism and the Jews, brought into dialogue lay audiences with practitioners in academe, education and the arts. Contents: PROGRAMME Dr Cathy S. Gelbin (Manchester), Introduction Prof. Sander L. Gilman (Emory), Migration and Culture in the East End — Why the East End? Rachel Lichtenstein, Writer and artist (London), The Dutch Jewish community of Sandys Row Synagogue Munsur Ali, Producer, writer and director (London), Mass Migration: A Cause by the End Days of the Empire Jane Earl, Director, Rich Mix Director (London), Building a Multi-Cultural Arts Audience in the East End Ruth Novaczek, Artist and filmmaker (London), Rootless Cosmopolitan
Towards the global shtetl: Golem texts in the new millennium
No full textThis article explores the post-1990s formation of a global paradigm of popular Jewish culture by European, Israeli and American authors. The author argues that golem texts show both how Jews themselves function as a metaphor for globalisation, an image with frequent anti-Semitic connotations, and for the ways in which contemporary Jewishness is currently being positively reconfigured in terms of post-modern playfulness. In the films and literary texts by directors and authors such as Amos Gitai, Marge Piercy, Ellen Galford and Michael Chabon, this article shows the golem symbolises contemporary Jewish self-constructions beyond the national and racialised delineations of the past. © 2011 Taylor & Francis
Interview with Cathy Ulrich
Full text linkThis spring, the students in UND’s ENGL 414 workshop (The Art of Writing Fiction) read a collection of micro and flash fictions titled Ghosts of You, by Cathy Ulrich. With its use of second person and a penchant for turning tropes of crime fiction on their heads, this book is a must read. Three ENGL 414 students had the opportunity to interview the author via email to discuss Cathy Ulrich’s intentions in Ghosts of You, as well as her own personal writing techniques. To borrow from how each story in Ghosts of You begins, “The thing about being the [interviewer] is you set the plot in motion.” Floodwal
History of Education in Manatee County
No full textLocal historian and author, Cathy Slusser, discusses the history of early education in Manatee County
Outer Cover : Dedicated to Cathy
No full textThe cover states that the design was dedicated to the American girl "Cathy" who had showed the author "Where It's At".The cartoon serves as a vinyl cover which includes all the artists part of the release. There is no clear indication of a title although a list of songs and musicians have been included
Migrant Health: A Key Issue For Global Health - 25 May 2011
No full textLONDON - Good health care for the one billion migrants around the world is vital if global health for all is to be achieved and maintained, according to Cathy Zimmerman of the Gender Violence and Health Centre at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - author of the first article in a series devoted to Migration And Health in the medical journal: PLoS Medicine, for which she is one of the editors
AufBrüche:Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen in Deutschland
No full textThis interdisciplinary anthology is regarded by US and German critics as an essential source text on minoritised women in the German-speaking context. Based on a 1997 conference in Cologne that I co-organised to bring together Jewish, Black and migrant activists, scholars and artists, the volume traces minoritised women's cultural legacies in pre- and post-unification Germany. It addresses questions such as the possibilities of coalition politics, and of translating political activism into scholarship and visa versa
Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities
Full text linkThis article examines the impact of the Stalinist persecutions of Jews as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ on the Jewish involvement with leftist ideas. In inter-war Germany and Austria, Jewish intellectuals played a disproportionate role in promoting both cosmopolitanist and leftist ideals. While belonging mostly to the bourgeois spectrum, many harboured close sympathies with the young Soviet Union, whose imperative of Communist internationalism seemed to chime closely with their own cosmopolitanist sentiments. This dream was shattered in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and 1950s in particular, when Jews were persecuted as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’. The author studies the novels by three German-speaking Jewish writers, Alice Rühle-Gerstel’s The Break, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and Manès Sperber’s Like a Tear in the Ocean, which were written in close proximity to the Stalinist crimes. She argues that these novels offer a unique insight into the seemingly impossible schism that leftist Jews faced in confronting the Stalinist crimes. In doing so, these novels enable us to trace the Jewish leftist predicament that both sustained the socialist–Communist project and ultimately called for its critical interrogation
Die uralte moderne Lösung: Nation, space and modernity in Austro-German zionism before 1917
Full text linkZionism represents a turning point in the rise of the nation-state to its present near-ubiquity, a national movement which did not construct an identity concurrently with its embrace of nationalism, but reconstructed a diaspora to fit it. I explore how early Political Zionists, particularly Theodor Herzl, perceived both the push and pull of nationalism, and why they were drawn to adopt an ideology and political structure whose basic principles, I argue, were intrinsically hostile to Jews. I begin by examining the socialist Moses Hess as a forerunner and microcosm of later Zionism, arguing his work is underpinned by anxiety about social heterogeneity. The second chapter focuses on portrayals of diaspora, its contradictions and the ambivalence they caused towards less assimilated Jews, nonetheless used as models for national identity. I continue by investigating the countries Herzl looked to as partners on the world stage and models of nationhood, arguing his vision of nationhood was far broader than that of most nationalists and involved a recognised role among other nations. The fourth chapter concerns understandings of 'homeland' and the relationship between people and territory, concluding Zionism’s effect is achieved, not just by inhabiting Palestine, but by public desire and effort to do so. I devote my final chapter to concepts of modernity, its perception as both paradoxical and inescapable, and how national historical narratives arrange history into a rational, linear structure. While Zionists left many presumptions of nationalism and modernity unchallenged, most importantly that both nation and state transcend political divides, my conclusion stresses those presumptions they accepted, those aspects they saw as inescapable, and those they pragmatically performed belief in, to achieve Gentile acceptance of Jewish nationhood. I surmise that it was this sense of inevitability, along with the difficulties of diaspora, which gave Jews reason to make displays of accepting the nation-state
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