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    Telegram from Irving Flicker, with response from Eliahu Epstein, regarding the Israeli Government

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    Jersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. Mayor Irving Flicker sent a telegram to the Jewish Agency for Palenstine, to congratulate the Israeli government on its recent independence, and on the recognition by the United States of Israel as an independent country. Eliahu Epstein, Representative of the Provincial Government of Israel, sent a reply telegram to Flicker, thanking him for his message and sending his regards to the Roosevelt Community. As a predominantly Jewish community, the establishment of Israel as an independent state was a significant event that connected Jersey Homestead citizens to the global Jewish community

    de Sitter symmetry of Neveu-Schwarz spinors

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    Abstract: We study the relations between Dirac fields living on the 2-dimensional Lorentzian cylinder and the ones living on the double-covering of the 2-dimensional de Sitter manifold, here identified as a certain coset space of the group SL(2, R). We show that there is an extended notion of de Sitter covariance only for Dirac fields having the Neveu-Schwarz anti-periodicity and construct the relevant cocycle. Finally, we show that the de Sitter symmetry is naturally inherited by the Neveu-Schwarz massless Dirac field on the cylinder

    The influence of African sculpture on British art, 1910-1930

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    This thesis aims to discuss the influence of African wood sculpture on British art from 1910 to 1930. It proposes that the works, tastes and pronouncements of various 20th century British artists betray this influence and that although the British artists did not initially understand the conceptual foundations of African sculpture their limited knowledge was just sufficient for the modernization of British art through the adaptation of the formal qualities of African art. In assessing the validity of these propositions the thesis examines the factors and issues that facilitated the influence. Chapter 1 discusses the formal qualities of African wood sculpture that attracted the British artists. It outlines the unusual figural proportions, the free and direct use of planar, linear and solid geometry, the treatment of material and its surfaces. The conceptual foundations of African sculpture are generally outlined in Chapter 2. The extent to which the British artists understood these foundations is also discussed. Chapter 3 concerns the introduction of African sculpture to Britain and discusses the development of the anthropological and subsequent aesthetic interest that it aroused. Both the Post-Impressionist Exhibitions and the Omega Workshops which facilitated its influence are examined. Chapter 4 examines the concept and attempts to categorize the nature of this influence. The last three chapters act as case studies in which the impact of African sculpture on Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore is examined. The conclusion discusses the term 'Primitive' and the British artists and the 'Primitive

    de Sitter Tachyons and Related Topics

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    We present a complete study of a family of tachyonic scalar fields living on the de Sitter universe. We show that for an infinite set of discrete values of the negative squared mass, the fields exhibit a gauge symmetry and there exists for them a fully acceptable local and covariant quantization similar to the Feynman–Gupta–Bleuler quantization of free QED. For general negative squares masses we also construct positive quantization where the de Sitter symmetry is spontaneously broken. We discuss the sense in which the two quantizations may be considered physically inequivalent even when there is a Lorentz invariant subspace in the second one

    Mr R. C. Epstein, The automobile industry. Its economic and commercial development

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    Baulig Henri. Mr R. C. Epstein, The automobile industry. Its economic and commercial development. In: Annales d'histoire économique et sociale. 2ᵉ année, N. 6, 1930. pp. 312-313

    [Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - November 20, 1930]

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    Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Meyer Bodansky suggesting that he read a critique an author wrote on his textbook

    Epstein\u27s Premises

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    This Article criticizes Richard Epstein\u27s argument that Congress should repeal Title VII expressed in his book Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination. The author\u27s criticisms of Epstein\u27s argument are the product of disagreement with some of Epstein\u27s premises, and disagreement with some of Epstein\u27s choices about where to stop his analyses. The author disputes Epstein\u27s premise that governmental intervention into otherwise accessible markets is justifiable only in cases of force or fraud. The author also notes some of Epstein\u27s empirical suppositions that are inconsistent with one another
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