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Israel (Rachel Cohen) and Levy (Lucy) interview
No full textA summary of the life of Mrs. Dora Cohen preceeds the transcript.
This interview of Rachel Cohen Israel and Lucy Levy concerns Dora Levy Cohen, the first Sephardic woman to come to Seattle (in 1906). Other subjects discussed include the Young Hebrews Literary Club, Sephardic community plays at Washington Hall, and description of Sephardic life in Seattle.
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Gender, war and militarism: making and questioning the links
No full textThe gender dynamics of militarism have traditionally been seen as straightforward, given the cultural mythologies of warfare and the disciplining of ‘masculinity’ that occurs in the training and use of men's capacity for violence in the armed services. However, women's relation to both war and peace has been varied and complex. It is women who have often been most prominent in working for peace, although there are no necessary links between women and opposition to militarism. In addition, more women than ever are serving in many of today's armies, with feminists rather uncertain on how to relate to this phenomenon. In this article, I explore some of the complexities of applying gender analyses to militarism and peace work in sites of conflict today, looking most closely at the Israeli feminist group, New Profile, and their insistence upon the costs of the militarized nature of Israeli society. They expose the very permeable boundaries between the military and civil society, as violence seeps into the fears and practices of everyday life in Israel. I place their work in the context of broader feminist analysis offered by researchers such as Cynthia Enloe and Cynthia Cockburn, who have for decades been writing about the ‘masculinist’ postures and practices of warfare, as well as the situation of women caught up in them. Finally, I suggest that rethinking the gendered nature of warfare must also encompass the costs of war to men, whose fundamental vulnerability to psychological abuse and physical injury is often downplayed, whether in mainstream accounts of warfare or in more specific gender analysis. Feminists need to pay careful attention to masculinity and its fragmentations in addressing the topic of gender, war and militarism
Remembering the Future: Francophone Perspectives on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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REMEMBERING THE FUTURE: FRANCOPHONE PERSPECTIVES
ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
RACHEL NISSELSON
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
This dissertation takes as its focus the role of memory in the representation of the Israel-Palestine conflict within Francophone literature. The prevailing narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians emphasize memories of past suffering in order to encourage empathy—and moral and military support—from an international audience, as well as antagonism for the other. These monolithic narratives often propagate stereotypical articulations of the identity of the other: the Israeli as occupier and the Palestinian as terrorist. The works of Francophone authors Slimane Benaïssa, Hubert Haddad, Edmond El Maleh, and Elias Sanbar, however, challenge these flattened depictions, highlighting hybrid identities and counter-narratives. In addition to promoting a re-imagination of the actors in the conflict, I contend, these texts encourage a more complex rendering of the region’s history by exposing the multiplicity of narratives and by uncovering lost, forgotten, or obscured stories. As textual spaces in which divergent accounts are forced to confront one another, I argue, these works ask us to reconsider the past and reflect on how these polyphonic histories might play out in the future.
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Delinquency and the family : a study of connexions between crime and socioenvironmental factors with special reference to inmates of the Constantia Reform School.
No full textBibliography: p. 221-224.The present thesis is the result of my curiosity about delinquency in South Africa. In Part One I review juvenile delinquency in general, the system of probation, and the institutionalized treatment of delinquents. I draw upon experience in comparing Israel and South Africa. Parts Two and Three of the work study the circumstances of a sample of boys lodged in the Constantia Reform School. The method of the research is described and so is the Reform School itself. Two questionnaires were designed and administered, one to the sample of boys and the other to their patents. The findings are then described and analysed
The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
Get PDFThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
The good parodist: beyond images of escape in the fiction of Doris lessing
Get PDFIn her earlier fiction, Doris Leasing presents images of escape from what Cohen and Taylor term "everyday life”. These images of escape, such as the vision of the "noble city, set four-square" in Martha Quest and Martha's plunge into the muddy veld pothole in A Proper Marriage, are framed by realism. In positing an escape from 'realism'(understood as both literary form and "everyday reality") they suggest the inadequacy of realism. However, the success of these images is limited as they attempt to posit an "outside", a project which postmodernism has taught us, is bound to fail. Lessing increasingly replaces these images of escape with parody. Parody more fundamentally interrogates realism and allows Lessing to negotiate an escape whilst recognizing her implication in contemporary society. My model of parody takes its lead from Linda Hutcheon's consideration of "serious parody", as marking "the intersection of creation and re-creation, of invention and critique" (A Theory of Parody, 1985). This, I argue, is the intersection of Lessing's political and aesthetic projects. Lessing's use of parody also provides her with a useful strategy for negotiating subjectivity. I argue that whilst she questions the liberal humanist self, she does not completely reject it. She is "post-humanist" rather than "anti-humanist". Lessing's "space fiction" seems to signal a return to the project of positing an "outside" implied by her images of escape. However, I illustrate how her space fiction is equally subject to the problematic politics of parody. Just as parody "installs" a pre-existing text to "subvert" it, so space fiction "installs" the Earth in order to critique it. The "dual-codedness" of parody is, I conclude, perfect for Lessing's multiple projects
Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Get PDFThis paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration in elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their peers, we exploit random variation in the number of immigrants across grades within the same school. The results suggest that the overall presence of immigrants had essentially no effect on the quality of the high school attended by native Israelis and on dropout rates, and at most a mild negative effect on high school matriculation rates. However, when we break up the sample by parents' education and by ethnic origin, we find that disadvantaged children were more likely to have been adversely affected by a higher immigrant concentration in elementary school. Focusing on the impact of Ethiopian immigrants who are from a much lower socio-economic background, we find stronger evidence of adverse effects, especially for disadvantaged students and in classes where immigrant concentration was particularly high.
Mindfulness and insight: A Buddhist-informed process of healing from trauma
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Previous issue date: 2020-04-21Few studies have proposed a mechanistic explanation of mindfulness grounded in a theoretical framework. Most studies that propose mechanisms are limited to data collection over one or two time points, and therefore change processes have not been fully assessed over time. As such, it is possible that the proposed mechanisms are actually short-term outcomes of mindfulness that may not fully explain the process by which mindfulness leads to increased well-being. Borrowing from Buddhist literature on the subject, insight is proposed as a mediator for the relationship between mindfulness and wellbeing. Although mindfulness is currently a widespread psychological construct and intervention, it was originally explained in Buddhist contexts. Rather than reinvent the wheel, preexisting Buddhist theories precisely and comprehensively explain the relationship between mindfulness and insight, and may result in testable psychological hypotheses. Insight is defined as an understanding of the idiographic way that current emotions, cognitions, and/or behavior are influenced by specific past experiences. It is a compelling explanatory mechanism because the process of paying attention to thoughts and sensations in a specific way (i.e. mindfulness) increases the likelihood that these sensations and thoughts are understood in relation to past causes (i.e. insight). Because insight is an understanding of how past experience influences the present, this investigation is focused on people who have experienced trauma, as this population was greatly impacted by a past experience. Given that there are limited viable measures of insight, wisdom was also measured, as wisdom can be considered an accumulation of insight. A process of healing in which the impact of mindfulness on wellbeing is mediated by insight was tested in two studies. Study 1 involved a single-time point correlational design to test main effects of the relationships between insight/wisdom, mindfulness, trauma, and wellbeing. In Study 2, these constructs along with common alternative mediators of mindfulness were examined as they change within individuals over the course of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Results of both studies indicate that there is a connection between mindfulness and wisdom and decreased symptoms when wisdom is conceptualized as self-transcendence, but not when wisdom is conceptualized as wise reasoning. Insight as measured in Study 2 did not show consistent associations with either mindfulness or wellbeing, and insight did not predict changes in wisdom. There was partial support for some pathways of the mediation model, which at times countered the direction of the hypothesized paths. Ultimately insight did not mediate the relationship between mindfulness and wellbeing. Notably, neither relaxation nor exposure appeared to better explain the relationship between mindfulness and wellbeing, as neither of these constructs predicted both pathways (i.e. X to M path and M to Y path) of the mediation model.Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 116279
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Exploring the effectiveness of universal interventions, in a primary school population, to develop resiliency and reduce anxiety levels
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