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Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Tamar (Gen 38)
No full textThis small volume contains an edition (from Vatican ms. 117) of Jacob of Sarug’s homily on Tamar (420 lines long). The full title is “On Tamar and on the Mystery of the Church.” The biblical narrative on which the poem is based (Gen 38) gives Jacob the opportunity to discuss various women in the early part of biblical history and in Jesus’ lineage, as well as the fact that a woman who is called a prostitute is in that lineage. Jacob explains how Scripture’s language is used in this regard
„Les russes“ – The Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in the Eyes of the Jewish Bourgeoisie in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich in the Early 20th Century
No full textBen-Ami's Swisse Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream
No full text“Ben-Ami’s Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream”
in: East European Jews in Switzerland, T. Lewinsky, S. Mayoraz (Eds.), Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, pp. 178-198.
ISBN 978-3-11-030069-7
e-ISBN 978-3-11-030071-0
ISSN 2192-9645
This article specifically analyzes a question that has received only minor attention in my previous research on Ben-Ami, a question concerning the role of Switzerland in the writer’s prose and his attitude toward this beloved but temporary shelter. Ben-Ami spent more than two decades in Geneva, after leaving the Russian Empire with his family (in 1905) and before moving permanently to Palestine (probably in 1924); moreover, even before settling in Geneva, he visited Switzerland repeatedly both on holiday and as a representative from Southern Russia at Zionist congresses. Even though the number of pages that Ben-Ami dedicates wholly to his Swiss experiences is small, these are of great interest insofar as they contain crucial details about the “Jewish question” at the beginning of the 20th Century. Ben-Ami’s first “Swiss work” is a short story entitled “Tovarishchi” (‘Friends’) and published in 1909 in the Journal Evreisky Mir (‘The Jewish World’). The second is a short but extraordinary memoir of the First Zionist Congress, published in Moscow in 1918 (it is proposed for the first time in English translation as the Appendix 1 in the same volume). The third work is still in manuscript: a tale under the title “Na vershine gory” (‘On the Mountain Peak’), written in Geneva in 1911 and never published (at least in its Russian original version). The analysis of these three works offers a very coherent and detailed picture of Ben-Ami’s approach to the exceptional crises that beset European Jewry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, i.e. the power struggle among Social Democrats, Bundists, nationalists, Hasidim, the assimilated petty bourgeoisie, the capitalists, etc. Finally, the theoretical suggestions by Svetlana Boym (2001) and Yuri Sleskine (2004) are applied for a enriched interpretation of Ben-Ami’s obsessive and paradoxical feeling of toska/nostalgija
East European Jews in Switzerland
No full textKlappentext: During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range – among others – from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students’ colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation
Interview of Rick Greene by Tamar Chute
No full textRachel Carson: author of The Silent Spring (p. 2) --
Jeff Miller: victim of Kent State shootings (p. 13) --
E. Paul Taiganides: Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering (pp. 2, 20)The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/university_archives/Greene_Rick_102210.mp4Rick Greene came to OSU as a freshman in 1969. He witnessed firsthand the student demonstrations and riots of 1970, and the changes that they brought to OSU and across the country. He currently makes his home in Florida, but returns to Ohio State for football games
Co-selection of Mercury and Multiple Antibiotic Resistances in Bacteria Exposed to Mercury in the Fundulus heteroclitus Gut Microbiome
No full textThe emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria is currently one of the most serious challenges to human health. To combat this problem, it is critical to understand the processes and pathways that result in the creation of antibiotic resistance gene pools in the environment. In this study we examined the effects of mercury (Hg) exposure on the co-selection of Hg and antibiotic resistant bacteria that colonize the gastrointestinal tract of the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), a small, estuarine fish. We examined this connection in two experimental systems: (i) a short-term laboratory exposure study where fish were fed Hg-laced food for 15 days and (ii) an examination of environmental populations from two sites with very different levels of Hg contamination. In the lab exposure study, fish muscle tissue accumulation of Hg was proportional to food Hg concentration (R2=0.99; p<0.0001). In the environmental study, fish from the contaminated site accumulated 3 fold more Hg compared to fish from the reference site (p<0.05). Further, abundance of the Hg resistance gene merA was more than 8 fold higher (p<0.0001) in DNA extracts of ingesta of fish from the contaminated site, suggesting adaptation to Hg. Finally, resistance to 3 or more antibiotics was more common in Hg resistant as compared to Hg sensitive bacterial colonies that were isolated from fish ingesta (p<0.001) demonstrating co-selection of Hg and antibiotic resistances. Together, our results highlight the possibility for the creation of antibiotic resistance gene pools as a result of exposure to Hg in contaminated environments.Peer reviewe
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