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Yitzhak Arad – a witness, soldier and historian
No full textThe article is devoted to Yitzhak Arad – a General in the Israel Defense Forces, a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, researching the history of the Holocaust, and the director of Yad Vashem, bound from an early age with the Zionist idea . The author of the article cites biographical information about Arad, who, born in the Vilnius region under the name Rudnicki, survived the war as a member of Soviet guerrilla troops, and then got to Palestine. The author draws attention to the numerous achievements of Yitzhak Arad in the field of the history of the Holocaust: he is the author of the most important study devoted to the Vilnius ghetto (Ghetto in flames), and a study on the death camps in Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor. Moreover, he helped to popularize in the West Dziennik (The Diary) of Kazimierz Sakowicz by the means of an English edition. The author also mentions in this article the controversies associated with the historian – including the initiation of an investigation in 2006 by the Lithuanian authorities, concerning the participation of Arad as an employee of the Soviet secret police in actions against the Lithuanian partisans and in atrocities against the civilian population, which was, however, closed for the lack of evidence.EWA ROGALEWSKA, dr, wieloletni kustosz Muzeum w Tykocinie (do 2001 roku), kierownik Referatu Edukacji Historycznej w Oddziałowym Biurze Edukacji Publicznej w Białymstoku Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej. Autorka książek: Getto białostockie. Doświadczenie Zagłady – świadectwa literatury i życia (Białystok 2008; wyd. 2 uzup.: Białystok 2013) oraz (wraz z D. Boćkowskim i J. Sadowską) Kres świata białostockich Żydów (Białystok 2014). Redaktorka i współredaktorka wielu tomów, w tym: (wraz z Ł. Lubiczem-Łapińskim) Zagłada dworów w województwie białostockim po roku 1939 (Białystok 2012). Autorka wielu wystaw o najnowszej historii regionu. Współautorka szeregu projektów badawczych oraz edukacyjnych.Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, BiałystokAleksiun-Mądrzak N., Nielegalna emigracja Żydów z Polski w latach 1945–1947, cz. 1, „Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego” 1995/1996, nr 2.Arad I., Getto In flames: the struggle and destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust, New York 1982.Bohdanowicz J., Oddział partyzancki Kmicica Armia Krajowa Okręg Wileński, Warszawa 2008Berendt G., Emigracja ludności żydowskiej z Polski w latach 1945–1967, w: Polska 1944/45–1989. Studia i materiały 7, Warszawa 2006.Cholewiński Z., Groza i prześladowanie Polaków i Żydów na Wileńszczyźnie, Sefer zikaron le-esrim ve-shalosh kehilot she-nehrevu be-ezor Svintsian, ed. Sh. Kanc, Tel Aviv 1965.Grunt-Mejer Z. M., Partyzancka Brygada Kmicica. Wileńszczyzna 1943, Bydgoszcz 1997.Następstwa zagłady Żydów. Polska 1944–2010, red. F. Tych, M. Adamczyk-Garbowska, Lublin 2011.Pisarski M., Emigracja Żydów z Polski w latach 1945–1951, w: Studia z dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku, red. J. Tomaszewski, Warszawa 1997.Stankowski A., Nowe spojrzenie na statystyki dotyczące emigracji Żydów z Polski po 1944 roku, w: G. Berendt, A. Grabski. A. Stankowski, Studia z historii Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku, Warszawa 2000.Szaynok B., Z historią i Moskwą w tle. Polska a Izrael 1944–1968, Warszawa 2007.Szarota T., U progu zagłady. Zajścia antyżydowskie i pogromy w okupowanej Europie: Warszawa, Paryż, Amsterdam, Antwerpia, Kowno, Warszawa 2000.Wardzyńska M., Sytuacja ludności polskiej w Generalnym Komisariacie Litwy czerwiec 1941 – lipiec 1944, Warszawa 1993.Żbikowski A., U genezy Jedwabnego. Żydzi na Kresach Północno-Wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej wrzesień 1939 – lipiec 1941, Warszawa 2006.11312
Middle East : steps to lasting peace
No full textSince its creation in 1948, Israel and its neighbors have been in a near constant state of war. Yet after seven wars and countless dead-end peace negotiations, the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 made it seem that peace in the region might finally be at hand. In a deal secretly brokered between the PLO and the Israeli government, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to grant Palestinians self-rule in the Gaza Strip, Jericho, and the occupied West Bank. In 1994, the region enjoyed another diplomatic success when King Hussein of Jordan agreed to make peace with Israel, ending a protracted state of war. Despite these dramatic steps towards peace, however, Israel had yet to reach an agreement on the status of Palestinian refugees, resolve the dispute between Israel settlers and Palestinians in the occupied territories, or sign peace accords with neighboring Lebanon and Syria. Where does the peace process stand in the Middle East, and what can be done to build on the momentum of the Oslo Accords? In this episode host Peter Krogh is joined by Samuel Lewis, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Dennis Ross, special coordinator for U.S. Middle East policy under President Clinton, to discuss Middle East peace solutions and America's role in peace negotiations.Examines prospects for peace in the Middle East following the successes of the Oslo Accords and the Israel-Jordan peace treaty
Activation of Pentafluorophenylsilanes by Weak Lewis Bases in Reaction with Iminium Cations
No full textThe Lewis base mediated carbon−carbon bond forming reactions between pentafluorophenylsilanes and
iminium cations were studied theoretically and experimentally. The complexation of silanes with anionic
Lewis bases was analyzed computationally using DFT methods at the B3LYP/6-31+G(d) level. The
pentafluorophenyl group was found to exhibit a significant stabilizing effect on the formation of
pentacoordinate silicon species, with (C6F5)3SiF and C6F5SiF3 being the strongest Lewis acids. Comparison
of geometrical isomers of trigonal bipyramidal siliconates R2(C6F5)SiXY- (R = Me, F, Cl; X, Y = F,
Cl, ClO4) revealed that the heteroatoms and the C6F5 group prefer to occupy apical and equatorial positions,
respectively. Calculations of C6F5 group transfer processes from silanes to N,N-dimethyliminium cation
lead to the following conclusions: (1) when employing weak Lewis bases X- = Cl-, ClO4- as activators,
R2(C6F5)SiF are more reactive than R2(C6F5)SiX (X = Cl, ClO4); (2) the C6F5 group is much more reactive
in an apical position than in an equatorial position of the siliconate; (3) a solvent greatly increases the
reaction barrier by stabilizing the reactants; and (4) the efficiency of C−C bond formation can be improved
by rendering the process intramolecular. It was shown experimentally that reactions of (C6F5)3SiF with
PhCHNMe2+TfO- can be promoted by a series of weak Lewis bases, from which the chloride anion
was the most effective. Even more facile was the reaction of N-(silyloxyethyl)iminium ion
(C6F5)3SiOCH2CH2N(Me)CHPh+TfO-, likely proceeding via intramolecular transfer of a C6F5 group.
The optimal conditions for pentafluorophenylation of iminium ions involved the use of benzyltriethylammonium chloride in refluxing dichloroethane
A Permanent Beginning R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity
No full textSituates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is Jewish Literary Modernity? -- Why R. Nachman? -- Some Structural Notes -- Part I: Political-Aesthetic Questions -- Chapter 1 Positioning R. Nachman -- The Organization of the Jews -- Chapter 2 Representing Difference -- A Decree of Conversion -- [Scene 1] -- [Scene 2] -- [Scene 3] -- [Scene 4, Part 1] -- [Scene 4, Part 2] -- [Afterword] -- Chapter 3 The Secret of Our Wisdom -- Canceling the Script of Our Hand -- Part II: Questions of Social and Intellectual History -- Chapter 4 Was R. Nachman an Innovation Such as the World Had Never Seen? -- Is Innovation Possible? -- The Temporality of the Question -- Chapter 5 Was R. Nachman a "Jewish Intellectual"? -- What Is an Intellectual? -- The Possibility of a Jewish Intellectual -- The Topography of the Question: Teaching I:64 -- Antiphilosophy -- Part III: Literary Questions -- Chapter 6 Was R. Nachman the Messiah? -- Allegory and Symbol as Interpretative Frameworks -- The Messianic Synthesis -- Reading Practices of the Allegorical and Symbolic Frameworks -- Kabbalistic Stories -- Chapter 7 Poetics of Intransitivity -- Missing the Ending -- A Permanent Beginning -- Poetics of Intransitivity -- Conclusion: Reading outside Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexSituates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Incentive policies and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa
No full textExports in general, and agricultural exports in particular, are more responsive to price incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developing countries.. These are the results of an econometric investigation on the effects of real exchange rates on exports. It further appears that in Sub-Saharan Africa the impact of real exchange rates is greater on agricultural exports than on the exports of goods and services. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, market-oriented countries generally gained export market shares while interventionist countries lost shares. This occurred when market-oriented, not interventionist countries, maintained realistic exchange rates and did not bias incentives against exports. For example, Kenya and the Ivory Coast exemplify market-oriented, and Tanzania and Ghana interventionist, countries. Pairwise comparisons between the Ivory Coast and Ghana have indicated the superiority of the market-oriented approach in promoting exports and agricultural production.Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Export Competitiveness,Environmental Economics&Policies,Access to Markets
President Yitzhak Navon
No full textDigital imageYitzhak Navon was born in Jerusalem in 1921. He served in the Haganah from 1946 to 1949. He was secretary to Prime Ministers Ben Gurion and Moshe Sharett. He is the author of several books in Hebrew, Spanish and Arabic. He was elected to the Knesset in 1965. He served as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Education from 1984 to 1990, and as the fifth president of Israel from 1978 to 1983. Together with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, he signed Israel’s “Basic Law” making Jerusalem complete and united, the capital of Israe
Exploiting DNA Damage Response in the Era of Precision Oncology
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