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Performing Migrant Identity: Canadian Yiddish Personal Narratives
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the multiple ways migrants use their personal narratives to create, express, and transmit new hybrid transnational cultures and identities. Between 1900 and 1930, over half a million Eastern European Jews settled in Canada, increasing Canada’s Jewish population by more than 800%. These migrants established new Jewish communities in cities, towns, and farming colonies and changed the face of Canadian Jewish society. This dissertation undertakes an analytical reading of Yiddish personal narratives, published and unpublished, written by 21 of these migrants. A range of approaches to stories of self, including folkloristic, literary, and psychological combined with ethnopoetic analysis provide insight into the multiple functions and meanings integrated into these migrant personal narratives. Contact approaches and postcolonial theory are utilized to understand the relationships between the individuals, space, and group identities. This work uncovers what migrant personal narratives reveal about individual and communal creative adaptation and the connections between individuals, their previous home(s) and culture(s), and their new ones.
דיסרטציה זו בוחנת את מגוון הדרכים שבהן מהגרים משתמשים בסיפורים אישיים כדי לכונן ולבטא זהויות בינלאומיות היברידיות. בין השנים 1900 ו-1930, יותר מחצי מיליון יהודים ממזרח אירופה התיישבו בקנדה, ובכך הגדילו את אוכלוסיית היהודים בקנדה ביותר מ-800%. מהגרים אלו הקימו קהילות בערים, כפרים, ומושבות חקלאיות ושינו את האופי של החברה היהודית בקנדה. מחקר זה מנתח סיפורים אישיים ביידיש, שנכתבו על ידי עשרים ואחד מהגרים, חלקם ראו אור וחלקם נותרו בכתב יד. מספר שיטות ניתוח של סיפורים אישיים – מחקר הפולקלור, חקר הספרות, פסיכולוגיה, ואתנו-פואטיקה – שופכות אור על הפונקציות והמשמעויות שגלומות בסיפורים אישיים של מהגרים. המחקר עוסק ביחסים בין אנשים, מרחב, וזהות הקבוצה, תוך שילוב בין תיאוריות מגע (contact approaches) ותאוריה פוסט-קולוניאלית (post-colonial theory).Ph.D
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Get PDFBecoming Canadian: Folk Literary Innovation in the Memoirs of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to Canada
Get PDFThis article considers the ways Yiddish-speaking immigrants to Canada creatively adapted folklore that they learned in “the old home” in order to make it fit their new Canadian contexts, and in doing so created new hybrid folklore and identities. To do this, I discuss the autobiographical texts of three people who migrated between 1900 and 1930, J.J. Goodman’s Gezamelte Shriften (Collected Writings) (Winnipeg: 1919), Michael Usiskin’s Oksn un Motorn (Oxen and Tractors) (Toronto: 1945), and Falek Zolf ’s Oyf Fremder Erd (On Foreign Soil) (Winnipeg: 1945). I argue that these personal narratives offer important insights into how the first major wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to Canada formed and expressed Canadian-Eastern European Jewish culture.Dans le présent article, nous explorerons la créativité avec laquelle les immigrants yiddishophones ont adapté au contexte canadien le folklore qu’ils ont appris dans l’« ancien monde », créant, de ce fait, un folklore hybride, ainsi que de nouvelles identités. À cette fin, nous examinerons les textes autobiographiques de trois individus qui ont immigré au pays entre 1900 et 1930, à savoir les Gezamelte Shriften (OEuvres complètes) de J. J. Goodman (Winnipeg, 1919), Oksn un Motorn (Les boeufs et les tracteurs) de Michael Usiskin (Toronto, 1945) et Oyf Fremder Erd (En sol étranger) de Falek Zolf (Winnipeg, 1945). Nous défendrons la thèse suivant laquelle ces récits offrent d’importantes pistes pour comprendre la contribution de la première vague d’immigrants juifs d’Europe orientale à la création et l’expression de la culture judéo-canadienne est-européenne
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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