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1944: A Preview of Much of What Would Follow
Get PDFThis article focuses on the little-known arrival of the first group of Holocaust survivors in Canada in 1944. They arrived from Lisbon and came through the efforts of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Congress Executive Director Saul Hayes spearheaded this refugee project. The author argues that, while few in number,
efforts to negotiate the entry of immigrants, and subsequent Jewish communal efforts to absorb immigrant populations in Toronto, and reactions to the immigrants, were to prove paradigmatic predictors of communal management and reaction to much larger Holocaust survivor influxes after the war. While the article focuses on immigrant absorption in Toronto, it also discusses broader issues associated with this movement and the role played by the Yiddish press in reporting refugee arrival.Cet article porte sur l’arrivée peu connue du premier groupe de survivants de l’Holocauste au Canada en 1944. Ils sont arrivés de Lisbonne grâce aux efforts du Congrès juif canadien. Le directeur général du Congrès, Saul Hayes, a dirigé ce projet de réfugiés. L’auteur soutient que, bien que peu nombreux, les efforts pour négocier l’entrée de ces immigrants, les efforts communaux juifs subséquents à l’intégration des immigrants à Toronto, et les réactions aux immigrants étaient des prédicteurs paradigmatiques de la gestion communautaire et des réactions aux afflux beaucoup plus grands des survivants de l’Holocauste après la guerre. Bien que l’article se concentre sur l’intégration des immigrants à Toronto, il aborde également les questions plus larges associées à ce mouvement et le rôle joué par la presse yiddish en rapporter l’arrivée des réfugiés
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
REVIEW: Na Li, "Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto’s Urban Landscape"
No full textImmigration Opportunity or Organizational Oxymoron? The Canadian Jewish Farm School and the Department of Immigration, 1925-1946
Get PDFExamining uniquely dramatic historical narratives often illuminates the much more complex web of issues surrounding them. For example the stories of the Komagata Maru and St. Louis incidents speak volumes about key questions in Canadian immigration history. But less dramatic narratives also serve to illuminate the intricacies of interwar Canadian immigration policy towards Jews. The strange tale of the Canadian Jewish Farm School (CJFS) of Georgetown, Ontario yields fascinating insights into the relationship between Canadian Jews, the Department of Immigration, and Frederick Blair that further illuminates the work of previous historians. It also adds to our knowledge of the intra-Jewish squabbles over immigration strategies and tactics taking place between the wars, and the extent to which these affected Departmental policy
Review Essay: Annalee Greenberg and Daniel Stone, eds., Jewish Life and Times, vol. 10; Jerrold Landau, The Interconnected Jewish Families of Ottawa, Canada; Rouyn-Noranda Former Residents, The Jewish Community of Rouyn-Noranda: The Life and History of a Small Jewish Community in Northern Quebec
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