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Experiences and prospects of the conservation and promotion of Jewish heritage in Oradea and Timişoara, western Romania
No full textWestern Romania has long been characterized by ethnic diversity. However, due to deportations, emigration, and assimilation, both regions today have a large Romanian-speaking majority population.
This contribution focuses on the Jewish heritage in the two largest cities of these two regions, Timişoara (Banat) and Oradea (Crişana). The two cities shared some historical events but also had different experiences, despite their relative geographical proximity. The Jewish community of Timişoara survived the Holocaust intact, an almost unique case in Central-Eastern Europe, but largely left the city after the war. The Jewish community of Oradea, instead, was almost completely deported and killed in Auschwitz and a renewed post-war community gradually emigrated abroad in the following decades. Both Jewish communities are now small in size but have inherited a vast tangible and intangible heritage, including several impressive synagogues, partially restored in recent years.
The author’s field research shows that local Jewish stakeholders are aware of the potential of this heritage in terms of cultural and economic benefits, but significant weaknesses and concerns exist, as the small dimension of these communities, and their financial constraints, challenge their future role in promoting and managing this heritage, which is now essentially in the hands of non-Jewish public and private stakeholders
To cover or to hide? The role of the media in the trials of the nazis and their collaborators.
Full text linkRec.: Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintarė Malinauskaitė, Hektoras Vitkus (eds.), Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, Osnabrück: fibre Verlag, 2022
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Call for Papers: Remembrance of the First World War in Interwar Europe. In search for new analytical categories
No full textDeadline: November 30, 2016 International Conference, Thomas Mann Cultural Centre in Nida, 21.09.2017 - 24.09.2017 Conveners: Dr. Tomas Balkelis (Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, United States), Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland), Dr. Klaus Richter (School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Prof. Dr. Vasilijus Safronovas (Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology,..
The Jewish Contribution to Lithuanian Independence 1918/1919
No full textHistorians have already shown how the Jewish minority contributed to the rebirth of the Lithuanian state in 1918. The beginning of the experiment to integrate the Jewish minority into the reemergent Lithuanian state, however, has often been told from the perspective of failure only. The article challenges this view, by describing how Zionism, the Jewish national movement, supported the emergence of the Lithuanian state. The author analyses how the Jews supported the newly created Lithuanian government by voting to send representatives to it, and by producing a document that improved the international position of the Lithuanian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, and which was helpful for the international recognition of the young state
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