166 research outputs found
The Lives of Jessie Sampter
No full textSarah Imhoff tells the story of the queer, disabled, Zionist writer Jessie Sampter (1883–1938), whose body and life did not match typical Zionist ideals and serves as an example of the complex relationships between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism
The Lives of Jessie Sampter
No full textSarah Imhoff tells the story of the queer, disabled, Zionist writer Jessie Sampter (1883–1938), whose body and life did not match typical Zionist ideals and serves as an example of the complex relationships between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism
Bad Jews and Soft Crimes : Dispatches from the Construction of Masculinity
No full textAs Jewishness has historically lay at the nexus of race and religion, this Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion and Social Thought talk by Professor Sarah Imhoff explores historical moments when Jewish men stood accused of high-profile crimes. It also explores what happens when conceits about a gentle Jewish manhood collide with the facts of crimes, and what that tells us about the power and endurance of images of gender, religion, and crime in the cultural imaginary
Hoover’s Judeo-Christians
No full textThis chapter considers the FBI's ambivalent relationship to Jews and Judaism during the 1940s through the 1960s. It explains how could Jews be seen as unAmerican while Judaism was believed to play a foundational part in sustaining American values. On the one hand, mid-century antisemitism and Cold War ideologies combined to create suspicion of Jewish leftists, as the antagonistic relationship between the FBI and Hollywood demonstrated. On the other hand, "Judeo-Christian" rhetoric and the embrace of a "Judeo-Christian" tradition became an essential part of what differentiated America from the supposedly godless USSR for Hoover and many other Cold War era Americans. The author Sarah Imhoff, a scholar of American Judaism, explores this tension as she traces the fraught role of Jews in the FBI culture of the Hoover era.</p
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist
No full textIn The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883–1938) was best known for her Course in Zionism (1915), an American primer for understanding support of a Jewish state in Palestine. In 1919, Sampter packed a trousseau, declared herself “married to Palestine,” and immigrated there. Yet Sampter’s own life and body hardly matched typical Zionist ideals. Although she identified with Judaism, Sampter took up and experimented with spiritual practices from various religions. While Zionism celebrated the strong and healthy body, she spoke of herself as “crippled” from polio and plagued by sickness her whole life. While Zionism applauded reproductive women’s bodies, Sampter never married or bore children; in fact, she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships. By charting how Sampter’s life did not neatly line up with her own religious and political ideals, Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism
Chemically enhanced primary treatment of wastewater in Honduran Imhoff tanks
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).Imhoff tanks represent approximately 40% of the wastewater treatment infrastructure in Honduras. This thesis evaluates the usage of solid aluminum sulfate as a means to achieving national effluent regulations in Imhoff tanks in the municipality of Las Vegas, Santa Barbara. The report contains a brief background on both Imhoff tanks and chemically enhanced primary treatment and a discussion of the governing technical considerations. The residents of Las Vegas produce a very high amount of relatively dilute domestic wastewater (approximately 1,000 liters/person/day). Bench scale testing and pilot testing during January 2008 in the Las Vegas Imhoff tanks found that a dosage of approximately 150 mg/l alum (17% Al2O3) was necessary to treat Las Vegas? domestic wastewater. However, solution preparation and chemical injection were found to be difficult to achieve under current conditions and the cost of alum in this quantity is prohibitively expensive. The final recommendations to the municipality of Las Vegas include encouragement to conserve water and a comprehensive plan to better maintain the Imhoff tanks in order to achieve higher levels of treatment. This thesis also documents the author's efforts to ascertain the status of Imhoff tanks in the rest of Honduras in terms of their size, design, and maintenance. During January 2008 three other Imhoff tanks in the department of Santa Barbara and one in the department of La Paz were visited and all were found to be in varied states of disrepair. However, several hold the potential to be rehabilitated after the removal of sludge.by Anne M. Mikelonis.M.Eng
Book Review of "The Figural Jew by Sarah Hammerschlag"
No full textPublisher's, offprint versionWho is a Jew? In recent years, the question has arisen in discussions about
Israeli citizenship and the "right of return," British schools, and even kosher
food in American prisons. These recent battles over who can legitimately call
herself a Jew have been fought on the grounds of halakhah, religious observance,
ethnicity, and bloodlines
De Necessaria Ad Validitatem Remissionis Debiti Acceptatione Specimen Inaugurale
No full textQuod Cum Positionibus Ex Omni Jure Praesidibus ... D. Joanne Jacobo Cardauns J.U.D. Prof. publ. ord. & Inclytae Facultatis Juridicae Dictatore, D. Joanne Benedicto Wilmes J.U.D. Prof. publ. ord. ejusdemque Facultatis Fisco ... Publico Tentamini Submittit Author Godefridus Xaverius Imhoff Agrippinas, Philosophiae Doctor, Linguae Graecae Professor ... Anno MDCCXCIV. Die [] Januarii.Autopsie nach Ex. der ULB DüsseldorfVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Coloniae Ex Typographia UniversitatisTagesangabe fehlt im Druck, handschriftlich ergänztUniversität Köln, Dissertation, 9. Januar 179
Honduras wastewater treatment : chemically enhanced primary treatment and sustainable secondary treatment technologies for use with Imhoff tanks
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78).This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.(cont.) However, it is doubtful the costs associated with dosages required to achieve these removals are sustainable for communities such as Las Vegas. To address these deficiencies further sustainable practices for optimizing the Imhoff tanks as well as designs for both pre-treatment and secondary treatment options appropriate for use in Honduras were developed. The recommended system allows achievement of regulatory effluent levels while maintaining low annual operating costs for the system.Wastewater treatment within Honduras is indicative of the state of water and sanitation services throughout the developing portions of Central America. One technology which comprises approximately 40 percent of all treatment facilities within Honduras is the Imhoff tank. First patented in 1906 the Imhoff tank has long been out of favor within the developed world as newer technologies and large centralized processing of wastewater have developed. Nevertheless, Imhoff tanks remain appropriate primary treatment technology for decentralized facilities like those found throughout Honduras. A large number of Honduras' systems have fallen into various states of disrepair due to neglect through lack of proper maintenance. One system within the municipality of Las Vegas, Honduras was examined extensively to determine the appropriateness of rehabilitating these systems utilizing various enhancement technologies. Water quality measurements were obtained for the Las Vegas system, which was found to be providing only negligible removals of wastewater constituents. Two large factors figuring into this are: measured flow rates were approximately 50 percent higher than originally anticipated in design and routine maintenance on the system has been neglected. Utilizing chemically enhanced primary treatment with ferric chloride as a coagulant, it was possible to increase removal efficiencies and achieve regulatory effluent standards for chemical oxygen demand, turbidity, and pH, despite the high flows.by Robert C. McLean.M.Eng
Half-Jewish, Just Jewish, and the Oddities of Religious Identifications
No full textPostprint article. The Author shall remain the sole owner of the copyright in said article. The author may publish the article in any other journal or medium but such publication must include notice that the article was first published by JRS.Drawing on recent sociological studies, this article shows the complexity of Jewish identifications in the United States. It discusses five criteria for identifying who is a Jew: halakhah, Reform and Reconstructionist criteria, certain strands of Christian theology, ethnicity or race, and genetics. Then it shows how, when American Jews think about their own Jewishness, they slide among these criteria, notwithstanding the contradictions among them. Studying American Jews, then, shows the ways that religion, ethnicity, race, and genetics are profoundly but often invisibly entangled. It concludes by suggesting that attention to this entanglement will help illuminate not only Jews but many others in the American religious landscape
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