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Out of the Shtetl
No full textIn Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, Nancy Sinkoff examines some of the thinkers, particularly Mendel Lefin and Joseph Perl, who as part of the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah) of the nineteenth century attempted to articulate a vision and plan for how the Jews of Eastern Europe could become modern while remaining Jews. The book contains a new preface by the author
Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands
Get PDFIn Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, Nancy Sinkoff examines some of the thinkers, particularly Mendel Lefin and Joseph Perl, who as part of the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah) of the nineteenth century attempted to articulate a vision and plan for how the Jews of Eastern Europe could become modern while remaining Jews. The book contains a new preface by the author
In the Podolian steppe
No full textReikšminiai žodžiai: Abiejų Tautų Respublika (ATR; Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów; Žečpospolita; Sandrauga; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth); Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Podolė; Stepė; Žydai; Jews; The Grand Duchy of Lithuania; The Kingdom of Polan
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
From Left to Right Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
No full textIntellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Word about Personal and Place Names -- Introduction -- I. In New York City in the Interwar Years -- 1. American Immigrant Daughter -- In the Alcoves of Hunter College -- Starting Out in Yiddish in the 1930s -- Lost in Migration: Leibush Lehrer's Ambivalent Secularism -- II. In Poland, Refugee New York City, and Germany -- 2. An American in Vilna -- The Men and Women of the YIVO -- The Aspirantur -- Christian and Jewish Poles -- Days of Decision -- 3. The New York YIVO in Wartime -- Back in the United States -- Trouble on the YIVO's Home Front -- 4. In the American and British Zones of Occupied Postwar Germany -- The Offenbach Archival Depot -- In the British Zone -- III. Becoming an American -- 5. Insider Politics at the American Jewish Committee -- Seeing Red -- Intergroup Relations in Black, White, and Jewish -- First Cracks in Intergroup Relations -- 6. Whither Secularism? -- How High the Wall? -- The Personal Is Political -- 7. Representing Polish Jewry: The Golden Tradition -- Writing Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora -- Khurbn Forshung for the American Public -- Dubnow's Other Daughter -- 8. Defending Polish Jewry: The War Against the Jews -- The Centrality of Antisemitism to Hitler's Intentionalism -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 1 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg-and Arendt, Part 2 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 3 -- 9. Universalism and Particularism among the New York Intellectuals -- Arendt's Allure -- Dawidowicz's Authenticity -- IV. Eastern Europe in America -- 10. The Europeanness of the Jewish "Neoconservative Turn" -- Jewish Neoconservative Avant la Lettre -- The Problem of Violence and Black Power -- The Language and Literature of Power-and AntisemitismPostcolonialism and the External Critique of Jewish "Power" -- That "Infamous" Resolution -- 11. Dina d'malkhuta Dina ("The Law of the Land Is the Law") -- Utopian Anxiety -- The New Jewish Left and the Internal Critique of Jewish "Power" -- Quiescence as Diasporic Political Savvy -- Intellectual Tomboy -- Making Peace with Capitalism -- 12. Warsaw and Vilna on Her Mind -- The Holocaust on the Mall -- Stung by Stingo -- Babi Yar, the War in the East, and Ukrainian-Jewish Relations -- Polish-Jewish Relations and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- 13. Rapprochement with Republicanism -- Recriminations on American Soil -- Operation Peace for Galilee and Israel-Diaspora Politics -- A Small Circle of Friends -- Crossing the Aisle -- Reagan, Bitburg, and German Guilt -- Zakhor -- Epilogue: Jewish History, Jewish Politics -- Historical Agency: Who Has It? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the AuthorIntellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz.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
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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