...This chapter challenges the presumption that a positive conception of diaspora comes into its own with modernity and Jewish Emancipation, that until modern times, Jews lived under the cloud of galut. It distinguishes a so-called gloomy approach to Jewish dispersion, which is more...

... is read as identifying the movement from galut to diaspora with the Emancipation movement from the shtetl to the city. Mazel is the story of four generations of Jewish women, beginning in the shtetl (Shluftchev), proceeding to the city...

... by humanity, we might begin to formulate new ways of thinking and doing anthropology, medicine, activism, and intervention in ways that bring us closer to a truer form of mutual recognition and emancipation. against humanity anti humanism Ferguson James humanity Farmer Paul Partners in Health Sendero...

...This chapter investigates Russia's regime of legal disabilities specifically aimed at its Jewish population when Jewish emancipation had swept from west to east across nearly the entire European continent. It observes that the Russian Jews in the decades before 1917, who were themselves victims...

... particular attention to three aspects of their work: their inauguration of the study of Russian-Jewish history in order to buttress arguments for legal emancipation; their alliance with Petersburg Jewish elites and the resulting reinvention of the political strategies of those elites; and their articulation...

...This chapter places in perspective the problem of Jewish emancipation and integration in late imperial Russia by comparing it to two parallel phenomena: the experience of Jews elsewhere in Europe and the experience of other minorities in the Russian Empire. It highlights the stratifying effects...

...This chapter considers whether the “emancipation” that the Revolution enacted was good or bad for the Jews. It asks why revolutionaries spent so much time and energy thinking about the Jews, discussing and debating their status and proposing and passing laws directed at them specifically. It also...

...This chapter discusses the different features of slavery. It discusses the persistence of slavery in the twenty-first century, hereditary debt bondage in India, and the consequences of botched emancipation as seen in the United States after the Civil War and in postapartheid South Africa...

..., resistance, and emancipation around the globe. They map areas that are currently at the cutting edge of social science writing on sexuality, as well as the complex interface between theory and practice. The book highlights the extent to which populations and communities that once were the object...

..., resistance, and emancipation around the globe. They map areas that are currently at the cutting edge of social science writing on sexuality, as well as the complex interface between theory and practice. The book highlights the extent to which populations and communities that once were the object...

...This chapter sketches the history of Jewish portraiture and points out that assimilation, one of the effects of Emancipation, issued in portraits of Jews in which there are no overt signs of their Jewishness. This was so in colonial and federal America as well as in central Europe in the eighteenth...

.... The book treats citizenship as a practice, unearthing numerous instances when individuals and groups manipulated official texts to assert power within and against the state. It then reviews the emancipation of writing from the tutelage of powerful, manipulative scribes who acted as political operators...

... of the discussion of Jewish rights and self-definition and of the vision of Jewish political emancipation. At the same time, it was an approach that challenged dominant modern political concepts in which both anti-Semitism and imperialism were acceptable. In her writings against the partition plan, Arendt warned...

...This chapter explores some of the public impressions of Conjure in the decades between Emancipation and the first half of the twentieth century. After the slavery period, black supernatural traditions acquired vastly different meanings as they were exposed to forces of change both within...

... seminal but unstaged work (often also deemed a debacle), The Fiery Angel, fraught with pseudo mystical meanings, bore witness to the falseness of Symbolist ideals. The opera's end, moreover, depicts no spiritual emancipation but rather oblivion, the annulment of theurgic striving...

... and become involved in the Revolution, where he was the figure credited with effecting Jewish emancipation. Annales school Asia biography genre of Priestley Joseph Stanford University Baker Keith Michael Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Estates General Grégoire elected as deputy...

... historical context. Like the figures she vividly brought to life — Rahel Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Hermann Broch, and many others — Hannah Arendt, her achievements and biases, her creativity and inner conflicts, must be seen as part of the quite extraordinary history of post-emancipation German...

... society, and each retains its importance in the shift from the early modern to the modern world in Germany. The book has also concentrated on the emancipation of writing from official tutelage. The data suggests that while the voluntary association stands as the primary crystallized, institutional...