The toleration and persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire

by Dora Askowith

Florian's historischer Roman Elieser und Nephtaly

übers. von Alexander Friedländer

„Extra locos sepulturae“ – Review about finds of newborns inside Roman settlements in present-day Switzerland

Finds of remains of newborns inside Roman settlements are a widespread phenomenon in the Imperium Romanum, including presentday Switzerland. Since the publication of the last review article (Berger 1993) numerous new finds have been made. Therefore it seems important to summarize archaeological and anthropological parameters again, and to re-assess them collectively. During a literature review a total of 262 cases were collected. Similarities as well as differences in the funerary practices become evident. A combination of inhumation, single deposit/grave, and absence of grave goods is the least common denominator in the funerary treatment of individuals who died around the time of birth. However, methods of classical physical anthropology are limited. Histological and biochemical methods are promising and may allow further statements in the future, e.g. with regard to the differentiation between live and still births. In order to evaluate possible correlations between archaeological and anthropological parameters, findings from settlements and cemeteries that are documented in situ as well as a sustainable theoretical framework are required.

Isak Noa Mannheimer, Prediger : eine biographische Skizze ; mit Benützung von Archivalien d. k.k. Staats- u. Justizministerien, d. k.k. obersten Gerichtshofes, d. k.k. niederösterreichischen Statthalterei u. d. Wiener Magistrates (zur Feier d. 70. Geburtstages, am 17. Oct. 1863)

von G. Wolf

Le Grand Retour ou les Grands Adieux ? Le roman de l’exil chez Kundera

Milan Kundera, an intellectual born in Moravia who emigrated to France in 1975, in L’Ignorance leans on the myth of Ulysses to question contemporary realities of exile and return, nostalgia and oblivion. Does the hope of returning to the place of origin really haunt the modern émigré? To what extent does the notion of homeland still have meaning for him? And what happens when the émigré, unlike Ulysses the great nostalgic, prefers to stay with Calypso his lover rather than return to his native land and faithful wife Penelope? With some cynicism, Kundera in L’Ignorance offers scenarios of exile which desecrate and destabilize historically and culturally available standards while allowing us to reflect on new paradigmatic figures of contemporary exile.

Die Gefangene Gottes : Roman

von Schalom Asch. Dt. von Siegfried Schmitz