Seasonal Greeting token 2000

Obverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation. Reverse: Map from the15th century with Jerusalem as a center of the world.

Michaelson family papers, undated, 1892-1920, 1943-1944, 1965, 1992, 1994, 1999-2000.

The Michaelson family papers include early family correspondence, documents, and ephemera; genealogical research conducted by Ms. Appleby, Anna’s granddaughter; copies of New York City marriage certificates kept by Louis B. Michaelson, Rabbi, between 1906-1907; and Anna Michaelson’s copies of original birth records that she kept as midwife in the Lower East Side in New York City between 1892-1916.

Grand Street Boys' Association (New York, N.Y.) Records, undated, 1907-1968, bulk 1940-2000.

The Grand Street Boys' Association began in 1916 as a reunion of men who had grown up on or near Grand Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan and quickly grew into an active club, open to all men (and eventually women) regardless of religion, ethnicity, or social class. The Association promoted welfare projects, acts of fellowship and tolerance, scholarships, youth employment, war efforts, and the elimination of discrimination in sports, among other projects. The collection documents the activities of the Association, as well as the Grand Street Boys' Foundation, its financial arm established in 1945, and its Hobbycraft Program, a charitable program tasked with collecting and redistributing donated items to charitable and nonprofit organizations. Materials include administrative records, financial records, correspondence, minutes, membership records, newsletters, yearbooks, artifacts, speeches, and photographs relating to both the New York Grand Street Boys' Association and the Association's Grand Street House in England. Series I, comprising the majority of the collection, contains the records of the Grand Street Boys' Association. In it are extensive membership records, meeting minutes, annual yearbooks, financial records, administrative material, newsletters, and artifacts. Series II documents the Grand Street Boys' Foundation and contains administrative records and financial records. Some overlap of material will be found in Series I and II such as material pertaining to the relationship between the Association and Foundation. Series III consists of photographs documenting both the Association and Foundation. The photographs show members and highlight the activities of the Grand Street Boys.

Lt. Colonel Rachel (Rae) Diane Landy papers undated, 1913-2000

Rachel Diane Landy Papers consist of correspondence, reminiscences, legal documents, journal, newspaper and magazine articles and color Xerox copies of photographs as well as original photographs. This collection is of value to researchers studying the history of Hadassah and the living conditions and state of medical care in Palestine during the second decade of the 20th century. It is also of interest to researchers studying women in America during the first half of the 20th century who were able to pursue a challenging and productive career and become a leader and innovator in their chosen field. In addition it will be of interest to those researching the graduates of the Cleveland public and professional schools at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, and the Cleveland Jewish community and the George Crile U.S. Army Hospital in Cleveland during the 1940's.

Jacobi-Schlossberg family papers, undated, 1870-2000.

The collection documents the lives Sarah Simon Jacobi (1857-1943), Freda Moritz Jacobi (1886-1939), Alice Jacobi Schlossberg (1912-1987) and Deda Schlossberg Miller (1940- ), through diaries, baby books, photographs, and correspondence. Also included in the collection are a silver card case, a silver coffee pot and creamer, and an etching of the Jacobi family home. For further information on these objects see the museum curator.

Ihanne ja todellisuus : Jäsenyyteen sitoutuminen Suomen evankelis-luterilaisessa kirkossa 1960-luvulta 2000-luvulle

The subject of the study is the ideal and reality of commitment to membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland from the 1960s to the 2000s. The research task is to ascertain what manner of commitment the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland expects from its members (the ideal) and how in reality membership of the Church is realized (empiria). The research object is also to study the extent to which the ideal of commitment evinced by the Church and the actual relation of commitment to the Church changed during the research period. Additionally, those factors were analysed which influence the relation between the ideal and reality of commitment. In the analysis of the ideal of commitment the research data are official documents of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. They include confessions of the Church, Catechisms, Christian doctrine, joint strategies and plans of the Church, likewise the Church Act and Church Order. The reality of commitment is explored on the basis of Church membership, participation in parish activity and the private practice of religion, likewise attitude to Christian faith. The empirical data of the study comprise Church statistics, material from Statistics Finland and relevant surveys implemented during the research period. The ideal of commitment alongside membership includes knowing the basic tenets of Christian faith and family life based on prayer and participation in liturgical cycles. A member of the Church is expected to take care of his/her faith by living in participation of the Word and sacrament, bearing responsibility for the parish and faithfully discharging his/her worldly obligations. There have been no major changes in the ideal of commitment during the research period. On the contrary, the reality of commitment has changed. Although the majority of Finns are still members of the Church, there has been a constant decline in their share of the population. The same can be stated with respect to parish life. This has its own strengths, among them Church rites, parish activity around feast days and also work with children and confirmation training. However, the general trend is towards a decline in participation. There has also been a decrease in commitment to belief in God as taught by the Church. On the other hand, private religious observance has not changed at all. From the perspective of commitment the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland exists in a state of tension between the theological ideal and sociological empiria. Matters exerting a particular influence over the relation between ideal and reality are communality and varying conceptions of the Church, likewise contextuality and the related private Christianity. Societal change poses a challenge to traditional Church communality. A decline in communality has in turn led to a decline in belonging to the Church. Weakening awareness of membership has undermined the handing down of the tradition among younger generations. Modernization has influence the identity of the Church and brought the Church to an internal divergence. This way it has been able to retain its structure as a folk church but at the same time it has lost its opportunities for the formation of a clear identity. The Church has adjusted to societal change by outward-directed activities (performance) alongside the purely religious message (function). The tension between an unchanged message and a changed operating environment has increased. The challenge of contextuality has led the Church to review parish life, the nature of teaching and activity and the language used by the Church, likewise the cultural modus. Increasingly privatized Christianity challenges above all the theology and teaching of the Church, but also the life of worship and relation to cultural life.

Större frihet - bättre lokalt anpassad service? : Förvaltningsreformer och kommunernas service för utvecklingsstörda 1994-2000

In the beginning of the 1990s the legislation regarding the municipalities and the system of central government transfers were reformed in Finland. This resulted in a move from detailed governmental control to increased municipal autonomy. The purpose of this decentralization was to enable the municipalities to better adapt their administration and service supply to local needs. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of the increased municipal autonomy on the organization of services for people with intellectual disabilities. Did the increased autonomy cause the municipalities to alter their service supply and production and did the services become more adapted to local needs? The data consists of statistical information on service use and production, and also of background data such as demographics, economics and political elections on 452 municipalities in Finland from the years 1994 and 2000. The methods used are cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and factor analysis. The municipalities could be grouped in two categories: those which offered mainly one kind of residential services and others which had more varied mixes of services. The use of institutional care had decreased and municipalities which used institutional care as their primary form of service were mostly very small municipalities in 2000. The situation had changed from 1994, when institutional care was the primary service for municipalities of all sizes. Also the service production had become more differentiated and the municipalities had started using more varied ways of production. More municipalities had started producing their own services and private production had increased as well. Furthermore, the increase in local autonomy had opened up possibilities for local politics to influence both the service selection and methods of production. The most significant motive for changes in the service structure was high unemployment and an increasing share of elderly people in the population, particularly in sparsely populated areas. Municipalities with a low level of resources had made more changes in their service organization while those with more resources had been able to carry on as before. Key words: service structure, service for people with intellectual disabilities, municipalities, contingency theory, New Public Management

Conjunctival Melanoma in Finland 1967-2000: a population-based study

Eighty-five new cases of conjunctival melanoma (CM) were diagnosed in Finland between 1967 and 2000. The annual crude incidence of CM was 0.51 per million inhabitants. The average age-adjusted incidence of 0.54 doubled during the study period, analogous to the increase in the incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma during this period, suggesting a possible role for ultraviolet radiation in its pathogenesis. Nonlimbal tumors were more likely than limbal ones to recur and they were associated with decreased survival. Increasing tumor thickness and recurrence of the primary tumor were other clinical factors related to death from CM. The histopathologic specimens of 85 patients with CM melanoma were studied for cell type, mitotic count, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and macrophages, mean vascular density, extravascular matrix loops and networks, and mean diameter of the ten largest nucleoli (MLN). The absence of epithelioid cells, increasing mitotic count and small MLN were associated with shorter time to recurrence according to the Cox univariate regression. None of the histopathologic variables was associated with mortality from CM. Four (5%) patients had a CM limited to the cornea without evidence of a tumor other than primary acquired melanosis of the conjunctiva. Because there are no melanocytes in the cornea, the origin of these melanomas most likely is the limbal conjunctiva. All four corneally displaced CM were limited to the epithelium, and none of the patients developed metastases. An anatomic sub-classification based on my patients and world literature was developed for corneally displaced CM. In 20 patients the metastatic pattern could be determined. Ten patients had initial systemic metastases detected, nine had initial regional metastases, and in one case the two types were detected simultaneously. The patients most likely to develop either type of initial metastases were those with nonlimbal conjunctival melanoma, those with a primary tumor more than 2 mm thick, and those with a recurrent conjunctival melanoma. Approximately two thirds of the patients had limbal CM, a location associated with good prognosis. One third, however, had a primary CM originating outside the limbus. In these patients the chance of developing local recurrences as well as systemic metastases was significantly higher than in patients with limbal CM. Each recurrence accompanies an increased risk of developing metastases, and recurrences contribute to death along with increasing tumor thickness and nonlimbal tumor location. In my data, an equal number of patients with initial locoregional and systemic metastasis existed. Patients with limbal primary tumors less than 2 mm in thickness rarely experienced metastases, unless the tumor recurred. Consequently, the patients most likely to benefit from sentinel lymph node biopsy are those who have nonlimbal tumors, CM that are over 2 mm thick, or recurrent CM. The histopathology of CM differs from that of uveal melanoma. Microvascular factors did not prove to be of prognostic importance, possibly due to the fact that CM at least as often disseminates first to the regional lymph nodes, unlike uveal melanoma that almost always disseminates hematogenously.

Opetussuunnitelmat puntarissa : Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet 2005 ja Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000 kasvatusnäkemyksen ja -ideologian näkökulmasta

The present study compares educational views and ideologies, especially concerning children, childhood and learning, found within two documents guiding early childhood education in Finland, Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet 2005 and Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000. These documents are also available in English, titled The National Curriculum Guidelines on Early Childhood Education and Care in Finland 2000 and The Core Curriculum for Pre-school Education in Finland 2005. The method used in the study was a slightly applied Bereday´s comparative method. Both documents talk of the child as weak but also as active and able to learn and develop. The child was also social, emotional and individual in both documents. In Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet 2005 parents and social networks were emphasised more than in Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000. Views regarding learning were mainly constructive. The aim of Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000 seemed to be in preparing children to adulthood, whereas in Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet 2005 the childhood had an intrinsic value. Applying Davies division, both documents were found to represent mainly romantic ideology, but conservative ideology could also be recognised, especially when the views about children and childhood were under examination. Revisionistic ideology was more apparent in Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000 than in Varhaiskasvatussuunnitelman perusteet 2005, while democratic ideology was more dominant in the latter. Although there was a strong cohesion between these two guiding documents regarding educational views and educational ideologies, there were some traces to be found in Esiopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet 2000 that pointed towards primary school tradition.

Aktivistit vasta- ja valtajulkisuudessa - vastademokratian visuaaliset kehykset aktivistien Internet-sivustoilla ja Helsingin Sanomissa 2000-luvulla

Tarkastelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani sosiaalisten liikkeiden visuaalista vasta- ja valtajulkisuutta vertailemalla aktivistien omia Internet-sivustoja ja Helsingin Sanomia. Tutkimukseni tarkoituksena on tuoda uutta tietoa vastademokraattisen toiminnan ja toimijuuden muotoutumisesta vasta- ja valtajulkisuuksissa ja näiden julkisuuksien välisestä suhteesta paikallistasolla Suomessa. Tutkin, minkälaista vastademokraattista toimintaa sosiaaliset liikkeet tuovat esiin kuvissa omilla Internet-sivustoillaan. Näitä kuvia vertaan samoista tapahtumista julkaistuihin Helsingin Sanomien – valtajulkisuuden – kuviin. Analysoin, minkälaista toimintaa tuodaan esiin ja miten toiminnan esittäminen eroaa aineistojen välillä. Lopuksi tarkastelen vastademokraattisen toimijuuden visuaalisia representaatioita sukupuolen ja iän näkökulmista. Tutkielmani aineistona on kolme aktivistien ylläpitämää uutissivustoa, yksi kansalaisjärjestöjen kuvapankki ja vertailuaineistona Helsingin Sanomat. Aineistossani on kuvia yhteensä 443 ja ne on julkaistu vuosina 2000–2010. Kaikissa kuvissa tapahtumapaikkana on Helsinki. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytän Eeva Luhtakallion soveltamaa Erving Goffmanin kehysanalyysiä, jossa pyritään etsimään aineistolähtöisesti kuvissa esitettyä toimintaa määrittäviä kehyksiä. Teoreettisen lähtökohdan tutkimukselleni muodostavat Pierre Rosanvallonin teoria vastademokratiasta ja Nancy Fraserin määritelmä useasta julkisuudesta. Kuvissa representoidun toiminnan kautta muodostuu kahdeksan eri määräävää kehystä: mielenosoitus, karnevaali, merkintä, valtaus, konflikti, kontrolli, sisäinen toiminta ja tiedotus. Määräävät kehykset kuvaavat aktivistien harjoittamaa vastademokraattista toimintaa ja muiden toimijoiden reaktioita siihen. Mielenosoitus, merkintä, valtaus ja karnevaali kuvaavat erilaisia kollektiivisen protestin muotoja, kontrolli ja konflikti taas tuovat esiin tämän toiminnan seurausta ja eri toimijoiden kohtaamista. Kuvissa näyttäytyy myös liikkeen sisäistä toimintaa ja liikkeestä tiedottamista sinällään ilman varsinaista protestia. Iän kannalta kuvien vastademokraattisesta toiminnasta muotoutui nuorten ja nuorten aikuisten toimintaa. Sukupuolen kannalta toiminta taas osoittautui yllättävän sukupuolittuneeksi: mikäli toimija oli erikseen nostettu valokuvassa esiin, oli tämä useimmiten mies. Miehet olivat toimijoina etenkin liikkeen johdossa ja konfliktin määräävässä kehyksessä. Naisia taas representoitiin vastajulkisuudessa yllättävästi äitiyden kautta. Aktivistiaineistossa ja lehtiaineistossa suhtauduttiin osittain eri tavalla aktivistien toimintaan vaikka kuvat visuaalisesti muistuttivat toisiaan. Tämä ilmeni kuvia ympäröivissä otsikoissa ja kuvateksteissä, jotka vaikuttivat kuvista syntyviin tulkintoihin. Kuvien virittämisessä tekstein liikuttiin hyväksynnästä neutraaliin uutisointiin, siitä taas kohti epäilyttävää toimintaa, josta siirryttiin lopulta toiminnan tuomitsemiseen. Kuvateksteissä välittyi kamppailua vastademokraattisen toiminnan oikeutuksesta: onko kyseessä demokratiaan kuuluvaa kansalaisaktivismia vai yhteiskuntajärjestyksen rikkomista rettelöimällä. Julkisuuksista muodostui visuaalisen kamppailun kenttä, jolla eri toimijat pyrkivät muovaamaan sosiaalisista liikkeistä syntyviä käsityksiä. Sosiaaliset liikkeet ja tiedotusvälineet eivät olekaan tutkielmani perusteella pelkästään toisiaan täydentäviä vastademokraattisia toimijoita, vaan eri julkisuuksien ja vastademokraattisten toimijoiden välillä on sekä legitimiteettikonflikti että määrittelykamppailu: kuka voi esittää kenet ja mistä näkökulmasta.

Kotimaisen 2000-luvun draamaelokuvan ja yhteiskunnallisen todellisuuden suhteesta

Pro gradu -työni käsittelee kotimaisen 2000-luvun draamaelokuvan ja suomalaisen henkisen tilan suhdetta. Lähden liikkeelle Pekka Himasen pohtimasta 2010-luvun suomalaisesta näkymästä ja tarkastelen, millä tavoin kotimainen elokuva suhteutuu siihen: heijasteleeko elokuva sitä todellisuutta, jossa nykyajan kollektiivinen suomalaisuus tulee rakennetuksi? Tarkoitukseni on selvittää, millaiset mahdollisuudet kotimaisella elokuvatarinalla on projektissa, johon Himanen viittaa käsitteellään hyvinvointiyhteiskunta versio 2. Tässä mallissa keskeisellä sijalla on yhteiskunnallinen hyvinvointi korkean kulttuurisen kukoistuksen voimin. Tutkielmassani pohjaan Aristoteleen tarina-analyysiin, jota laajennan uudemman amerikkalaisen perinteen valossa. Dramaturgisten elementtien erittelyn lisäksi hahmotan suuremman kokonaisuuden suomalaisen henkisen kulttuurin tilasta. Sovellan sekä aristoteelisuutta että nykyfilosofien ja -psykologien käsityksiä ajan hengestä kotimaiseen elokuvaan tarina-analyysin keinoin. Analyysissa hahmotan kotimaisesta nykydraamasta yhteiskunnallisesta tilasta kertovia suuntaviivoja. Pohdin, millä tavoin koettu todellisuus tulee elokuvatarinoissa hyödynnetyksi ja millaisia ratkaisumalleja tarinat tarjoavat todellisuuteen kiinnittyvälle katsojalle. Johtopäätöksissä esittelen klassisen kaavan potentiaalia voimauttavan elokuvakokemuksen aikaansaamiseksi. Keskusteluosassa palaan henkisen tilan pohdintaan. Käyn läpi yhteiskunnallisten vaikuttajien arvioita elokuvataiteen nykytilasta ja tulevaisuudesta sekä nostan esiin ajatuksia ydintarinasta. Lopuksi painotan omaa näkemystäni tarinan mahdollisuuksista Himasen visioiman uudenlaisen hyvinvointiyhteiskunnan synnyttämiseksi.

"Miksi lehmät pitää tappaa?" : Etnografinen tutkimus 2000-luvun alun huumemarkkinoista Helsingissä

The present study focuses on the drug market in Helsinki in the early 2000s, mainly on the dealing in and use of amphetamines, cannabis and the pharmaceutical Subutex. The drug market is usually analysed into upper, middle and lower level markets. These levels are very different in terms of their operating practices, although there may be some mingling. The present study is mainly concerned with drug dealers and users in the lower and middle level markets. Operations also differ depending on whether the dealing involves just one drug or several. Dealing in and using Subutex is a very different business from dealing and using home grown cannabis, for instance: both the customers and the dealers are mostly quite different. The study material was mostly collected through ethnographical field work, including observations and interviews. Interviews with officials and minutes of pre-trial investigations concerning aggravated drug crimes are also included. The study discusses the roles of dealers on the various levels of the drug market in Helsinki and traces activities at various levels. Ethnographical methods are employed to observe day-to-day drug dealing and use and leisure pursuits in private homes and in public premises. The study takes note of the risks inherent in drug dealing and estimates what kind of drug dealers can last the longest on the market without the authorities intervening. At the same time, the study discusses how small groups on the middle and lower levels of the drug market avoid control measures undertaken by the authorities and how the authorities address these groups. Moreover, the study discusses what the drug market is like in prison from the perspective of a drug dealer sent to prison, what their everyday lives are like after release, and how much money dealers on various levels of the drug market make. The study demonstrates that drug dealing in Helsinki, whether we consider the very top or the very bottom of the pyramid, is a far from rational pursuit. The undertakings are not very systematic; they are more a reaction to intoxicant addiction( s) and other problems caused by other dealers, the dealers own actions and the actions of the police. The everyday lives of drug dealers are often chaos only alleviated by drug use in the company of buyers or alone. If a drug dealer uses drugs himself/herself, things become even more complicated and a vicious circle develops. At the same time, everyday life is certainly exciting, and a drug dealer often has a highly eventful if brief life. Drug dealing is a very masculine pursuit, and there is a sort of macho code governing it, although this does not nearly always work as it should. This macho code, typically for illegal activities, involves the threat of violence as a control measure. Hence the untranslatable slang expression Kill the cows : the Finnish word for calf has the slang meaning snitch or police informant . No more cows, no more calves. But informing on others to the authorities is a fact of life in the drug-dealing world. Contributing factors to being reported to the authorities are the dealer s own mistakes and the actions of other dealers and the police. A determined drug dealer will not be deterred from drug dealing by a prison sentence. However, following time in prison only few dealers manage to gain an income from drug dealing commensurate with its risks.

Studies on Stone Age Housepits in Fennoscandia (4000 - 2000 cal BC) : Changes in ground plan, site location and degree of sedentism

Housepits have a remarkably short research history as compared to Fennoscandian archaeological research on the Stone Age in general. The current understanding of the numbers and the distribution of Stone Age housepits in the Nordic countries has, for the most part, been shaped by archaeological studies carried out over the last twenty to thirty years. The main subjects of this research are Neolithic housepits, which are archaeological remains of semi-subterranean pithouses. This dissertation consists of five peer-reviewed articles and a synthesis paper. The articles deal with the development of housepits as seen in the data gathered from Finland (the Lake Saimaa area and south-eastern Finland) and Russia (the Karelian Isthmus). This synthesis expands the discussion of the changes observed in the Papers to include Fennoscandian housepit research as a whole. Certain changes in the size, shape, environmental location, and clustering of housepits extended into various cultures and ecological zones in northern Fennoscandia. Previously, the evolution of housepits has been interpreted to have been caused by the adaptation of Neolithic societies to prevailing environmental circumstances or to re-organization following contacts with the agrarian Corded Ware/Battle Axe Cultures spreading to North. This dissertation argues for two waves of change in the pithouse building tradition. Both waves brought with them certain changes in the pithouses themselves and in the practices of locating the dwellings in the environment/landscape. The changes in housepits do not go hand in hand with other changes in material culture, nor are the changes restricted to certain ecological environments. Based on current information, it appears that the changes relate primarily to the spread of new concepts of housing and possibly to new technology, as opposed to representing merely a local response to environmental factors. This development commenced already before the birth of the Corded Ware/Battle Axe Cultures. Therefore, the changes are argued to have resulted from the spreading of new ideas through the same networks that actively distributed commodities, exotic goods, and raw materials over vast areas between the southern Baltic Sea, the north-west Russian forest zone, and Fennoscandia.