Conferencias centroamericanas, 1909-1914 : seguido de un apéndice que comprende los últimos tratados y convenciones celebrados por El Salvador con datos sobre la vigencia internacional de ellos

Reunidos los países centroamericanos: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa-Rica, con el deseo de promover la unificación y armonía de sus intereses, como uno de los medios más eficaces para preparar la fusión de los pueblos centroamericanos en una sola nacionalidad, acordaron celebrar una Convención para el nombramiento de Comisiones y para la reunión de Conferencias Centroamericanas, que acuerden las medidas más oportunas y convenientes a fin de uniformar sus intereses económicos y fiscales

La Celestina en escena (1909-2012)

Como arte espectacular, cuyos productos son comunicados en el espacio y en el tiempo, el teatro requiere de un método de análisis focalizado tanto en el texto literario como en la puesta en escena; como práctica social y cultural, es también necesario comprender sus ámbitos de producción y recepción. Es por ello que la investigación académica en el ámbito del patrimonio teatral clásico español debe atender también a la historia y particularidades de su puesta en escena, no solamente en el período en que el texto vio la luz, sino también en épocas posteriores. En concreto, el estudio de su representación en los siglos XX y XXI es parcela todavía escasamente explorada. A pesar de que el género de La Celestina es aún hoy objeto de debate, la obra de Rojas se ha convertido desde el montaje de 1909 de la compañía Oliver-Cobeña (hasta el momento no se tiene noticia certera de representaciones de la trama completa anteriores a dicha versión) en uno de los clásicos con mayor presencia en las tablas a lo largo del siglo XX y en estos inicios del XXI. Si joven es la vida escénica de la obra de Rojas, el estudio de la misma está aún en pañales. A pesar de que contamos con algunos trabajos breves de relieve y con la importante y continuada atención al asunto dispensada por la revista Celestinesca, carecemos hasta la fecha de un trabajo extenso que aborde el tema en toda su complejidad, atendiendo a los múltiples factores en juego y elementos de la puesta en escena. En este trabajo nos proponemos reconstruir la presencia escénica de La Celestina en España en esta última centuria, desde una perspectiva integral que busca tener en cuenta tanto las principales características que asume la elaboración de las adaptaciones y montajes, como los contextos de producción y recepción de los mismos. La complejidad que presenta el estudio de la puesta en escena y la falta de consenso entre los investigadores a la hora de establecer un modelo fructífero de análisis han determinado que el primer capítulo se dedique a discutir los principales problemas que afronta quien decide acercarse al mundo de la representación de los clásicos en general y de La Celestina en particular. De esta manera, se abordan temas como el concepto de fidelidad y la relación entre texto dramático y representación, y entre texto original y adaptado. También se ofrece un breve repaso por la historia de la investigación sobre puesta en escena para justificar la metodología elegida para el caso de la obra de Rojas...

Benefit cost analysis applied to behavioral and engineering safety countermeasures in San Francisco, California

The state of the practice in safety has advanced rapidly in recent years with the emergence of new tools and processes for improving selection of the most cost-effective safety countermeasures. However, many challenges prevent fair and objective comparisons of countermeasures applied across safety disciplines (e.g. engineering, emergency services, and behavioral measures). These countermeasures operate at different spatial scales, are funded often by different financial sources and agencies, and have associated costs and benefits that are difficult to estimate. This research proposes a methodology by which both behavioral and engineering safety investments are considered and compared in a specific local context. The methodology involves a multi-stage process that enables the analyst to select countermeasures that yield high benefits to costs, are targeted for a particular project, and that may involve costs and benefits that accrue over varying spatial and temporal scales. The methodology is illustrated using a case study from the Geary Boulevard Corridor in San Francisco, California. The case study illustrates that: 1) The methodology enables the identification and assessment of a wide range of safety investment types at the project level; 2) The nature of crash histories lend themselves to the selection of both behavioral and engineering investments, requiring cooperation across agencies; and 3) The results of the cost-benefit analysis are highly sensitive to cost and benefit assumptions, and thus listing and justification of all assumptions is required. It is recommended that a sensitivity analyses be conducted when there is large uncertainty surrounding cost and benefit assumptions.

The Municipal Budgetary Response to Changing Labor Costs: The Case of San Francisco

"This paper analyzes how expenditures of the city of San Francisco were altered in response to changes in municipal labor costs over the period 1945 through 1976. A hybrid of the "demands" and the "organizational" models of budgeting is used to measure the budgetary response to changes in the relative prices of labor inputs. Descriptive and econometric evidence reveals significant adjustments both among and within departments in reaction to changes in relative labor costs. The empirical evidence demonstrates that the city's budgetary process is guided by simple allocative rules modified by price-responsive adjustments."

Rabbi Leo Baeck's arrival at La Guardia Airport, New York from London for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations American Jewish Cavalcade Portraits; Groups

Sitting l-r Leo Baeck, Maurice N. Eisendrath, Oscar M. Lazrus; Standing l-r Jane Evans, Henry W. Levy, Saul Elgart, Rabbi Daniel L. Davis, Louis Rittenberg and Leonard H. Spring

Rabbi Leo Baeck's arrival at La Guardia Airport, New York from London for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations American Jewish Cavalcade Portraits; Groups

Sitting l-r Leo Baeck, Maurice N. Eisendrath, Oscar M. Lazrus; Standing l-r Jane Evans, Henry W. Levy, Saul Elgart, Rabbi Daniel L. Davis, Louis Rittenberg and Leonard H. Spring

Leo Baeck arriving at La Guardia Airport, New York Portraits; Men

Page 65 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Leo Baeck arriving at La Guardia Airport, New York Portraits; Men

Page 64 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

David Frischmann (1859-1922) and Chaim Nachman Bialik(1873-1934) in conversation.

( 1862-1945 ) b. Odessa. Pasternak was a prominent Moscow artist, who emigrated to Berlin in 1921, the same year as the Hebrew poet Bialik.

Board of Delegates of American Israelites records 1859-1881, 1887, 1932

Contains printed copies of the 1860 constitution and by-laws, copies of proceedings and annual reports, 1859-1877, of the Board of Delegates; report on Jews in Roumania, an 1874 annual report of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, manuscript minute books and minutes of meetings, 1859-1876, resolutions, executive, financial, ritual slaughtering and other special committee reports, newspaper clippings and correspondence with synagogues and organizations in the U.S. who constitute the membership of the Board of Delegates, with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations with whom they later merged, the Union's Board of Delegates of Civil and Religious Rights, and with individuals and organizations in foreign countries including the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the Anglo-Jewish Association, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Committee for the Roumanian Jews (Berlin), the Koenigsberg Committee, and the London Roumanian Committee.

Solis-Cohen family papers, 1808-1990.

Correspondence, diaries, acount books, pamphlets, and other personal and professional materials pertaining to Jacob da Silva Solis and his descendents.

Max James Kohler papers, 1888-1934.

Contains scrapbooks, correspondence and reports relating to Kohler's extensive activities on behalf of liberal immigration and naturalization laws in the United States, his opposition to the registration of aliens, the problems of Chinese immigration to the United States, his opposition to the use of the term "Hebrew Race" in the classification of immigrants, the drafting of minority clauses at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Jewish and Christian relations in the U.S., and the condition of Jews in Russia, Roumania, Poland and Nazi-Germany with the following institutions: the American Civil Liberties Union, 1926-1934, the American Jewish Committee, 1909-1934, B'nai Brith, 1930-1933, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations - Board of Delegates on Civil Rights, the Committee on Ellis Island, the Foreign Language Information Service, the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Baltimore, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, the Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Texas, the Industrial Removal Office, the National Conference of Jews and Christians, the National Council of Jewish Women, the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship, the Bureau of Immigration to the United States Department of Laborm the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, the Department of State and individual United States Congressmen.

Congregation Ohabei Shalom Brookline, Massachusetts collection, undated, 1909-1991

Temple Ohabei Shalom was founded on February 26, 1843 by several Boston Jewish families, and is the first synagogue established in Massachusetts. After meeting in the homes of both a founding congregant and the first elected Rabbi, Abraham Saling, Ohabei Shalom dedicated its first building on Warren (now Warrenton) Street in Boston in 1852. In 1855, the German Jewish congregants left Ohabei Shalom and founded Congregation Adath Israel (now Temple Israel in Boston.) The Polish Jewish congregants maintained the name Ohabei Shalom and the cemetery land in East Boston. In 1858, East Prussian Jews also left the congregation, forming Die Israelitische Gemeinde Mishkan Israel (now Miskhan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.) This collection contains flyers, programs and tickets for events as well as copies of bulletins and newsletters, such as Brotherhood Bulletin, Stars and Stripes, Temple Bulletin and Temple Tidings.