Portrait of Franz Trolldenier; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"11.4.1889 Franz Trolldenier geb. 5.12.1866"

Portrait of Franz Koch; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"15.8.1896 Franz Koch geb. 14.9.1860 gest. 21.10.1927"

From the Mists of Time 1924-1991

Fragments from a childhood between the wars.

Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection 1772-1930

The collection contains correspondence among members of the Ehrenberg and Rosenzweig families, including letters from Franz Rosenzweig, Adam Rosenzweig and Richard Ehrenberg, as well as with other parties, including Leopold Zunz, Adelheid Zunz, Claire von Gluemer, and Heinrich Heine (copies only). Also included are engagement contracts, marriage banns, school curricula and certificates, character references, eulogies, family histories, and other documents concerning family members. This material also reflects much of the history of the Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel of which members of the Ehrenberg family were principals.

Shanghai Collection 1924 - 1950

The collection relates to life in the ghetto and includes materials on: founding of the ghetto; relief groups such as JDC, ORT, HIAS, and SACRA (Shanghai Ashkenazic Collaborating Relief Association); political organizations such as Zionist groups, the Bund; the rabbinate; the sick and benevolent society; kitchen fund; commercial establishments; religious schools , secular schools; professional associations; art, theater and music activities; Jewish press; emigration from Shanghai after World War II. There are also manuscript histories of the Shanghai Ghetto.

Cyrus Adler papers, undated, 1883-1937.

Primarily correspondence relating to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, the Jewish encyclopedia, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Smithsonian Institution and the American Jewish Historical Society. Contains also correspondence arranged alphabetically including letters from the staff of the American Hebrew, the American Jewish Committee, Theodor Herzl, the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society, the Jewish Publication Society of America, Max J. Kohler, Louis Marshall, Jacob H. Schiff, Oscar S. Straus, Henrietta Szold, Stephen S. Wise and Israel Zangwill. Contains also material on the structure of the Jewish calendar, correspondence relating to the publication of the Jefferson Bible, correspondence and research material concerning Jewish servicemen in the Spanish-American War (published in the American Jewish year book, 1900-1901), a list of ... of the U.S. Congress, material ... immigration, the Jews in Rus ... cript proof articles from the Jewish quarterly review, numerous published articles by and ... Adler, and a large quantity of manuscript notes and material on Jewish history in general and American Jewish history in particular. Includes also David Sulzberger's collected data pertaining to the Jewish population in the United States-1900.

Growth of Jewish Land Settlements in Crimea 1924-1934

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Growth of Jewish land setllements in Crimea 1924-1929

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Temple Israel Boston, Massachusetts collection, 1924-1996

Temple Israel was founded as Congregation Adath Israel in 1854 when a group of German Jews broke from Congregation Ohabei Shalom. The congregation was also known as the Pleasant Street Synagogue. In 1859, the congregation purchased cemetery land in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The synagogue was, and remains, a Reform congregation, and has been home to well known Rabbis, including Joshua Loth Liebman and Roland B. Gittelsohn. This collection contains flyers, newsletters, pamphlets, sermons and a yearbook.

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka On The Shore consists of three simple concrete letterforms floating on a gallery wall. Reminiscent of minimalist sculpture, the mathematical expression of the letterforms states that ‘r’ is greater than ‘g’. Despite this material simplicity, the solemn presentation of the formula suggests a sense of foreboding, a quiet menace. The work was created as a response to the economic theories of Thomas Piketty presented in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The primary finding of Piketty’s data-driven research is the formula presented by the work; that historically, wealth and inequity both flourish when the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate of economic growth (g). With this simple mathematical summary the book acts as a sobering indictment on the present state of economic inequality.

Review of 'Kafka Dances'

Review of Timothy Daly's new Australian play, 'Kafka Dances' in Australasian Drama Studies

La recepción de Franz Liszt en Rusia: entre los mitos stasovianos y las composiciones modernistas

Resumen: Este trabajo explora los diferentes modos en los cuales la figura y la obra de Franz Liszt fueron recepcionadas en la Rusia del siglo XIX por teóricos y compositores. A partir de las visitas que el compositor húngaro realizó a Rusia durante la década de 1840, su figura fue utilizada por el crítico Vladimir Stasov para caracterizar y legitimizar a través de un relato cargado de mitos la tradición musical que recién nacía en Rusia. Esta imagen condicionó y limitó durante casi todo el siglo XX el acercamiento al estudio de la música de ese país. La obra de los compositores modernistas en Rusia, sin embargo, demuestra que la recepción de Liszt, y así el devenir de la música rusa del siglo XIX, estuvo bastante lejos de la caracterización canónica propuesta por Stasov.

El ideal de justicia en la cultura

Introducción: En el medio social existen numerosas manifestaciones culturales en torno a la justicia, ideal supremo de la convivencia armónica y pacífica. Diversas imágenes, literarias y artísticas, representan ese valor permanente de la humanidad. Páginas hermosas, no exentas de poesía, han sido escritas para describirla, pues todo gran pensador le ha dedicado un libro o una simple línea. Recordemos a escritores que legaron a la humanidad mensajes sublimes, como Cervantes, Shakespeare y Montaigne. Al nombre de esos geniales creadores se deben añadir los de Charles Dickens, León Tolstoi, Bertolt Brecht y Arthur Miller, quienes elevaron la prosa a su máximo lucimiento. De quien más se habla en nuestros días es del checo Franz Kafka, autor que describió en su obra El proceso la angustia de los justiciables. Un género literario algo olvidado es la oratoria forense, siendo su precursor el griego Demóstenes, brillante expositor de las defensas que asumió como abogado, entre otras las de su propio padre...

Nacionalidad e inmigración en el pensamiento de Estanislao Zeballos (1883-1912)

Resumen: Estanislao Zeballos (1854-1923), fue un prominente periodista, abogado y político argentino que publicó una serie de artículos y libros sobre varios temas relevantes: los indios araucanos, las colonias agrícolas de la provincia de Santa Fe, la cuestión del ius sanguinis-ius solis, y el impacto de la inmigración europea en la Argentina. Como otros hombres públicos contemporáneos de su país, Zeballos creía en el proyecto de una nueva nación construida por los inmigrantes. Sin embargo, sus preocupaciones giraron también en torno a los problemas que suponía una sociedad multicultural y los intentos por reconstruir un sentido de identidad nacional.