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AbstractThis article interprets the career of the Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, in English translation. Involved is an understanding of the emotional and linguistic impact of the Haskala or “Jewish Enlightenment” on Polish Jewisk life as well as of the other ideologies confronting Jewry—Socialism, Zionism and Hassidic Return, for example. Involved also is a just evaluation of the linguistic achievements of Singer's translators, especially Jacob Sloan, Cecil Hemley, Elaine Gottlieb, Saul Bellow and Isaac Rosenfeld, all of whom have a creative identity with a thematic and stylistic influence on translation quality. An attempt is likewise made to demonstrate Singer's transcendence of his rabbinical past and of his refuge in the United States.
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More than a hundred Jewish loan societies were founded in Montreal between 1911 and 1945. Their emergence corresponds with crucial circumstances in the development of this cultural community. The form that these societies took and the diversity apparent in their orientations also reflect class differences and ideological ruptures present in it. These societies, the majority of which were credit cooperatives, tended to multiply at the moment when the caisses populaires Desjardins were taking off across Quebec. This parallel situation forces us to consider these Jewish institutions in a larger context and to raise the issue of the links that the two movements might have had between themselves.
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AbstractThis article deals with the subjective/figurative use of toponyms and anthroponyms in English, French and German. The author describes the phenomenon and provides trilingual lexicons with explanations and equivalents.
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This paper seeks to explain Reich's use of the "speech melody" technique in his video opera The Cave in terms of the minimalist reliance on impersonal processes and the economical use of musical material. For this piece Reich uses digitally sampled speech fragments with an emphatic melodic contour as the basis for composition. These speech melodies provide the primary building blocks out of which the work is constructed. Because the musical material is actually contained in the verbal material, Reich is able to provide innovative solutions to some of the traditional problems facing the composer of vocal music. This technique not only enables Reich to reintroduce a compelling expressive element into his work, but also enables him to reconcile the composer's search for rigorously autonomous musical structures with his documentary interest in the subjective concerns and social problems of the outside world.
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There is no standard definition of empathy, but the concept is assumed to be innately pro-social and teachable regardless of factors such as power dynamics or other manifestations of social injustice within a society. Such assumptions in discursive practices, whether academic, popular, or pedagogical, obscure the emergence of two important questions: What does it mean when we cannot empathize with another? And could it be that we may gain greater insight from the examination of empathy’s limits and failures than the hopes we have for its success? Through an exploration of some of Edith Stein’s and Judith Butler’s work on the subject, I propose that discussions of empathy, particularly in education, must be grounded in social context. Once this is done, assumptions about empathy must be continually troubled if one is to have a cogent conversation—whether as a philosopher, social theorist, educator, or policy maker—about what empathy is (or is not) and what it does (or does not) make possible.
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This paper examines the links between Western music, Western metaphysics, and Western imperialism. Taking Derrida's reading of "White Mythology" and "Violence and Metaphysics" as its point of departure, the paper explores the relationship between the theories and practices of musical composition formalized in Europe in the eighteenth and finalized in the nineteenth century, and the theories and practices of race, racial differentiation, and empire that coincide(d) with it.
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During the Second World War, the British Secret Intelligence Service recruited more than thirty Yugoslav-Canadians to infiltrate the Balkans and liaise with resistance groups there as members of the Special Operations Executive. These men were immigrants and political radicals. Most were members of the Communist Party of Canada. Five had fought in the Spanish Civil War. They lived marginalized lives in Canada, were subject to police harassment and at risk of deportation. Yet their recruitment into an organization run by the British ruling class took place with the enthusiastic cooperation of the Communist Party of Canada. The party, and the recruits themselves, recognized that they shared with the British and Canadian governments a desire to fight fascism in Yugoslavia, and that, despite their divergent political ideologies, this common goal justified close and focused collaboration.
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Over the last decade, various studies have examined Adrien Arcand's fascist and anti-semitic papers, as well as the movement he led, which attracted a few hundred followers in Quebec during 1930s. Yet little has been written about Arcand's international influence. In the 1930s, he built up a solid reputation among champions of anti-Semitism around the world by actively participating in the distribution of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and by publishing The Key to the Mystery, a highly anti-Semitic brochure that aimed to prove the authenticity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Arrested in 1940, Arcand was detained for the remainder of the Second World War. From his release in 1945 until his death in 1967, he continued to correspond with the world's leading anti-Semites : Henry Hamilton Beamish, Arnold Spencer Leese, Sir Barry Domville, Gerald Hamilton, Robert Edmundson, and Henry Coston. His most famous admirer, the German-Canadian Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, who was deported from Canada in 2002 to serve a seven-year prison sentence in Germany, considered Arcand to be his mentor.
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We all have a sense of evil, but many of us do not ponder its nature or the ways in which our beliefs about evil shape what we teach and learn about the actions of citizens in historical or contemporary times. We argue that the word and concept of evil can be detrimental to the development of good citizens when it is used as a political and educational shibboleth to shut down critical thought about traumatic historical and contemporary events. Read through the work of Hannah Arendt and Alain Badiou, however, a pedagogical engagement with our understandings of evil offers an opportunity to learn from difficult events in a way that might inform contemporary action towards a less violent future.