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The present study argues for the usefulness of searching for factors outside of the sub-system of industrial relations as partial causes of stike activity. It treats the industrial relations sub-system as an internal part of the overall social System, in which strikes are regarded as expressions of generalized social tension, i.e., as safety-valve institutions.
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Before the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church considered the Jewish people to have committed deicide ; in the Church's eyes, they were condemned and cursed by God. After this event, it gave up what was called “Replacement Theology,” engaged in dialogue, asserted the permanency of God's choice of Israel, and considered Jews as “elder brothers.” In this article, the author explores the role of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion in the evolution of the way in which the Catholic Church has viewed Jews and Judaism. This role has brought about a theological rethinking and a change of mindset, which led, more or less directly, to the declaration Nostra Aetate of the Second Vatican Council.
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In his books, Philip Roth could be seen to tell of a quest for a lost history that would weave individuals back into their time and place. Roth addresses two outstanding issues : what it means to be a Jew, and the true nature of an American identity where heroism hinges on conformity and the status quo, and where one turns to one's faith to find solace. Indeed, Jews living in America today are disconnected from the historic sufferings that made their people, regardless of religious or spiritual considerations. Roth might be seen as narrating the transition between the chains of yesteryear to today's freedom, redefining his characters' identities in the process.
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This article analyzes the concept of ethnicity in the JewishAmericanlesbian novel. Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues and Sarah Schulman's Empathy illustrate the imaginary links between being jewish and being lesbian. The novel seems the privileged platform whence articulating and affirming a dual marginalized identity is possible. The question raised in this paper is one of identity : what difference is there between being jewish and belonging to a jewish community or a jewish past ?