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Keywords: Jewish Masculinity, New York Intellectuals
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Keywords: Venice Jews, Venice Ghetto
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Keywords: Jewish memoir, Zionism, family history
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AbstractRural Canadian communities underwent profound changes as they adapted to the economic and social context after World War II. Those changes, may be described, using John Shaver's phrase, as a "Great Disjuncture". From a "centrist" point-of-view Canadian farms became more fully mechanized, products commodified and farm goals integrated with government policy. This paper focuses on the "local experience" of the "Great Disjuncture". Its subject is the Rural Municipality of Hanover in Manitoba, an ethnic community, dominated by Low German-speaking Mennonites. In Hanover traditional social relations, both on the primary level affecting gender and on the community level affecting the very idea of rurality, entered a dialectical relationship with the forces for change to create a particular localized culture. Here was an instance of cultural re-creation.
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In his film Invincible, the German director, Werner Herzog presents the legend of Zishe Breibart, a Jew with superhuman strength. According to the author, the dramatic elements of the images filmed by Herzog and the original music of the film created by Hans Zimmer together serve to enhance the heroic dimension of the actor and call Wagnerian opera to mind. After comparing the composition process of the music in the film and post-Romantic writing, the article does a comparative analysis of the music and the pictures to illustrate how the music in the film provides focused support for the Wagnerian myth. Finally, the article describes in detail the repercussions of the subterfuge presented by Herzog, which turns a Jew into a national hero at the dawn of the Nazi era.
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This article uses the photographic examples from a small female college to explore the use of photography as a social practice in late Victorian female colleges. It argues that photographs of students worked as both frames and surfaces: framing the visual details of their daily lives, while simultaneously allowing them a surface on which to fashion self-portraits. The photographs of Hellmuth Ladies' College demonstrate the multiple arenas of late Victorian educational experience, the idealistic and aesthetic links between female educational institutions in the circum-Atlantic World, and the importance of school photographs to Canada's photographic history.
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