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The Bedouin and Jewish inhabitants of the southern Israeli desert region share a common desert vista. However, they are diverse, multicultural communities who suffer inequity in access to valuable resources such as water.
Irit Carmon Popper
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Modernism, antisemitism and Jewish identity in the writing and publishing of John Rodker [PDF]
This thesis examines the relationship between the English Jewish writer and publisher John Rodker and the modernism of the Pound circle. Previous considerations of the antisemitism of Ezra Pound and T. S.
Williams, Dominic Paul
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„Exotische Kunst“ – Undurchsichtige Geschäfte 1934-1945
Due to innovative exhibition concepts in Budapest, Hagen and Prague, German art dealers presented since 1913 non-European art from Africa and Oceania in a dialogue with modern art and they benefited from a close network to Paris dealers.
Nils Fiebig
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Looking for Yiddishland: Galicia in the Interwar Yiddish Travelogues
Since the end of the eighteenth century, writers, philosophers, and politicians of various ethnic and social backgrounds discovered and rediscovered Austrian Galicia.
Moskalets, V
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Les vitraux pour Jérusalem de Chagall : expositions et réception
In the summer of 1961, Marc Chagall exhibited in Paris twelve stained glass windows designed for the four walls of the Hadassah Medical Center synagogue in Jerusalem.
Christel Scheftsik Naujoks
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