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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Les vitraux pour Jérusalem de Chagall : expositions et réception
Interfaces, 2019 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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An American Golem: Comic Books, Creation, and the Virtue of Escape in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis examines Michael Chabon’s defense of escapist stories as manifested in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000).
McAllister, Mary
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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Teatry żydowskie w Warszawie między wojnami (1918–1939)
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1992 Although Jewish theatre in Warsaw can be considered to date back to David Hellin’s theatre, operating in 1837, it had not flourished until the late 19th century.
Edward Krasiński
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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AM: Art + Media, 2017 This paper attempts to illustrate the role the municipal authorities in Šabac, which were headed by wartime mayor Branko Petrović, and which were part of Milan Aćimović’s collaborationist administration and Milan Nedić’s government, played in the process
Sanja Petrović Todosijević
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Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere : Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries [PDF]
, 2005 Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ramon Llull understood the need of actually engaging with the beliefs of his Jewish and Muslim contemporaries, rather than just with their texts, if he wanted to attain their conversion to Christianity.
Hames, Harvey
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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Pouvoir de la parole, parole du pouvoir
Yod, 2015 This paper discusses the term Logic as defined by several Jewish authors and thinkers in medieval Spain, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera, Zerahiah ben Shealtiel from Barcelona, Profiat Duran and others, as ...
Moisés Orfali
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