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A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology, mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and adaptation through ongoing interactions with the social environment.
Ana Gómez-Carrillo +3 more
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Warsaw and Yiddish: Europe’s Once Largest Jewish City
Wortfolge, 2022 Prior to the Katastrofe (Yiddish for ‘Holocaust’), Warsaw was the world’s capital of Yiddishland, or the Ashkenazic civilization of Yiddish language and culture.
Tomasz Dominik Kamusella
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Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2022 The Frenkel family was famous in Lithuania not only as major manufacturers but also as generous benefactors. They honourably fulfilled the duty of a wealthy Jew to provide charity and social assistance to those most in need. The Frenkel family was forced
Preišegalavičienė Lina
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Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2019 With the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the early 20th century, and a Hebrew culture with it, furious debates arose among Jewish writers about the future of Jewish literary multilingualism.
Melissa Weininger
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How Jewish Refugee Critics Changed British Literary Criticism, 1970–2020
Humanities, 2020 During the mid- and late 20th century, a small group of Jewish refugee critics changed the way British culture thought about what kind of literature mattered and why.
David Herman
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Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej, 2012 Despite the fact that there are more and more contemporary academic publications on the subject of oral history understood as an element of research technique, as a separate research technique or as a specific theoretical and methodological approach ...
Marta Kubiszyn
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In the place of sanctity. Religious eminence in Jewish tradition [PDF]
OculaThe concept of holiness is among the religious innovations brought by Christianity. In Hebrew there is a word (kadòsh) that normally translates as holy, but its usage is noticeably different, as it applies mostly to deities or entities such as the Land ...
Ugo Volli
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Is cultural logic an appropriate concept? A semiotic perspective on the study of culture and logic
Sign Systems Studies, 2002 It is argued that (a) the question of ‘cultural logic’ is a valid inquiry for disciplines seeking to comprehend and compare mental processes across cultures, and (b) semiotics, as the science of studying signs and signification, is an appropriate means ...
Sadeq Rahimi
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Musicology Today, 2014 The world of the Jews must have attracted Kolberg, who as an educated member of the intelligentsia must have been conscious of what was happening in Judaism in his times.
Muszkalska Bożena
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Gendered Historiography: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2019 The essays in this collection each expand the possibilities of biblical historical-critical scholarship with a focus on textual representations of gendered systems and their implications for understanding the social, political, cultural, and religious ...
Shawna Dolansky +5 more
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