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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Jewish Modernity in Multiplicity
Belvedere Research JournalIn Central Europe, especially in Poland, in the second half of the 19th century, Jewish artists engaged in a very particular form of nationalist discourse.
Julian Adoff
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Terror, etnicidad y la imagen del judío en el cine argentino contemporáneo
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2010 The frequent representation of Jews and Jewish themes in contemporary Argentine cinema reflects the changes affecting society and culture as a result of neoliberal reforms introduced since the early nineties. Socio-economic and political changes, as well
Tzvi Tal
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Text Recognition Model for Yiddish in 'Vaybertaytsh' Typeface, Based on Community Regulations
Journal of Open Humanities DataWe present a public text recognition PyLaia model accompanied by a baseline model for the layout of community regulations in Yiddish and a dataset for Yiddish texts printed in Vaybertaytsh typeface.
Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow
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Reviews and Interviews / Contributors
Text Matters, 2015 This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in Łódź in April, 2014 as a result of
Norman Ravvin +6 more
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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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Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem
Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
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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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