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Jewish settlement in Chrudim and surroundings [PDF]

, 2012
However the Jews were present in Chrudim already from the time of Přemysl Otakar II., their presence there was rather a rare phenomenon untill half of the 19-th century, when, due to the legislative changes, the Jews were given new opportunities and ...
Vaněk, Daniel
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Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt : A time-travelling journey to Eastern Europe (and back)

Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, 2018
In this article, I describe a journey my sister Rebecca and I made in 2012 to Eastern Europe, part diasporic return/roots journey and part artistic residency, during which we developed artworks in the form of ritual, performative practices with bread ...
Katy, Beinart
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Tripartite cooperation in pursuing and killing Jews [PDF]

, 2006
Hungarians, Croats, and Germans were collectively responsible for the expelling from their homes of entire Jewish families, residents of the townships of Temerin, Čurug and the surrounding villages of the Bačka district in Yugoslavia, marching them under
Loker, Zvi
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The Jewish farmer, the village and the world fair: politics, propaganda, and the “Israel in Palestine” pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937 [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2019
At the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, a few steps from the Nazi Germany and USSR pavilions theYishuv(Palestine's Jewish Zionist community) had its own presence, the “Israel in Palestine” pavilion. Initiated by the Zionist leadership, the pavilion was a hybrid construct of modernist and traditional architecture; its front was made from concrete
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at Hadassah's Youth Aliyah Conference

, 1957
Eleanor Roosevelt's speech already in progress at start of tape. She talks about the economic strain on Israelis, and on her return two days earlier from an inspection tour of Youth Aliyah schools in Morocco, on the political and economic situation in ...
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Youth Aliyah children singing, in class and at services, includes Ramat Hadassah Szold and Yemin Orde Youth Aliyah children's villages

, 1960
Children speaking in Hebrew and their native languages, including French and Arabic. Singing perhaps takes place in a Hebrew class. Further singing takes place at Ramat Hadassah Szold, Yemin Orde with drums and possibly dancing with religious service in ...
Jewish Agency for IsraelYouth Aliyah Dept
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

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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