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The Ottoman Origins of the Hasidic Kaftan

Iudaica Russica
Scholar Cornelia Aust analyzes the historical connection between the Jewish kaftan and the Polish aristocracy during the 17th and 18th centuries. This article expands on her work to illuminate the significant influence of the Ottoman Empire on Polish ...
Elena Solomon
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Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis, Claudia Williamson Kramer   +1 more
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Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
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„Brotherhood of Blood”. A History of Stanisław Aronson

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013
Based on conversations with the hero, Patrycja Bukalska’s Rysiek z Kedywu. Niezwykłe losy Stanisława Aronsona [Rysiek from Kedyw. Incredible Tribulations of Stanisław Aronson], is an important contribution to the study of Polish-Jewish relations. This is
Wiesław Ratajczak
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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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(...) będę czągał sankie szniegem (...). Głosy dzieci z Domu Sierot

Autobiografia
The purpose of the article is to present excerpts from primary sources from the history of the Orphans' Home. There have been preserved the children’s texts, written down by them or their educators.
Wojciech Lasota
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Pamięć o Zagładzie w perspektywie historyka teatru

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2015
In his Polski teatr Zagłady [The Polish Theater of the Holocaust], Grzegorz Niziołek, who starts with theater and specific theatrical performances and who focuses on artistic phenomena, presents problems that go far beyond art. This is a book that should
Jacek Popiel
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MAKING USE OF ORAL HISTORY IN THE PROCESS OF NARRATING THE POLISH-JEWISH PAST: EXHIBITIONS OF THE GRODZKA GATE – NN THEATRE CENTRE IN LUBLIN

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej, 2020
This article focuses on the role of oral history interviews as sources for narrating as well as enacting the Polish-Jewish past. Special attention is given to two exhibitions: The Portrait of a Place and Lublin: Memory of the Place. Both were prepared by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre, a cultural institution in Lublin.
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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