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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
wiley   +1 more source

‘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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Book Review: Russia Abroad: An Anthology of Modern Philosophical Thought

, 2020
“In September and November 1922, two ‘philosophical steamboats-‘ – the “Oberburgomaster Haken” and the “Prussia”- transported about 160 people from the Soviet city of Petrograd to the German city of Stettin.
Chumakov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
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"Sometimes I feel that this is the Russia we had always dreamed of..." : transnationalism and capitalism ; migrants from the former Soviet Union and their experiences in Germany; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main [PDF]

, 2006
The present article explores perceptions and cultural constructions of the terms capitalism or capitalistic West among ex-Soviet, highly qualified Jewish migrants from Russia and Ukraine after their emigration to Germany between 1990 and 1996.
Bernstein, Julia
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Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova, Filip Kostelka, Nicolas Sauger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formation of Russian scientific international legal community in Berlin (20 years of XX century)

RUDN Journal of Law, 2014
The article analyzes the legal thought of the Russian emigration in Germany in the 20 years of XX century. It also deals with the publishing activities of the Russian emigration, investigates writings of Russian emigrants written in Russian in Berlin and
G S Starodubtsev
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Editions of Works by A.S. Pushkin in the Russian Abroad (1917–1988): To the 225^th Anniversary of his Birth

Библиосфера
For the first time, the history of publication of works by A.S. Pushkin is restored in Russian Abroad. The chronology of the periods of publications of the poet in emigration is reconstructed. There, the works of A.S.
P. N. Bazanov
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HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LAW IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF EMIGRATION IN PRAGUE AND BERLIN IN THE 1920S

Вестник Брянского государственного университета, 2022
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of teaching one of the most important academic disciplines in the training of a lawyer — the history of Russian law in educational institutions of the Russian emigration of the first wave. The level of teaching
Mikhalchenko S.I., Tkachenko E.V., Ustinova Yu. N.   +2 more
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“Matters of past days...” in the context of “The Street of Generals” by Anatoly Gladilin [PDF]

, 2018
In the article the artistic work and silhouette of a forgotten Russian emigrant, Anatoly Gladilin, are both researched. He was a representative of the third wave of Russian emigration and the author of The Street of Generals. In the so-called Soviet text
Mianowska, Joanna
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Individualism and working from home

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We show that culturally transmitted individualism is an important determinant of working from home (WFH). Using individual‐level data from the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we compare immigrants and their descendants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location.
Jan Bietenbeck, Natalie Irmert, Therese Nilsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source