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W lustrze pamięci – problemy żydowskiej literatury autobiograficznej
Autobiografia, 2017 This article is an introduction to Jewish autobiographical literature. Basing her premises on a canonical text by Georges Gusdorf, the author undermines, in the spirit of post-colonialism, his Christianity-centered perception of the foundations of the ...
Joanna Lisek
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Aging in Nationhood: Everyday Nationalism and Belonging Among Seniors in Old‐Age Homes in Québec
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.ABSTRACT Scholars of aging and nationalism rarely engage with each another. To remedy this gap, I examine how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of aging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two private senior residences in a region of Québec, I show how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through ...
Jessica Stallone
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Leib Malach’s Montreal Travelogue, 1930
Canadian Jewish Studies, 2022 In mid-1930, the Yiddish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, and world traveller Leib Malach visited Montreal to attend the dedication of a new home for the Jewish Public Library.
Zachary M. Baker
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Humanities, 2019 This article uses two examples of postwar German Jewish literature to explore the way in which these literary reflections on fictionality can also serve to subvert and complicate the national narratives that were developed in East and West Germany.
Emma Woelk
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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Unterzakhn, Dirty Laundry, and the Map of Lost New York: An Interview with Leela Corman
European Journal of American Studies, 2015 This interview with cartoonist Leela Corman took place shortly after the publication of her graphic novel Unterzakhn. In the interview, she describes what it means to her to be a Jewish American cartoonist – where her book fits into that tradition, how ...
Jaime Cleland
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How the Dominant Reading Direction Changes Parafoveal Processing: A Combined EEG/Eye‐Tracking Study
Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Reading directions vary across writing systems. Through long‐term experience, readers adjust their visual systems to the dominant reading direction in their writing systems. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these adjustments because different writing systems do not just differ in reading direction, but also in ...
Xin Huang +6 more
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Canadian Jewish StudiesChaim Kruger (1877–1933) was born in Lithuania, educated in Lithuanian yeshivas, and became a personality of some importance in the Montreal Jewish community after his emigration to Canada in 1907.
Ira Robinson
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El judaísmo en la obra de Sergio Chejfec: escribir desde una cultura ausente
Cuadernos LIRICO, 2019 In his first novel (Lenta Biografia) Chejfec told the story of an unsuccessful transmission of the familial memory and of the Ashquenazi culture. He then dealt with the progressive disappearance of the Jewish traditions and culture within the immigrant ...
Benoît Coquil
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