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"Over the next few decades, immersive media could fundamentally change the ways humans engage in entertainment, communication, and social interaction. The current volume takes a step towards understanding this potential paradigm shift, combining insights from pioneers of the field of ‘presence’ with bright young scholars who bring a new perspective." —Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University, USA "This book provides an indispensable contribution to scholars in communication studies, computer science and psychology interested in the modes of being present in different media, and offers a careful historical and theoretical framework to the state-of-the-art research."—Anna Spagnolli, Unive...
John Atwood came to America in 1635, settling in Plymouth, Mass.
Annual supplement to the Dictionary catalog of the Teachers College Library, Columbia University and its 1st-3rd supplements.
Although recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb, Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a “Jewish perspective”, creating complex and psychological portrayals of the heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism movement.
Johann Christhofer Dittman (b.1803) married Catrine Christine Nørgaard in the late 1830s, lived in Kaldrup and Lerte, Denmark, and had three daughters (the first lived, married and died in Denmark, the other two married and immigrated to Jackson County, Iowa. Some descendants of the first daughter also immigrated to Jackson County, Iowa. Des- cendants lived in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida and elsewhere. Includes some descendants in Denmark.
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