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Jewish Folktales from Morocco
Seha, the traditional wise man-fool in Jewish Morocco is a popular fictional hero in simple yet rich tales, playful yet witty enough to provide life lessons with commitment to social fairness and mutual respect. In this collection of tales, the authors introduce readers to their grandparents and the teaching they imparted. Through humorous Seha tales, the authors transmit deeply engrained Jewish values, accentuated in accompanying socio-historical commentaries which shed light on the evolution of Seha as a popular fictional hero as well as on processes of social change and modernization experienced by Moroccan Jews, who were influenced by movements in three nations that impact their identity, namely Israel, France, and Morocco.
The Real Dope
In The Real Dope, Edgar-Andre Montigny brings together leading scholars from a diverse range of fields to examine the relationship between moral judgment and legal regulation in the debate surrounding the potential decriminalization of marijuana.
Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book
Reflections on A New Mexican Crypto-Jewish Song Book offers close examinations of a manuscript written over a 20-year period by Loggie Carrasco, a well-known crypto-Jew from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The manuscript includes a wide range of genres: folklore, memory, ritual practices, genealogy, and most significantly poetry and songs. Although the manuscript remains unpublished, this book utilizes quotations and excepts to enable the reader to have a good understanding of Carrasco’s voice. Focusing on the main genres and themes that shape Carrasco’s manuscripts, the contributors argue that the work is both unique and illustrative of the vitality of crypto-Jewish culture and contemporary understandings of it.
Generation on Hold
At last, a book about a group that's been sorely neglected, those who have come of age in an advanced industrial society in the late 20th century. Looks at facets such as education, youth unemployment and crime, family structure, and personal aspirations, using a multidisciplinary approach. Discusses the prolongation of youth resulting from industrialization and legislation, economic disenfranchisement and the new service worker, and youth targeted as consumers of the media, music, fashion, and education industries. Offers a model of coming of age in Sweden. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Francophone Sephardic Fiction
Francophone Sephardic Fiction:Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative way to draw out similarities and differences among selected francophone novelists from various countries, with a focus on North Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just Spain: it embraces Jews whose ancestors had lived in North Africa for centuries, even before the arrival of Islam, and who still today trace their allegiance to ways of being Jewish that go back to Babylon, as do those whose ancestors spent a few hundred years in Iberia. The author traces the strong influence of oral storytelling on modern novelists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explores the idea of the portable homeland, as exile and migration engulfed the long-rooted Sephardic communities. The author also examines diaspora concepts, how modernity and post-modernity threatened traditional ways of life, and how humor and an active return into history for the novel have done more than mere nostalgia could to enliven the portable homeland of modern francophone Sephardic fiction.
Global Habit
An in-depth study of the complex forces propelling and shaping the global drug market, assessing the direction it is likely to take in the future, and calling for a new approach to international drug control policies.
Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Canadians
This report focuses on consumption of alcohol and other drugs by Canadians aged 15 and over, related behaviour, and consequences. The survey was carried out by statistics Canada on behalf of Health and Welfare Canada in March 1989. In total, 11,634 Canadians 15 years of age and over participated in the survey. Respondents were asked a broad array of questions about their use of alcohol and other drugs, the extent of use, patterns of use, and the circumstances and settings associated with use. Questions addressed health, social and economic problems arising from the misuse of alcohol and illicit, prescription, and over- the-counter drugs, and they were asked what could be done to prevent such problems.
The Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs by Older Canadians and Its Consequences
This report summarizes a survey of the consumption of alcohol and other drugs by Canadians 55 years of age or older, and of the resulting behavior and consequences. The survey was part of the National Alcohol and Other Drugs Survey of 1989 in which 11,634 Canadians aged 15 and over participated. The report first discusses the significance of aging with respect to the use of alcohol and other drugs, then presents and analyzes the survey results in chapters covering the following categories of questions: consumption patterns for alcohol, cigarettes, and other licit and illicit drugs; reasons for drinking; consequences of alcohol consumption; social factors and alcohol consumption; and attitudes toward alcohol and other drug use in Canada. Appendices include a description of the survey methodology and the survey questionnaire.
