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Yiddish
The essays that make up Yiddish bring together the homely flavor of family stories, the reminiscences of a childhood in a neighborhood where Yiddish was in the conversations of immigrants, old and recent, in business, in the newspapers, even in the chair of the Portuguese immigrant barber. The informality of the language, which for Shmulik was literally mameloshn (mother tongue), only became an object of his study much later, even though the memory and his search for the first childhood book and the short story Dos yingele mitn ringele (The little boy with the little ring), with which he shows an enormous identification, has accompanied his trajectory. Added to these affectionate stories was...
Shulem
The stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors are all the same and at the same time all unique and thrilling. This is the story of two World War II Polish Jew survivors, Michal Kilsztajn from Bendin and Chana Libman from Mezritsh. Michal spent the War in Lager, Nazi German Forced Labor and Concentration Camps; and Chana was deported with her mother and siblings to Siberia. Among the statistics that hide personal tragedies, almost all the large families of Michal and Chana, which were living in Poland for centuries, were exterminated during World War II. Besides my parents’ memories I carry with me, I immersed in the vast literature of the Holocaust and had also the opportunity and joy, through...
Jaffa
The Jewish State, in the post-war period, was created in order to inhibit the millennial anti-Semitism spread in Christian societies, but, as a result, it generated anti-Semitism among Muslims, who until then lived peacefully with the Jews. Persecuted by Europeans, in their survival instinct, the Jews landed and occupied Palestine; and Muslim Palestinians, in their survival instinct, fight against the State of Israel. We have, therefore, two peoples fighting for survival and for the preservation of their self-esteem. Is it licit to use the oppression that European Jews suffered during the Holocaust to justify the oppression of the Muslim Palestinian people?
Returnees
This book brings the suffering and sober account of the itinerary of a very particular category of Jews. Survivors of the Nazi extermination in Europe, they arrived in Israel, lived there – some, like Samuel Kilsztajn, the author of this book, were born in the Promised Land –, did not adapt and re-emigrated to Europe, as a platform to reach the American continent, the New World. In Returnees, Samuel Kilsztajn creates a dynamic of coming and going between the characters and the structures in the midst of which they move, and from there arises, helped by the clarity of the writing, a story that holds, moves and makes you think about the stones that people find along the way. In such an unusual and cruel way. And the words that describe this painful tour around the vast world are not measured by a supposed politeness: they are spoken with all the letters. Scream. After seven decades, the drama of refugees is becoming increasingly present on all continents. You have to clamour out for them. Cristina Konder and Mauro Malin
Biomechanics of Living Organs
Biomechanics of Living Organs: Hyperelastic Constitutive Laws for Finite Element Modeling is the first book to cover finite element biomechanical modeling of each organ in the human body. This collection of chapters from the leaders in the field focuses on the constitutive laws for each organ. Each author introduces the state-of-the-art concerning constitutive laws and then illustrates the implementation of such laws with Finite Element Modeling of these organs. The focus of each chapter is on instruction, careful derivation and presentation of formulae, and methods. When modeling tissues, this book will help users determine modeling parameters and the variability for particular populations....
Jaffa
The Jewish State, in the post-war period, was created in order to inhibit the millennial anti-Semitism spread in Christian societies, but, as a result, it generated anti-Semitism among Muslims, who until then lived peacefully with the Jews. Persecuted by Europeans, in their survival instinct, the Jews landed and occupied Palestine; and Muslim Palestinians, in their survival instinct, fight against the State of Israel. We have, therefore, two peoples fighting for survival and for the preservation of their self-esteem. Is it licit to use the oppression that European Jews suffered during the Holocaust to justify the oppression of the Muslim Palestinian people?
Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
Are the household characteristics that are good for transition to a more diversified market-oriented development process in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of household and community characteristics using comprehensive national household surveys for 1993 and 1998. Despite some common causative factors, such as education and region of residence, the processes determining poverty and inhibiting diversification are clearly not the same. Participation in the emerging rural nonfarm market economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam's poor. This paper--a product of Public Services, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand how to reduce poverty.
Land Allocation in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition
Abstract: While liberalizing key factor markets is a crucial step in the transition from a socialist control-economy to a market economy, the process can be stalled by imperfect information, high transaction costs, and covert resistance from entrenched interests. Ravallion and van de Walle study land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's reforms aiming to establish a free market in land-use rights following de-collectivization. Inefficiencies in the initial administrative allocation are measured against an explicit counterfactual market solution. The authors' tests using a farm-household panel data set spanning the reforms suggest that land allocation responded positively but slowly to the inefficiencies of the administrative allocation. They find no sign that the transition favored the land rich or that it was thwarted by the continuing power over land held by local officials. This paper"a joint product of the Poverty Team and the Public Services Team, Development Research Group"is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the welfare impacts of major policy reforms.
Occupational Ergonomics: Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Limb and Back
A collection of lectures from renowned international experts from the 1999 International Course for the Advanced Training in Occupational Health. Deals with work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
Income Convergence During the Disintegration of the World Economy, 1919-39
Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two world wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period 1919-39 was associated with divergence of incomes among the rich countries is wrong. On the contrary, income convergence continued and even accelerated. Since the mid-19th century, incomes of rich countries tended to converge in peacetime regardless of whether their economies were more or less integrated. This, in turn, implies that it may not be trade and capital and labor flows that matter for income convergence but some other, less easily observable, forces like diffusion of information and technology.
