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Jewish Reform Movement in the US
This volume examines the development of the non-liturgical parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Haggadot. Through an understanding of the changes in American Jewish educational patterns and the CCAR's theology, it explores how the CCAR Haggadah was changed over time to address the needs of the constituency. While there have been many studies of the Haggadah and its development over the course of Jewish history, there has been no such study of the non-liturgical parts of the Haggadah that reflect the needs of the audience it reaches. How the CCAR, the first and largest of American-born Judaisms, addressed the changing needs of its members through its literature for the Passover Seder reveals much about the development of the movement. This in turn provides for the readers of this book an understanding of how American Judaism has developed.
Trisomy 21
For a long time, it was assumed that a genetic disposition such as trisomy 21 enables predictions to be made about overall personality development. But, who could have ever imagined that people with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) would also be capable of earning a university degree? We studied 1,294 people with trisomy 21. The results showed that people with trisomy 21 benefit more from abstract learning than their neurotypical counterparts. Two-year-olds with the syndrome first learn to read and only then to speak and will understand algebra better than arithmetic. Ignorance of neurodiversity inevitably leads to learning difficulties when these people are forced to learn at the same pace as others. This applies to autism and trisomy 21 to the same extent. That is why this book advocates the recognition of trisomy 21 as a variant in the spectrum of human neurodiversity.
German Literature in the Age of Globalisation
Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of culture, politics and society in a more 'normal', united country, German literature has become increasingly diverse and seemingly disparate - at the one extreme, it represents the attempt to 'reinvent' German traditions, at the other, the unmistakable influence of Anglo-American forms and pop literature. A shared concern of almost all of recent German fiction, however, is the contemporary debate on globalisation, its nature, impact and consequences for 'local culture'. In its engagement with globa...
Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989
Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany have received intense public attention: the Veĺ d'Hiv in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects.
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Transnationalism and the German City
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
Die Besetzung des öffentlichen Raumes
Denkmäler und Denkmalensembles, national codierte Plätze und Straßennamen sind Zeichen im öffentlichen (meist urbanen) Raum, denen ein auf eine Gruppe bezogenes „Narrativ“ eingeschrieben ist. Sie können als Visualisierungen einer erwünschten oder gesetzten kollektiven Identität und eines kollektiven Gedächtnisses, häufig „nationaler“ Provenienz, analysiert werden. Politische Umbrüche und Systemwechsel gehen dementsprechend oft mit einer „Neubeschriftung“ des öffentlichen Raumes einher, mit der Umbenennung von Straßen und Plätzen, dem Sturz oder der Neu- und Wiedererrichtung von Denkmälern. Der Band versammelt 23 Beiträge von internationalen Wissenschaftlern, in denen die Frage der symbolischen Besetzung des öffentlichen Raumes einerseits methodisch reflektiert, andererseits – anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele – in vergleichender europäischer Perspektive analysiert wird.
