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Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
This compares the public hospital systems in New York and Paris. It analyzes staffing, discusses both outpatient and inpatient care, the desirability of private faculty practice, budgeting, quality assurance, and the role of medical education in these two very different systems.
Frederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work. This title looks at Olmsted's varied early career.
This collection of essays develops Edward Nell's influential theory of transformational growth. Nell sets established concepts such as the classical notion of prices of production and the wage-profit frontier within a significant new framework that illustrates their role in the dynamic evoution of the industrial system from its beginnings in ......
Shaw's excellent treatise is a must for anyone researching roots in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire . . . well organized. . . . [and] impressively researched. Dorot Shaw points out many interesting facts of the symbiosis between Jews and Muslims as he traces the relationship of more than 600 years. Choice Especially recommended for ......
A group of international scholars, applying insights drawn from history, folklore, political anthropology, historiography, cultural criticism and literary theory, re-examines critical issues surrounding the birth of Israel.
Looks at the decorative military art of the Ottomans, and describes the masterpieces from various collections around the world, including the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, the National Museum In Cracow, the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and elsewhere.
Contains interviews with nineteen prominent women analysts and writers. In this book, the author persuades them to speak freely on topics such as feminism, sexuality, love, gender differences, and sometimes their lives as analysts and analysands, political activists, wives, and mothers.