1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451094803321

Autore

Frankel Jonathan

Titolo

Jews and gender [[electronic resource] ] : the challenge to hierarchy / / Jonathan Frankel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-280-53115-0

0-19-534977-6

1-4294-0221-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary Jewry, , 0740-8625 ; ; 16

Disciplina

305.48/8924

Soggetti

Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism

Gender identity

Jewish women - Social conditions - 20th century

Jews - Identity

Jews - Social conditions - 20th century

Women in Judaism

Women in rabbinical literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Symposium: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy; Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism; Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires; A Political Tradition? American Jewish Women and the Politics of History; The Jewish Response to the Third Reich: Gender at the Grassroots; Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah; The Impact of Feminism on Rabbinic Studies: The Impossible Paradox of Reading Women into Rabbinic Literature; The Midrashic Enterprise of Contemporary Jewish Women

Imagining "Masculinity" in the Jewish Fin de SiècleThe Modernist Erotics of Jewish Tradition: A View from the Gallery; Body-building, Character-building, and Nation-building: Gender and Military Service in Israel; Replaying the Rape of Dinah: Women's Bodies in Israeli Cultural Discourse; Jewish Women in Transition: A Comparative



Sociodemographic Perspective; Essays; Bearing Witness to the "Differend": Jean-François Lyotard, the Postmodern Intellectual, and "the jews"; As Families Remember: Holocaust Memoirs and Their Transmission; Review Essays; Postmodernism and the Jewish Question

Beyond Heroism and Victimhood: Gender and Holocaust ScholarshipPeople of the Image; On the Brink of Peace? More Israeli Memoirs; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature and the Arts; Religion, Thought and Education; Zionism, Israel and the Middle East; Letter to the Editor; Response; Contents for Volume XVII; Note on Editorial Policy

Sommario/riassunto

The 16th volume in the studies in contemporary Jewry series features a symposium on the theme of Jews and gender. The articles show how a varied and controversial feminist approach can be applied to the field of Jewish studies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462278803321

Autore

Kharkhurin Anatoliy V

Titolo

Multilingualism and creativity [[electronic resource] /] / Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2012

ISBN

1-84769-797-6

1-283-60854-5

9786613920997

1-84769-796-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; ; 88

Disciplina

404/.2019

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Psychological aspects

Creativity (Linguistics)

Psycholinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Creative Cognition -- 2.



Multilingual Cognition -- 3. Multilingual Creativity -- 4. Multilingual Creative Cognition -- 5. Multilingual Creative Development -- 6. Implications of Multilingual Creative Cognition for Creativity Domains -- 7. Implications of Multilingual Creative Cognition for Education -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Internet-Based Multilingual and Multicultural Experience Questionnaire -- Appendix B: Internet-Based Picture Naming Test -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this monograph, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin presents the results of his empirical investigation into the impact of multilingual practice on an individual's creative potential. Until now, the relationship between these two activities has received little attention in the academic community. The book makes an attempt to resuscitate this theme and provides a solid theoretical framework supported by contemporary empirical research conducted in a variety of geographic, linguistic, and sociocultural locations. This study demonstrates that several factors - such as the multilinguals' age of language acquisition, proficiency in these languages and experience with cultural settings in which these languages were acquired - have a positive impact on selective attention and language mediated concept activation mechanisms. Together, these facilitate generative and innovative capacities of creative thinking. This book will be of great interest not only to scholars in the fields of multilingualism and creativity, but also to educators and all those interested in enhancing foreign language learning and fostering creativity.