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UNINA9910461348003321 |
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Autore |
Straten Jits van |
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Titolo |
The origin of Ashkenazi Jewry [[electronic resource] ] : the controversy unraveled / / Jits van Straten |
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New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2011 |
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1-283-16560-0 |
9786613165602 |
3-11-023606-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Jews - Europe - History |
Jews - Europe, Eastern - History |
Ethnicity - Europe |
Khazars |
Jews - Origin |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The controversy : Germany or Khazaria -- The Khazars -- The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region : France, Germany, Bohemia, Moravia Silesia, and Hungary -- The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region : Poland, Lithuania, and Russia from 1500 to 1900 : the Numerical increase -- Yiddish -- Genetic research (and Anthropology) -- The revised origin and development of East European Jewry. |
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Where do East European Jews - about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry - descend from? This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to constitute East European Jewry. Dealing with another much debated theory, van Straten points to the fact that there is no way to identify the descendants of the Khazars in the Ashkenazi population. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author draws heavily on demographic findings which are vital to evaluate the conclusions of modern DNA research. Finally, it is suggested that East European Jews |
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are mainly descendants of Ukrainians and Belarussians. UPDATE: The article "The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route" (Aschkenas 2017; 27(1): 239-270) is intended to clarify the origin of East European Jewry between roughly 300 BCE and 1000 CE. It is a supplement to this book. |
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UNINA9910749034403321 |
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Autore |
Andersson J. Daniel |
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Titolo |
Artificial Earth : A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity / / J. Daniel Andersson |
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Earth, Milky Way : , : Punctum books, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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9781685711313 |
1685711316 |
9781685711306 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 pages) |
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Geology, Stratigraphic - Anthropocene |
Geology - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Available through punctum books. |
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Offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, that anthropogenic environmental change has become so prevailing that it ought to be conceived of as a force of nature, in the literal sense of the expression. Artificial Earth argues that to fully grasp the stakes of this discourse, we need not only understand the contemporary scientific and technological transformations behind the Anthropocene, but also explore the history of an ontological concern tied up with it. In order to |
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do so, Artificial Earth examines reflections on the ontological dualism between nature and artifice within the history of earth science from the late eighteenth century onwards. Paying particular attention to its consequences for how human subjectivity has been conceptualized in the Anthropocene, it then enrolls these resources in an effort to problematize attempts since the 1980s to formalize earth science in systems theory terminology. In sum, the aim is to investigate the historical conditions for the possibility of conceiving human artifice as an integral part of the earth’s terrestrial environment, with the conviction that such an investigation may assist in resolving the aforementioned contradiction or at least to understand it better by tracing its historical lineage. |
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