The experience of Jewish liturgy [[electronic resource] ] : studies dedicated to Menahem Schmelzer / / by Debra Reed Blank

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458156603321
• Autore: Blank Debra Reed
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 9786613470577; 1-283-47057-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Collana: The Brill reference library of Judaism, , 1571-5000 ; ; v. 31
• Disciplina: 296.4/5
• Soggetti: Judaism - Liturgy - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Curious Theological Grammar of Ga’al Yisra’el / Debra Reed Blank -- Seder Foods and Customs in Illuminated Medieval Haggadot / Evelyn M. Cohen -- “In the Last Benedictions He Resembles a Servant Who Has Received a Largess from His Master and Takes His Leave” (b. Ber. 34a) / Uri Ehrlich -- Moses Rimos: Poems and Recipes of a Jewish Physician in Italy / Susan L. Einbinder -- The Impact of Theology on Liturgical Change / Neil Gillman -- Hallel: A Liturgical Composition Celebrating the Exodus / Reuven Hammer -- U-n’taneh Tokef as a Midrashic Poem / Reuven Kimelman -- The Censorship of Aleinu in Ashkenaz and its Aftermath / Ruth Langer -- Dew of Rest: The World of Nature in Qallir’s G’vurot shel Tal / Laura Lieber -- Iyyun t’fillah / Dalia Marx -- Qillirian Compositions for Double Liturgical Occasions: Linguistic and Iconic Aspects (Including an Appendix with Editions of Two New Shivatot for Shabbat and Pesaḥ) / Michael Rand -- Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl on the Text of Mah nishtanah / Stefan C. Reif -- The Ascension of Moses in a Poem by Amittai ben Shephatiah / Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Piyut and Heikhalot: Recent Research and its Implications for the History of Ancient Jewish Liturgy and Mysticism / Michael D. Swartz -- The Early History of the Liturgy of Yom Kippur / Joseph Tabory -- How Music Articulates Liturgical Structure, Meaning, and Perception: The Kaddish / Boaz Tarsi -- Subject Index -- Source Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Menahem Schmelzer, widely recognized for his expertise in Jewish manuscripts and piyyut, has also influenced Jewish liturgical research of the past half century. This collection of sixteen academic studies, by Israeli, European, and American scholars, honors Schmelzer's contribution. The contributors represent three generations, and their topics and methods testify to the vast subject area that Jewish liturgy has become. The articles explore a wide variety of texts and ritual occasions, the relationship between text and worship experience, and implications for related areas such as mysticism; most apply the methods of other subject areas such as liguistics to liturgical study and its implications for related fields. \'...this volume, as a whole, is as much a testimony to the enduring centrality of the librarian in scholarship as it is a collection of essays on \'the experience of Jewish liturgy.\' Wide ranging in scope, these essays are an accurate snapshot of the state of research, illustrating the wealth of material awaiting publication, the need for revisiting prior assumptions, and also the limits of our scholarship.\' Yoel Kahn, Congregation Beth El, Berkeley

Meselson, Stahl, and the replication of DNA [[electronic resource] ] : a history of "the most beautiful experiment in biology" / / Frederic Lawrence Holmes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777859203321
• Autore: Holmes Frederic Lawrence
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1-281-73045-9; 9786611730451; 0-300-12966-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 503 p.) ) : ill
• Disciplina: 572.8/6
• Soggetti: DNA replication - Experiments - History; Molecular biology - Experiments - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-496) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Chapter One The Replication Problem 11 -- Chapter Two Meselson and Stahl 49 -- Chapter Three Twists and Turs 75 -- Chapter Four Crossing Fields: Chemical Bonds to Biological Mutants 116 -- Chapter Five Dense Solutions 157 -- Chapter Six The Big Machine 183 -- Chapter Seven Working at High Speed 215 -- Chapter Eight The Unseen Band 272 -- Chapter Nine One Discovery, Three Stories 303 -- Chapter Ten An Extremely Beautiful Experiment 319 -- Chapter Eleven Centrifugal Forces 352 -- Chapter Twelve The Subunits of Semiconservative Replication 388 -- Chapter Thirteen Images of an Experiment 412 -- Chapter Fourteen Afterword 435.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and Stahl's quest.This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research--its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty. Holmes uses research logs, experimental films, correspondence, and interviews with the participants to record the history of Meselson and Stahl's research, from their first thinking about the problem through the publication of their dramatic results. Holmes also reviews the scientific community's reception of the experiment, the experiment's influence on later investigations, and the reasons for its reputation as an exceptionally beautiful experiment.