1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793459003321

Autore

Haumann Heiko <1945->

Titolo

A history of East European Jews [[electronic resource] /] / by Heiko Haumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-585-45766-2

615-5211-52-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages)

Disciplina

947/.004924

Soggetti

Jews - Europe, Eastern - History

Europe, Eastern History

Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS -- The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution -- The Opponents of the Jews -- Economic Success -- Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews -- Learning and Culture -- The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country -- A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland? -- PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY -- Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function -- 'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring' -- Luftmenshn -- Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New -- Intermediary Activities -- Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti- -- Semitism -- Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment -- Assimilation and Acculturation -- 'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews -- By



Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di -- The Jewish Family -- Men and Women in Jewish Society -- Jewish Upbringing -- Everyday Religious Customs -- Synagogue and Community Organizations -- Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World -- Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity -- Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland -- A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina -- A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary -- Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in -- Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria -- A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia -- PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE -- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union -- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti- -- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars -- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European -- Countries -- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews -- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope -- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals -- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works -- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews -- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New -- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe -- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern -- Europe a New Identity -- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781028403321

Titolo

Casting design and performance [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Materials Park, Ohio, : ASM International, c2009

ISBN

1-61503-132-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

671.2

Soggetti

Founding

Metal castings

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

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Casting Design Issues and Practices""; ""Casting Design and Processes""; ""Modeling of Casting and Solidification Processing""; ""Riser Design""; ""Gating Design""; ""Design for Economical Sand Molding""; ""Design for Economical Coring""; ""Casting Design and Geometry""; ""Design Problems Involving Thin Sections""; ""Design Problems Involving Uniform Sections""; ""Design Problems Involving Unequal Sections""; ""Design Problems Involving Junctions""; ""Design Problems Involving Distortion""; ""Corrosion of Cast Irons""

""Corrosion of Cast Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels""""Corrosion of Cast Stainless Steels""; ""Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Cast Irons""; ""Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Cast Steels""; ""Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Aluminum Alloy Castings""; ""Friction and Wear of Cast Irons""; ""Friction and Wear of Aluminum-Silicon Alloys""; ""Failure Analysis of Castings""; ""Inspection of Castings""; ""Classification of Casting Defects""; ""Index""