The primal scream of Glückl and the Frauenbibel

Babel ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-175
Author(s):  
Albert Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Private Life ◽  
German Version ◽  
Biblical Commentary ◽  
Psychoanalytic Literature ◽  
New Form

This article analyzes the “cry from the heart” of Bertha Pappenheim through her German version of the Yiddish Memoirs of Glückl von Hamel and the renowned “female Bible” (Tsenerene). Involved here is the placing of this output in the framework of her private life — a somewhat hysterical one, winning her the name of “Anna O” in psychoanalytic literature — and in the context of her feminism and social activism (among other things, she was the head of a Jewish orphanage in Germany and an investigator of Jewish cultural values in Eastern Europe). Her work shows how a tradition of biblical commentary can inspire both vernacular creativity and sacred literalism — inventiveness in the sense of a creation of a new form of Yiddish called Taytshsprakh (“language of commentary”) and “interlineal literalism” in Walter Benjamin’s sense. Most particularly, Pappenheim’s work as translator brings out the proud nature of a Jewish response to Hitler and helps to define the field of Jewish translation.

Perception of Absence as Value-Driven Perception

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anya Farennikova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ring Finger ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Form

Experiences of absence are often laden with values and expectations. For example, one might notice that a job candidate is not wearing a tie, or see the absence of a wedding band on a person's ring finger. These experiences embody cultural knowledge and expectations, and therefore seem like good candidates for being a form of evaluative perception. This chapter argues that experiences of absence are evaluative apart from the social or cultural values they take on. They are evaluative in their core, solely by virtue of being experiences of absence. The chapter begins by explaining why certain experiences of absence should be treated as a case of genuine perception. It then clarifies the role of the evaluative states in experiences of absence. The chapter concludes by arguing that experiences of absence constitute a new form of evaluative perception, and presents the subjective–objective dichotomy in a new light.

Employee Rights and Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skorupinska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Employee Rights ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
New Form

Transformation of economies in Central and Eastern Europe countries has not been accompanied by sufficient guarantees for social dimension. Following that, the economic recession has particularly badly affected these countries. However, well-functioning social dialogue and regulated labour relations with well developed employee rights are the very bases of social guarantees. The analysis carried out in this paper leads to a conclusion that employee representation in workplaces in Central and Eastern Europe is still trade unions’ domain, in spite of the 2002 Directive’s implementation and (in general) dual system of worker representation in these countries. Initially, trade unions were afraid of the competition from works councils. With the passing of time, they toned down their inimical attitude towards these institutions. However, employees have not completely accepted the new form of worker participation yet and the number of works councils in these countries is still relatively small.

scholarly journals Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli’s Illustrated Magazines

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Guidali
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Middlebrow Culture ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Selection Of

Angelo Rizzoli was one of Italy’s leading publishers in the interwar period and beyond, thanks to his business intuition and daring investments in the popular periodicals sector. In the 1920s and 1930s he published a galaxy of illustrated magazines aimed at the urban middle classes, that prove paradigmatic of a new form of Italian weeklies. The article posits that Rizzoli’s rotocalchi, based on entertaining content and photojournalism, weremediators par excellence in three areas. First, in publishing middlebrow fiction. Second, in translating short stories from linguistic and cultural milieus with a deliberate selection of specific literary genres, settings, and character types — a branding that emerges from investigating the weeklies Novella and Lei. Third, in the creation of a platform for interchange between literature, photography and cinema, mainly in Cinema Illustrazione Presenta. Notwithstanding the obstacles put in their way by the Fascist regime and the censorship system, Rizzoli’s illustrated magazines introduced and spread models of female conduct that did not coincide with those proposed by the Fascists, while adapting them to common Italian cultural values and exploiting them for commercial purposes. As a typical expression of middlebrow culture based on leisure, respectability, and consumption, they repurposed messages from other media and foreign contexts, facilitating the penetration of modern behaviour patterns in Italy.

scholarly journals The Intertextuality and Translations of Fine Art and Class in Hip-Hop Culture

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam de Paor-Evans
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Class System ◽  
New Form ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Primary Form

Hip-hop culture is structured around key representational elements, each of which is underpinned by the holistic element of knowledge. Hip-hop emerged as a cultural counter position to the socio-politics of the urban condition in 1970s New York City, fuelled by destitution, contextual displacement, and the cultural values of non-white diaspora. Graffiti—as the primary form of hip-hop expression—began as a political act before morphing into an artform which visually supported the music and dance elements of hip-hop. The emerging synergies graffiti shared with the practices of DJing, rap, and B-boying (breakdancing) forged a new form of art which challenged the cultural capital of music and visual and sonic arts. This article explores moments of intertextuality between visual and sonic metaphors in hip-hop culture and the canon of fine art. The tropes of Michelangelo, Warhol, Monet, and O’Keefe are interrogated through the lyrics of Melle Mel, LL Cool J, Rakim, Felt, Action Bronson, Homeboy Sandman and Aesop Rock to reveal hip-hop’s multifarious intertextuality. In conclusion, the article contests the fallacy of hip-hop as mainstream and lowbrow culture and affirms that the use of fine art tropes in hip-hop narratives builds a critical relationship between the previously disparate cultural values of hip-hop and fine art, and challenges conventions of the class system.

‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign

2022 ◽  
pp. 136754942110622
Author(s):  
Lucian Vesalon ◽  
Vlad Botgros
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Peculiar Case

‘The world’s shortest highway’ is 1 metre long and was built in 2019 by a Romanian businessman as part of the campaign ‘Romania wants highways’. This brought interesting evolutions to the landscape of social movements in Eastern Europe. It was a highly personalised campaign, one which faced several internal contradictions and displayed an uncritical adoption of stereotypes about progress and development. We argue that it produced a discourse that revolves around ‘Westernisation’ and ‘nationhood’. As this article seeks to demonstrate, the campaign is framed in a discourse of ‘entrepreneurial populism’. By analysing this discourse, we contribute with a peculiar case to the debates on the varieties of populism and on the culture of business celebrities. Our analysis indicates that, although this single-issue campaign is nominally about highways, its substance is rather about business celebrities occupying the space of social activism.

THE HISTORY OF THE«ATLAS OF THE VIRGIN MARY» USEOF THE JESUS SOCIETY IN RUSSIAN ICONOGRAPHY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
I.A. AVILOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Dominican Order ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Stages

The purpose of this study is to form new iconographies as a set of subjects, compositional schemes and their historical features on the example of the list of Our Lady of the Snow image, brought to Eastern Europe by the Dominican Order and distributed with the participation of the Jesus Society. The history of Russian iconography in a generalized form can be represented by two stages, char-acterizing, respectively, the influence on it of the images of the Eastern Roman Empire (earlier than the second half of the 17-th century) and Western Europe (from the second half of the 17-th centu-ry). The Jesus Society plays an important role in this process, or as its representatives later came to be called - the Jesuits. The objectives of the study were to trace the path from the source of icono-graphy in Rome to Eastern Europe, and then consider the examples of the «Joy of All Who Sorrow» in the Russian image of the Mother of God use, including one of the churches of the Orel region. While conducting the research, the historical method is used, in the study of events and processes in dynamics. To consider specific cultural values, the iconological method is used, which makes it possible to present both the visual form and its content in a comprehensive way.

scholarly journals FÆLLESSPISNING MIDT I JYLLAND: Når det drejer sig mere om spisning og drikning end om mad og drikke

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Private Life ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
At Home

Richard P. Jenkins: Sociability in Mid- Jutland: When Eating and Drinking is the Point, rather than Food and Drink This paper is based upon nearly a year’s field research in a town in mid-westem Jutland, Denmark. Ethnographic data is presented about the range of occasions for eating and drinking which are available to its inhabitants: eating at home, meetings, annual general meetings, parties and celebrations, and public eating on demand and at need. The argument is made that the social occasions of eating and drinking are more significant than the food and drink itself. This is related to a complex of cultural values concemed with sociability, consensus, mutuality, communality and apparent equality, which finds its widest expression in the Danish welfare State. Developing changes in the structure of private life and households - and in the values just itemised - are related to changes in the organisation of eating and drinking. A more general argument is also offered, about the need to re-orient the study of food and drink towards a processual study of eating and drinking.

scholarly journals Living at the Edge of Compromise: Balkan Pluralism as a Resource for Balanced Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Drozdstoy Stoyanov ◽  
Bill Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Counter Example ◽  
Conflicting Demands

AbstractThis chapter presents a case study from Eastern Europe illustrating Balkan pluralist cultural values as a resource for balanced dissensual decision-making in values-based practice. In responding to his neighbor Ivailo’s request for a loan, Dr. Petrov has to balance the conflicting demands of financial prudence and humanitarian neighborliness. In this, he draws on the Balkan tradition of ‘living at the edge of compromise’ required to survive several centuries of occupation by different colonizing powers. Balkan pluralism so derived provides a counter example to the idea that people are inherently monistic rather than pluralistic in their response to conflicting values and thus opens up new approaches to implementing values-based practice.

scholarly journals Geocaching w Roztoczańskim Parku Narodowym

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Mateusz Dobek ◽  
Marcin Kozieł
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Approximate Location ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Rules Of The Game

<p>Geocaching is a type of a field game, which consists in finding caches (ang. Cache) placed earlier in the area. Participants of the game find the approximate location of a hidden "treasure" basing on geographic coordinates and descriptions contained on the website and using GPS. Perceptiveness, creativity and unconventional thinking should be demonstrated to find a cache. There is a so called logbook in a hidden container in which its finding should be recorded, and then this fact must be confirmed on a special website (http://www.geocaching.com, http://www.geocaching.pl). Geocaching is not a threat to the environment, the rules of the game forbid the devastation of the environment near the cache. Many of the caches are located in the areas of national parks. Enthusiasts of a new form of tourism, which is geocaching, are rarely encountered near Roztoczański National Park, even though the area has a great potential for using in this game (play). Currently, there is only one cache in the Park at the Conservative Breeding Centre in Florianka. Numerous natural and cultural values, as well as developed tourism infrastructure create favorable conditions for the creation (establishment) of new caches in the RNP (Roztoczański National Park) and its surroundings. The authors present a proposal for the inclusion of new caches along the bicycle route Zwierzyniec - Florianka - Górecko Stare. General use of this kind of activity can be helpful in tourist traffic dispersal and directing tourists to places rarely visited.</p><div> </div>

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