Otto Dov Kulka, German Jews in the Era of the “Final Solution”: Essays on Jewish and Universal History. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter; Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2020. xv + 341 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-267
Keyword(s):  
Final Solution ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Return Visit ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
Nazi Persecution ◽  
German Jewry ◽  
Source Of Information

This chapter evaluates Otto Dov Kulka's German Jews in the Era of the “Final Solution”: Essays on Jewish and Universal History (2020). Readers interested in the significance of antisemitism in modern European history, the centrality of antisemitism in Nazi ideology, the reaction of German Jews to Nazi persecution, and the influence of the German public's attitudes toward Jews on Nazi policies will find this collection a rich source of information. Kulka shows that key organizations of German Jewry such as the Reichsvertretung and its successor, the Reichsvereinigung, managed to preserve their essential functions under the Nazis; they did not become tools of the regime. In general, German Jews were able to resist the process known as coordination (Gleichschaltung). If anything, they became more dedicated to their own organizations and more democratic as persecution increased. The collection also includes Kulka's own experience of miraculous survival in the family camp at Auschwitz and his return visit to Auschwitz in 1978.

scholarly journals Dying Hungry: Nazi Ideology and the Pragmatism behind Starvation in Implementing the Final Solution

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Kiril Feferman
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Food Policies ◽  
Mass Starvation ◽  
The Relationship

German theories and policies regarding the relationship between food and Jewish citizens of eastern Europe served as an important foundation of the Nazis’ Judenpolitik during the Holocaust (1933-45). The mass starvation of Jews in German-dominated Europe was the result of a carefully calculated policy to make the Jews pay for a long list of misfortunes they had allegedly inflicted on the Germans. This policy evolved from a highly restrictive and discriminatory approach toward German Jews, which unfolded against a backdrop of harsh food policies applied to the local non-Jewish population.

Talking to children about parental mental illness: The experiences of well parents

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Ballal ◽  
Janardhana Navaneetham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Mental Health Systems ◽  
The Family ◽  
Supportive Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information

Background: Children of parents with mental illness are not routinely included in psychoeducational and supportive family interventions provided by adult mental health systems. The family, therefore, is an important and, sometimes, the only source of information and support for them. Aim: To understand the experiences of well parents in talking to their children about parental mental illness. Method: This article presents the findings of a qualitative study of the experiences of well parents in talking to their children about parental mental illness. Ten well parents whose spouses were diagnosed with a severe mental illness participated in the study. Socio-demographic information, family details and history of the spouse’s mental illness along with their experiences of talking to children about parental mental illness, the perceived risks and benefits, challenges they faced and the role of others in the process were recorded. Qualitative data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings: The themes of ‘distancing children from parental mental illness’, ‘avoiding conversations about the illness’, ‘giving and receiving emotional support’, ‘providing explanations of the illness’ and ‘regulating other sources of information’ show the complex ways in which well parents influence their children’s understanding of parental mental illness. The findings are examined in the background of what is known about this topic from the perspective of children or of the parent with illness. Possible ways to support well parents in families affected by parental mental illness are discussed. Conclusion: This study is a step forward in the understanding of how families talk to children about parental mental illness and provides the perspective of the well parent.

From anti-idyll to the “poem of desolation”: the traditions of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in the “estate text” of the early XX century

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Galina I. Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Present State ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Formal Features

On the basis of thematic proximity and similarity of a number of formal features (chronotope of the noble nest; the image of the negative aspects of the es- tate life; the weakening of cause-and-effect relations between the events; the system of characters, tied by relation, but separated spiritually; the specificity of organization of speech) genre transformations in the last novel of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin “Old Years in Poshe khonye” (1889) and in the short stories cycle of I.A. Bunin “Black Earth” (1903) have compared. The theme of returning to their homeland also brings them closer together — a mental appeal to the past, that is, in Poshekhon’s childhood by Saltykov-Shchedrin, the road to the family estate — by Bunin. In both works embodied a persistent conflict that does not find a final solution. The sharp denial of the present state of reality, characteristic of satire, presupposes the existence of an ideal, which in the works by Saltykov-Shchedrin and appears as an idyllic picture of the world. In relation to it, the image of estate life in both “Old Years in Poshekhonye” and “Black Earth” is anti-idyllic: here everything is the opposite and contradicts the idyllic notions of peaceful life in harmony with nature. In Bunin’s story, this feature is shown in the appeal to the genre of “poem of desolation”.

Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Rural Women

2015 ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
P. Pandiselvi ◽  
M. Lakshmi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Health Care Information ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care Information ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Source Of Information

Indian society has been bound by culture and tradition since ancient times. The patriarchal system and the gender stereotypes in the family and society have always showed a preference for the male child. Sons were regarded as a means of social security and women remained under male domination. Due to her subordinated position, she has suffered years of discrimination, exploitation and subjugation. She became the victim of several evils like child marriage, sati, polygamy, Purdah system, female infanticide, forced pregnancy, rape etc. In such incidents/recorded cases surprisingly mother-in-law are also taking active part. This discrimination and violence against women had an effect on the sex ratio in India. The main causes of violence are unequal power-relations, gender discrimination, patriarchy, and economic dependence of women, dowry, low moral values, negative portrayal of women's image in media, no participation in decision-making, gender stereotypes and a negative mindset. In this study about 69.39% of the respondents were married and 4.91% respondents were widow, it is observed that 3.82% of respondents were divorcee. The rest of them 21.85% were unmarried. In this study 50.27% majority of the women need information on education information, followed by information on others respectively 25.68%, agriculture information 22.95%, employment information 15.30%, health care information 11.48%, loan and politics information 9.29%, food nutrition, entertainment information respectively 6.01%, the lowest 3.28% of the respondents needed information on religion. In this study 88% of respondents responded that they were highly satisfied with the source of information, where as 9% of respondents responded that they were partially satisfied, 2.73% of respondents said that the source of information are moderately satisfied.

Forced into Exile and Fighting Back

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-265
Author(s):  
Yuan-tsung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Final Solution ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
American Universities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Red Guards

The Red Guards, backed by the Maoist military representatives stationed in Jack’s office, cajoled Yuan-tsung and Jack into going to the backwater Upper Felicity Village, which was the Red Guards’ final solution to the problem of disposing of the couple. But Yuan-tsung reconnected with Jack’s American brother-in-law, Jay Leyda, who was teaching at York University in Canada. Eventually, with the secret help of a fellow victim Yuan-tsung had met by happenstance on a bus, and despite some letters intercepted by Red Guards, Jack was able to get messages from Leyda. Leyda succeeded in organizing a speech tour for Jack to Canadian and American universities, and informed Zhou Enlai of it. On the prime minister’s personal order, Jack was brought back to Beijing and granted exit visas for the family. After the tour of Chinese cities arranged by Zhou Enlai, Jack, Yuan-tsung, and their son left China in May 1971, two months before Kissinger’s secret visit to China in July.

CHARLES ROLLIN AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN AMERICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-355
Author(s):  
MARK W. GRAHAM
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
The Family

Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard … In the family “keeping-room,” as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old bookcase, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible, stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom's Cabin(Boston, MA, 1852), 226

scholarly journals Ethnobotanic study of medicinal plants used in Oran, Algeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1163-1173
Author(s):  
Hafsa Benaiche ◽  
Nadia Bouredja ◽  
Amel Alioua
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Therapeutic Efficacy ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Ethnobotanical Survey ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Major Mode ◽  
The Family ◽  
Digestive Disorders ◽  
Source Of Information

Using 500 survey cards, the ethnobotanical survey was conducted over a period of 4 months. From the survey 62 species belonging to 30 families were identified. The family Lamiaceae is the most dominant followed by Apiaceae. In addition, the leaves are the most used part (38%). Furthermore, the infusion was the major mode of preparation (66%). In terms of diseases treated, digestive disorders rank first (50%), followed by respiratory diseases (28%). The results obtained will be a valuable source of information for the region. There could be a database for further research in the fields of pharmacology and for the purpose of evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of medicinal plants.

Breaking Out of the Bourgeois Home: Domestic Melodrama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heins
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Third Reich

This chapter examines the domestic melodrama and argues that it was used by the Nazis in a genre-contradictory manner to effect a departure from the nuclear family, in accordance with the antibourgeois antipathies of the regime's leadership. It contends that Nazi films, far from universally reinforcing traditional family structures, actually profit from an undermining of sexual taboos—the ultimate goal being an increased level of efficiency of production and reproduction. Seemingly prohibited desires actually formed the core of Nazi film melodramas; just as fascist Germany's “leading man” found the family largely unattractive, so did the imaginary of its cinema. Filmmakers in the Third Reich preferred to offer images of the dissolution of the family rather than images of harmonious familial units, and the domestic melodrama in particular reveals the highly conflicted attitude of Nazi ideology and policy regarding bourgeois morality, marriage, and motherhood.

Implementing the Final Solution: The Ordinary Regulating of the Extraordinary

1988 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-569
Author(s):  
Henry L. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Nuclear Catastrophe

The implementation of the Final Solution is discussed in terms of the divergent interpretations characteristic of the “functionalists” and the “intentionalists.” The routines of two sets of implementors are described: the mass liquidations perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen an the “barbaric-civil orderliness” of the bureaucrats carrying out the deportation of the German Jews. In the final section, Lifton's concept of the medicalization of the killings is introduced, with attention also to his thoughts on “doubling” and the extension of his concerns “beyond Auschwitz” to the sphere of nuclear catastrophe.

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