Try the Samaritans

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Lionel Blue
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
Reform Jewish ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk

Abstract In this article Lionel Blue recalls his introduction to the UK Reform Jewish movement, at the time the ‘Association of Synagogues of Great Britain’. His work with the youth groups coincided with a pioneering engagement with a post-war German generation, something considered problematical at the time, and similarly the beginning of a Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue. The movement at the time increased its support for Israel and joined with the American Reform Jewish movement in the World Union for Progressive Judaism both of which had their influence on its development. But missing were important spiritual questions: Did God still exist for us and how; Where did we locate Him in the horror of the Holocaust? Despite criticisms of some developments of the movement, what remains important is the friendliness, care and concern of the members, its humanity and preferring people as they are to ideological templates.

scholarly journals Zapomniany kurier do Delegatury Rządu. Ppor. Napoleon Segieda „Wera” (1908–1991)

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Krzysztof A. Tochman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
The West ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The City

The article presents Second Lieutenant Napoleon Segieda, alias Gustav Molin “Wera” or Jerzy Salski (after the war), born in the Zamość region, a resident of Pomerania, and a political courier to the government of the Polish Underground State (during the war), parachuted to the country on the night of 7th November 1941. The paper is the first attempt to show his biography and military achievements. He was a participant in the war of 1939 (the defense of Warsaw), and then, a prisoner of war in the German camps, whence, after many trials and tribulations, he arrived at the Polish Forces base in Great Britain. On completing his mission in the country (summer 1942), Segieda set off to London again with the first comprehensive report of the Polish Underground State to the Polish government-in-exile, London. As early as in 1942, being a witness to the extermination, he alerted the world to the Holocaust, to practically no effect, since the West was not particularly interested in the problem. From spring to summer 1942, Napoleon Segieda stayed in the city of Oświęcim where he collected information about the Concentration Camp Auschwitz. On 8th August 1942, he left Warsaw and, via Cracow and Vienna, reached Switzerland where, for unknown reasons, he got stuck on the way to London for a few months. His report was later distributed among many important and influential politicians of the allied community in Great Britain and the USA. It is worth mentioning that the messages on the Holocaust by Stefan Karboński (the head of the leadership of civil combat) also arrived in London during the summer 1942. After the war, Napoleon Segieda settled down in London, under the surname of Jerzy Salski, where he died completely forgotten.

scholarly journals Role of the UK in the european political integration in the post-war period (1945-1956)

2016 ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Andrew Hrubinko
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Special Position ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk

The article discusses role of Great Britain in the European political integration in the Post-war period (1945-1956). Origins of the “special position” of the country in the system of European integration, in particular regarding participation in its political dimension (foreign and security policy) are presented. Attention on the development of conceptual basis of the UK’s modern policy regarding the participation in European integration during the study period is focused.

Automotive Industry: Crisis and Innovations

2011 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
V. Kondrat’ev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ford Motor Company ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

Banking and financial collapse of late 2008 extremely heavily hit the automotive industry in most countries. In 2009, the production of cars in the world dropped to 57 million units compared to 68 million in 2007. At the same time, recent statistics show that the industry is rapidly recovering from the worst crisis in its history. In the 1st quarter of 2010 car production in the world increased by 57% compared to the same period of 2009. In China, Canada, Mexico and Great Britain it increased by more than 70%. Volkswagen, Ford Motor Company and FIAT announced major investment plans, particularly in China and Latin America. Accordingly, it is expected that in 2010 the global car production will grow to 70 million units, and to 88 million by 2016, 40% of all sales will be in the Asia-Pacific region. Reduction of the automotive industry in Russia turned out to be deeper than anywhere else – 49% in 2009 against the previous year's level. For comparison: in the United States reduction amounted to 21%, in Spain – to18, in Japan – to10, in the UK – to 6.4, in Italy – to 0.2; while in China the production grew by 44%. Nevertheless, the Russian automotive industry is also showing signs of recovery, primarily because of the governmental program of recycling old cars.

scholarly journals Comparative and Legal Analysis of Legislations of Great Britain and Russia in the Field of Preventing Crimes in the Digital Sphere

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Begishev ◽  
Zarina Khisamova
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Criminal Statistics ◽  
Digital Sphere

The paper presents a comparative analysis of criminal and information legislations, legal acts to ensure cybersecurity in the UK and Russia. The experience of the UK as the most digital country in the world in combating crimes committed with the use of digital technologies seems to be more than ever requested and topical. It notes that in Russia the damage to citizens and organizations from criminal attacks is five times higher than the similar damage to the UK citizens, while the total number of attacks registered in the Russian Federation is much lower than that of the official UK criminal statistics. The authors substantiate the thesis about feasibility of creating in the Russian legislation more universal norms with a certain threshold of strength to new types of digital threats. They argue that creation of effective mechanisms for application of legislation provisions in the digital sphere should be a separate area of domestic criminal policy of all countries. On the basis of the conducted research, they offer some mechanisms of securing relations in the digital sphere.

‘Prove it’ Working with LBGTQ+ Asylum Seekers who Must Prove their Sexuality to Stay in the UK

Dramatherapy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Jason Ward
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Male Clients ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Therapy Sessions

As Great Britain reaches 50 years of LBGTQ+ legislation, making it illegal to persecute an individual based on their sexual identity, not everywhere in the world is so enlightened. In some parts of the world, the act of homosexuality is punishable by law, with people sentenced to incarceration or even death. For some people, trying to leave their country and claim asylum in another part of the world is the only way people can truly be themselves. This paper is based on the case studies of two male clients who are both waiting for an asylum decision, with both cases based on their sexuality, and the approach used in therapy sessions, specifically focusing on not only coming to terms with their own persecution, moving from shame of their own culture, but also working with frustration and the re-shaming effects of proving one's sexuality. The overall objective is to create an argument for Dramatherapy when working with complex trauma, shame and raising awareness of the lesser-known work of Dramatherapy and asylum seekers.

The Craft of the Rural Cinema Operator

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Ian Goode
Keyword(s):  
Film History ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Theatrical Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Film Apparatus ◽  
Mobile Cinema ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
British Colonies

The UNESCO report of 1949 that surveyed the use of mobile cinema and radio vans in education around the world documents the use of the 16 mm apparatus on a scale that is not reflected by film history, where the substandard gauge is regarded as a useful, essentially secondary cinema to the permanent cinema of 35 mm. This post-war moment of film history captured by the report was, arguably, the apex of the 16 mm gauge and depended on the work of the cinema operator/projectionist to deliver film programmes to audiences in non-theatrical spaces. The report’s references to the UK describe 16 mm exhibition in the British Colonies and to ‘the Western Isles of Scotland where a highly efficient pioneer service, assisted from public funds, has been developed under the Highlands and Islands Film Guild to surmount the barriers of distance of rural isolation’. This chapter outlines the work of the cinema operators in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and considers the significance and specificities of their role in the improvised exhibition spaces of rural cinema-going. It suggests that the non-theatrical space typically shared by the film apparatus and its audience represents one of the distinct features of this overlooked cinema that provided many remote populations with their first experience of film. This intimate, communal spatial formation made possible by the operators is fondly remembered by surviving communities in the Highlands and Islands. The operator’s role is notable for its particular combination of craft and sociability that defined the experience of rural non-theatrical cinema.

United Kingdom?

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-45
Author(s):  
Peter Marks
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Suez Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
American Leader

Post-war Britain has long been seen as a nation in decline: the loss of imperial territory and international clout from 1945 onwards undeniable and inexorable facts that exposed the fantasy that Britain remained a Great Power. That fantasy was still viable during conferences at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 that set the boundaries for a new, Cold War, geography. The Suez Crisis of 1956 is an oft-recited marker of decline, exposing the myth of British imperial reach, and prompting US Secretary of State’s Dean Acheson’s crushing evaluation that Great Britain had lost an Empire but had not yet found a role. The 1980s might be read as slowing the pace of decline, the Thatcher government under its forthright, pro-American leader attempting to re-establish Britain’s credentials on the world stage.

scholarly journals Polish supplementary schools in Great Britain: a case study of the Polish School of Manchester

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-177
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Rocławska-Daniluk ◽  
Maciej Rataj
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Supplementary School ◽  
The World ◽  
Supplementary Schools ◽  
The Uk

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the results of a small-scale pilot study of attitudes towards Polish and English conducted at a Polish supplementary school in Manchester, England. The intro-ductory part of the paper presents definitions of bilingualism and bilingual education as well as a variety of approaches and policies concerning bilingual education in the world. This is followed by some basic data on Polish immigrants living in the UK and Polish supplementary schools in the UK. The questionnaire used to elicit the data consists of two sets of questions: one concerns Polish and the other English. The questions and the answers elicited are discussed and compared, with the final concluding part focused on attitudes to Polish, which is the native language of the informants’ families.

Religion and Organisation

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Lionel Blue
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Reform Jewish ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This conference sermon delivered to the UK Reform Jewish movement (Reform Synagogues of Great Britain) in 1965 explored the challenges facing this growing religious organisation, ‘a worldly instrument to serve non-worldly purposes’. What are the traps that have to be recognized and avoided? Does God become the rationalization for our prejudices? How do we relate to issues in the Jewish and wider world? Inside the complex bureaucratic system, how do we find place for the freedom of religious experience?

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