Family and Faith, 1790–1828

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-45
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Women Ministers ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Central New York ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Farm Community ◽  
Inner Light

Amy Kirby Post’s life as a social activist was rooted in the Quaker farm community in which she was raised. Born in 1802 in Jericho, New York, Amy Kirby was surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all of them birthright members of the Society of Friends. Friends embraced a diverse range of views, but the local Jericho and Westbury Friends Meetings were noted for their peace and antislavery testimonies. Elias Hicks led antislavery efforts in the area and insisted that individuals act according to their “inner light” rather than the Quaker Discipline or even the Bible. Friends’ separate women’s meetings and acknowledgement of women ministers provided Amy with a strong sense of female independence. Yet she also learned about the fragility of family ties and of life itself. Her closest sister Hannah married Isaac Post and moved to central New York in 1823; Amy’s fiancé died in 1825; and two years later Hannah died far from home. Hannah’s death occurred just as the Society of Friends split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. While twenty-five-year-old Amy was certain about her spiritual commitment to the Hicksites, in most other ways, her future felt deeply unsettled.

Survey of Pancreatitis—Central New York Surgical Society

1961 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon G. Berman ◽  
Edward Dunn ◽  
Clifford J. Straehley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Central New York

Exceptional America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugambi Jouet
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Law School ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
American Conservatism ◽  
The Bible

Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, apocalyptical prophecies, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sexual education, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war. The intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism—an idea widely misunderstood as American superiority. It is rather what makes America an exception, for better or worse. While exceptionalism once was largely a source of strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. They also shed light on the peculiar ideological evolution of American conservatism, which long predated Trumpism. Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, radical anti-governmentalism, and Christian fundamentalism are far more common in America than Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Mugambi Jouet explores American exceptionalism’s intriguing roots as a multicultural outsider-insider. Raised in Paris by a French mother and Kenyan father, he then lived throughout America, from the Bible Belt to New York, California, and beyond. His articles have notably been featured in The New Republic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, and Le Monde. He teaches at Stanford Law School.

„Rzymski” Żyd – nieznana twórczość Romana Brandstaettera

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Dariusz Konrad Sikorski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Law

Summary After 1946, ie. after embracing Christianity, Roman Brandstaetter would often point to the Biblical Jonah as a role model for both his life and his artistic endeavour. In the interwar period, when he was a columnist of Nowy Głos, a New York Polish-Jewish periodical, he used the penname Romanus. The ‘Roman’ Jew appears to have treated his columns as a form of an artistic and civic ‘investigation’ into scandalous cases of breaking the law, destruction of cultural values and violation of social norms. Although it his was hardly ‘a new voice’ with the potential to change the course of history, he did become an intransigent defender of free speech. Brought up on the Bible and the best traditions of Polish literature and culture, Brandstaetter, the self-appointed disciple of Adam Mickiewicz, could not but stand up to the challenge of anti-Semitic aggression.

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