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In 1905, the managing editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Isidore Singer (1859–1939), published an article in the journal Ost und West from a "bird’s eye perspective on the development of American Jewry in the last 250 years." In this historical overview, Singer eventually attested that Jewish scholarship in America had an "absolute dependency on the European motherland." This judgment was based on his disapproving view of the two American rabbinical seminaries that existed at that time. According to Singer, there were still no scholars at the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati of the "already American[-born] generation of Israel." In fact, Singer’s observation was appropriate because it applied to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA) in New York as much as to the HUC.3 Despite the history of Jewish settlement in America, around 1900 there was still no native Jewish scholarship in America. The scene was dominated by scholars educated in Europe, who often came with broken English and a strict academic sense of mission. In 1903, Kaufmann Kohler (1843–1926), born in Bavaria and trained at German universities, was chosen as the president of HUC. And a year earlier, Solomon Schechter (1847–1915) had been called to the JTSA in New York as its new president. ...
Paleogeographical, morphological, ecological, physiological, linguistic, archaeological and historical evidence is used to explain the origin and history of the domestication of the wild common carp. The closest wild ancestor of the common carp originated in the drainages of the Black, Caspian andAral seas and dispersed west as far as the Danube River and east into Siberia. The common carp today is represented by the uncertain east Asian subspecies Cyprinus carpio haematopterus and by the European Cyprinus carpio carpio. There is some reason to think that Romans were the first to culture carp collected from the Danube, and that the tradition of the "piscinae dulces" was continued in monasteries throughout the Middle Ages. We have much better documentation of carp culture in ponds of lay and clerical landowners in western Europe after the 11 th century. Distribution of the common carp west of the Danube's piedmont zone was clearly brought about by humans, as was its introduction throughout the continents. Some domestication in China may have occurred independently of similar activities in Europe, but most of the modern-day activities with the common carp in far east Asia are restricted to the domesticated common carp imported from Europe, or at best to hybrids of local and imported strains. The xanthic (red) common carp seem to have first appeared in early cultures of Europe, China and Japan but reached their fame through recent artificial selection of multicolored aberrants in Niigata Prefecture of Japan. In monetary value, production of the colored carp - the Japanese "nishikigoi" - now exceeds the production of carp as human food. As "swimming flowers" nishikigoi delight modem people as much as the taste of carp may have delighted the Romans and medieval folks at the beginning of carp domestication. The common carp is not only the most important domesticated fish but contributes over I million metric tons to world aquaculture. The surviving wild forms of the common carp are threatened or close to the fate of the aurochs, the ancestor of cattle, which became extinct in 1627.
Tanto Ernst Th. A. Hoffmann como Willibald Alexis reescriben en el Berlín de la Restauración el caso La Pivardiere, ocurrido a fines del siglo XVII en Francia (aquel en 1821 bajo el título "Die Marquise de la Pivardiere"; en 1843 como "Der Herr von Pivardiere" este); si bien ambas reescrituras se basan en la misma fuente, la causa célebre de François Richer de 1773 (probablemente leída en una traducción alemana por Hoffmann y ciertamente consultada junto con otras versiones por Alexis), estas reelaboraciones difieren notablemente: en este trabajo compararemos las narraciones mencionadas centrándonos en la caracterización de los personajes y la construcción del narrador, con la intención de indagar las implicancias que esto tiene en la visión de la criminalidad y del mundo que subyace a cada una; luego examinaremos cómo se reconstruye en cada caso el contexto en el que sucede la acción: mientras que en la versión de Alexis ese pasado es visto como alteridad que refuerza por contraste las ventajas y los progresos del aquí y ahora desde el que se (re)escribe, en la de Hoffmann la proyección de la acción a esa época pretérita propicia un reconocimiento de ciertas tendencias alarmantes del propio presente.
Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaft, verstanden als Spezialdiskurse, stehen, so die an dieser Stelle vertretene These, in einem wechselseitig-kommunikativen Verhältnis, das sich sowohl im außerwissenschaftlichen Interdiskurs Literatur als auch im Interdiskurs Geschichtserzählung niederschlägt. Die interdiskursive Konstruiertheit beider Erzähltextformen zeigt sich nicht nur inhaltlich an referentiellen Bezügen, sondern oftmals auch an (gemeinsamen) Erzählformen oder an paratextuellen Elementen. In den nachfolgenden Überlegungen werden die Interferenzen von Geschichtserzählungen und historischen Romanen in den Blick genommen, um an geeigneten Beispielen die konkrete Überführung von Spezialwissen in einen Interdiskurs aufzuzeigen und zu diskutieren. Zugleich soll ein Vergleichsrahmen eröffnet werden, der die Interdiskursivität beziehungsweise interdiskursive Konstruiertheit von Historiografie und Literatur einander gegenübergestellt. Dabei müssen diskursanalytische und narratologische Ansätze miteinander verbunden werden, um der Komplexität des Untersuchungsgegenstandes gerecht werden zu können. Die zu berücksichtigende Textauswahl beschränkt sich auf die zwei Romane "Imperium" und "Der Komet" und den geschichtswissenschaftlichen Text "The Boy", die in unterschiedlicher Weise interdiskursiv konstruiert sind. Beide Romane, und das ist neben einem allgemein historischen Sujet eines der wenigen inhaltlich verbindenden Elemente, verweisen in der fiktionalen Erzählung an verschiedenen Stellen auf Adolf Hitler und den Nationalsozialismus, und auch die faktuale Erzählung "The Boy" – erkennbar bereits am Untertitel "A Holocaust Story" – setzt sich mit dem Nationalsozialismus auseinander.
Geoffrey Burnstock will be remembered as the scientist who set up an entirely new field of intercellular communication, signaling via nucleotides. The signaling cascades involved in purinergic signaling include intracellular storage of nucleotides, nucleotide release, extracellular hydrolysis, and the effect of the released compounds or their hydrolysis products on target tissues via specific receptor systems. In this context ectonucleotidases play several roles. They inactivate released and physiologically active nucleotides, produce physiologically active hydrolysis products, and facilitate nucleoside recycling. This review briefly highlights the development of our knowledge of two types of enzymes involved in extracellular nucleotide hydrolysis and thus purinergic signaling, the ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases, and ecto-5′-nucleotidase.
O tema geral do presente artigo trata da antropologia histórica encontrada em “The Authoritarian Personality” e fundamentada em “Dialética do Esclarecimento”. Especificamente, abordaremos a conceituação que compreende as movimentações pulsionais (segundo leitura da teoria freudiana) enquanto natureza interna, fundamento da concepção da antropologia aqui debatida. Com isso, ao falarmos de antropologia e de natureza, não estamos nos referindo a concepções imutáveis e “biologizantes”, mas a noções históricas e contextuais. Para tanto, iremos nos voltar à “Ideia de história natural” adorniana, precisamente à dialética entre história e natureza. No texto, Adorno trata de dois movimentos de tal dialética: uma concepção de Lukács, para quem elementos da história se tornam naturalizados enquanto segundo natureza, o que pode ser exemplificado com o esquematismo hollywoodiano promovido pela indústria cultural; o segundo movimento, sob influência de Walter Benjamin, trata da transitoriedade histórica da natureza, quando resquícios arcaicos reprimidos pelo sentido histórico dominante ressurgem, tornando-se possibilidade de outra orientação histórica. Este debate se mostra importante justamente porque se encontra no cerne da relação entre economia-política/sociologia e psicanálise, os domínios teóricos mais relevantes para a primeira geração da Teoria Crítica. Por mais que pensemos que há uma antropologia implícita para Horkheimer e Adorno – que enxergariam o ser humano enquanto naturalmente agressivo e destruidor –, o nosso intuito é mostrar que, se a antropologia e a natureza são históricas, o ser humano age a partir da pulsão de morte justamente porque o meio social que o forma é ele mesmo dominador, violento, reificado e alienante.