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ITHAKA ASIAN STUDIES FACULTY SURVEY
(Ithaka S&R, 2018-02-19)
This report is the result of interviews conducted in the spring and summer of 2017 with the aim of determining the research, networking and publishing habits of Asian Studies faculty at the University of Washington, one of the most significant and extensive programs for the study of the region in the United States.
Hellfire and Revolution: The Jews of Odessa and the Works of Isaac Babel
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
At the turn of the twentieth century, on the western shores of Russia’s Black Sea coast, there lay
a city unlike any other Russian city. It was said that seven miles of hellfire surrounded the port,
separating the city’s enterprising and often rambunctious Jewish inhabitants from the quite life of
the Pale of Settlement’s ...
On The Origins Of Divisions Plaguing Today’s Ukraine
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
With this inquiry I attribute the causes of the divide in the east and west Ukraine
to the historical composition, religious affiliations, and political interests of the
Ukrainian people
American cinema in the USSR and Post-Communist Russia: cultural influence in open and closed societies
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
In the period of complications and antagonism between countries and governments,
public diplomacy and its cultural programs become crucial. And in this regard films can be a
very powerful and discreet public diplomacy tool capable of acting within foreign society. As
Joseph Nye had said, „Pictures often convey values more ...
Use of Profanities in discourse between Russian speakers: Status and dominance in Svojness
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
The use of profanity in discourse between Russian speakers creates inclusive and
exclusive relationship in speech and formulates an array of social divisions. “The „polarity‟ of
Russian styles of interaction might be linked with the „polarity‟ of conceptualizing people into
svoi „one‟s own‟ as opposed to čužie „alien/str ...
Jewish Identity in the Russian Cinema of early 1990s
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
Interest in all topics previously forbidden in the Soviet Union soared in the
decade between 1988 and 1999. New films about Stalinism, purges, ethnic conflicts,
youth subcultures, crime and corruption, often filled with sex and violence, flooded
movie theaters. Soviet filmmakers rushed to use freedom of expression. Among ...
The “Big Bang” of Pax Mongolica: The Political Legacy of Chinggis Khan– Empire, State or Mega-Tribe?
(The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center, 2015-05-02)
The relation between man and the state has occupied deliberations of philosophers since at least Plato and Aristotle. Man has physical substance - the state does not. So any link poses an ontological dilemma. The state consists of claims to territory and its resources, a defined population, a government, and organized instruments ...
“Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit”
(University of Washington Press, 2012)
This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last ...
Revivals and Awakenings in American Judaism, pt. 1
(2011)
No abstract or description.
Illegal Game Hunting by Russian Elite
(2016-04)
Illegal Game Hunting by Russian Elite