SCOTTSBORO ON THE DELAWARE Krasovic, Mark
Reviews in American History,
03/2013, Letnik:
41, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
In addition to the detailed descriptions provided by various witnesses, Knepper is able to tell us what the Horner's store looked like (a "narrow path slicing through the collection of battered ...furniture, ancient stoves, refrigerators, and assorted bric-a-brac climbing to the ceiling"), the extent of the Horners' injuries (Mrs. Horner's eyes were swollen and bruised and she had a bloody gash on the back of her head, while her husband had a lump "the size of a golf ball" on the top of his), and the first pieces of evidence collected (an intact green soda bottle and a broken brown one). ...Knepper's main concern, it seems, is less with fleshing out the relationship of the Trenton Six to the thick contextual soup of its own time and more with how it speaks to the present day and, in particular, what it can contribute to a larger critique of the American judicial system and its continued use, in many areas, of the death penalty.
In 1949 the majority of Yemenite Jewry-——more than 40,000 persons-——arrived in Israel. Their arrival was the result of an Israeli initiative, in cooperation with Jewish organizations and the rulers ...of Aden and Yemen. However, the gradual, planned departure turned into a hasty mass exodus that cost hundreds of lives. The suffering and the victims were mostly the result of failures by the organizers: the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in charge of the operation with the assistance of the Jewish Agency, and the government of Israel. Despite its catastrophic characteristics, the immigration from Yemen was described in terms of rescue, miracles, and redemption-——a combination of eschatological and orientalist concepts. In the following years "““Operation Magic Carpet"”” was commemorated in the naming of streets and was praised in literature, poetry, historical research, and in the collective memory of Yemenite Immigrants in Israel, becoming one of the establishing images of the relationship between the state and its Mizrahi citizens. It presented these Jews as victims of persecutions by hostile Arab rule, victims who were sentenced to poverty and to social and cultural degeneration. According to this image, Israel was portrayed as a rescuer of these wretched Jews.
Portrait of a Friendship DURHAM, JOYCE
The Mississippi quarterly,
12/2005, Letnik:
59, Številka:
1-2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
... what a loss it would be not to have access, for example, to Archibald MacLeish's passionate letters to Hemingway about poetry and art, the exchanges between Flannery O'Connor and others that ...reveal the difficulty of a white woman's hosting a Northern black writer in her Southern home town, and, of course, the sensitive and often moving confidences between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams.
In some accounts the West German miracle was faltering in 1950; it was rescued by an exogenous positive demand shock coming from the Korean War. But the 'Koreaboom' in West Germany never took place. ...Instead, the Korean War generated problems for the West German economy. A combination of more imports and higher importprices led to the loss of West German foreign reserves, precipitating a balance-of-payments crisis, which tested the postwar relations between victors and vanquished. The European Payments Union kept the postwar European economy away from the discontinuities and adverse changes that characterized the interwar economy
The State of Israel was established in the midst of a war for its survival, and its population doubled within three years by mass immigration. The Israeli governments opted for a system of ...far-reaching and direct intervention in the economy as a means of winning the war, meeting basic consumption needs, and sustaining a high investment ratio. The circumstances and ideological premises of this policy are discussed, and the major problems of evaluation spelled out.
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