Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewish community and contemporary Jewish writers. In a ...style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth’s secular Jewishness, with its own mysteries and humor, as most representative of the American Jewish experience. Thirty years into his career as a writer, Philip Roth remains known to most readers as a self-hating Jew or a flawed would-be comic. Philip Roth and the Jews shows Roth the ironist, the master of absurdity, for whom twentieth-century America and modern Jewish history resonate with each other’s signal accomplishments and anxieties. Roth’s “egoism” is a persona, an abashed moralist discomfited by the world. Cooper shows that in the “Jewish” works Roth has taken the pulse of America and read the pressures of the world. Modernism, the universal tug for individual sovereignty and against tribal definition, is an issue everywhere. Roth’s own odyssey of betrayal, loss, and return—the pattern of the Jewish writer in the last 200 years—is so shaped by his origins that Roth has carried his home and neighborhood into the corners of the earth and thus never left them.
Throughout, Berlinerblau confronts the critics of Roth --as well as his defenders, many of whom were uncritical friends of the famous author--arguing that the man taught us all to doubt "pastorals," ...whether in life or in our intellectual discourse.
Legume cover crops are often considered a valuable alternative for supplying nitrogen (N) to cropping systems. However, certain pathways of N released from their residues to successor crops remain ...unclear.
Aiming to assess N contribution and residual N from hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) cover crop in succeeding crops, we examined i) soil N availability and mineralizable-N, ii) crop yields, and iii) plant N sourcing within the soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping sequence in the southeastern Argentine Pampas.
Three field experiments were conducted over three seasons: E1 (2018/19), E2 (2019/20), and E3 (2020/2021) in the southeast of Buenos Aires province. The crop sequence studied was hairy vetch/soybean-wheat. Factors investigated were hairy vetch inclusion and bare fallow, and wheat N fertilizer (150 and 0 kg N ha−1). Hairy vetch aboveground dry matter and its N concentration were measured at hairy vetch termination and six times thereafter (residues) during the succeeding soybean, using the litter bag method. Soybean biomass, N concentration, and the relative abundance of ureides (RAU) as an indicator of N fraction derived from biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), were examined. Soil NO3--N and anaerobically incubated N (Nan) were sampled during the soybean season and at wheat sowing. At physiological maturity, soybean and wheat grain yields, along with grain N concentrations, were determined.
Hairy vetch N released during soybean season ranged from 79 to 175 kg N ha−1. Soil NO3--N content at soybean sowing increased 5.5 kg ha−1 per Mg of hairy vetch dry matter, while Nan increased 3.6 mg kg−1 per Mg of hairy vetch dry matter. Soybean seed yields, seed N content, and N uptake showed no significant change with increased hairy vetch dry matter. Likewise, RAU at R5 decreased from 2.4 to 5.5 units (%) per Mg of hairy vetch dry matter. Concerning wheat, hairy vetch produced a slight increase in soil residual N at sowing. Only in one experiment (E1), hairy vetch dry matter led to improvements in wheat grain yield and N content.
Our study outlined new insights into hairy vetch N contribution, primarily linked to increased soil N availability in the immediate soybean, the relatively higher soybean N uptake from soil compared to BNF, and the dilution of soil N contribution to wheat as second crop in the sequence.
These findings support the recommendation of using hairy vetch as a predecessor for an immediate cereal or non-N fixing crops.
•Nitrogen (N) dynamics were studied in a hairy vetch – soybean – wheat sequence.•Hairy vetch increased soil nitrate-N and mineralizable-N for the following soybean.•Increased hairy vetch N residues decreased soybean N fixation at the seed filling stage.•Hairy vetch neither affected subsequent soybean yields nor its total N uptake.•Hairy vetch marginally increased soil nitrate-N but did not affect mineralizable-N for wheat.
Tensions among different subjectivities along the axes of socioeconomic class, gender performance, and urban homosociability informed Argentinean homosexuals' cultural expressions and militant ...strategies between the 1950s and 1980s. The homophile politics of respectability and the liberationist activism against the bourgeois moral order were rooted in the conflictive relationship between "entendidos," or middle- to upper-class homosexuals who valued decorum and a self-disciplined masculinity, and working-class "maricas," who performed a sexualized and hedonist femininity. Relationships with the transnational sexual dissidence movement emanated from and highlighted the political potential of these subjectivities. At the same time, the repressive context of the mid-1970s strengthened the role of international solidarity networks, which contributed to the continuity of the Argentinean Homosexual Liberation Front's struggles after its dissolution in 1976.
Un diálogo entre los relatos “Ante la Ley” de Kafka y La leyenda del santo bebedor de Roth, dos relatos cuya datación casi coincide literalmente con el periodo de entreguerras, propicia una ...comparación de interpretaciones en la que participan Benjamin, Arendt, Mann, Scholem, Adorno, Steiner, Magris... Al fondo de esa comparación surge una pregunta por la justicia que en manos de autores como Hugo Bergmann, Frank Rosenzweig y Martin Buber dio pie a un replanteamiento del judaísmo centroeuropeo, hoy casi olvidado, que sin embargo testimonia más allá de la crisis del hebraísmo la de la propia cultura europea.
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