Shlomo Katz's Books

The Way of an Eagle in the Air

The Paintings of Shlomo Katz at the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel : a National Treasure

By: Shlomo Katz

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The Way of an Eagle in the Air

The Paintings of Shlomo Katz at the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel : a National Treasure

By: Shlomo Katz

This book features the powerful art of Shlomo Katz on display in the United States Air Force Cadet Chapel. The artist, who was commissioned by the Falcon Foundation, created nine special paintings as an extraordinary tribute to the United States Air Force. These works - presented in full-color reproductions in this book - are based on biblical themes of flying, justice, & brotherhood. The book, which cannot be mass produced because of the complexity of the printing, is 112 pages in a large format & includes a preface & an afterward. It is available in decorative cloth binding & in quality softcover editions. The brilliance & exquisite detail of the original paintings are replicated in six to eight inks instead of the four normally used in most color printing. Gold metallic ink captures the effect of the actual gold leaf used by the artist. Enlarged full-color details from the paintings illustrate points made in the text. Commentary on each work explains its relation to the biblical passage that inspired it. Lively interviews with the artist reveal fascinating insights into these paintings as well as unusual thoughts on art itself. Truly a book to be proud of.

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0962418102

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The Soul of Chanukah

Teachings Of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz

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The Soul of Chanukah

Teachings Of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz

“When the lowest person in the world was a child, he was dreaming about being the holiest, most glorious person in the world. But something happened. Someone destroyed his dreams, and he gave up on the world. It is so easy to lose our dreams. Why? Because nobody really encourages them. “If someone can bring me back to the dreams I once had, he is my best friend in the world. This is what Chanukah does. This is why Chanukah is the greatest, deepest holiday in the world. On Chanukah, God gives us back our dreams.” In this volume, the unique teachings and insights of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach are shared with a depth and relevance that is rarely appreciated. Eight days of fascinating and important ideas — a lifetime of inspiration and connection.

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Mosaica Press

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1937887219

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The Soul of Jerusalem

Teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz

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The Soul of Jerusalem

Teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz

There is a little land. In that little land, there is a little city. In that city there is a little street, and on that street there is a little wall. When you stand by that Holy Wall, you can hear the footsteps of our father Abraham, and you can hear the trumpet of the Great Day to come. You hear the past and you can hear the future. You can hear the singing of the Levites. Or, you can hear us crying, going into exile. You can hear the six million crying out of the gas chambers, and you can hear the trumpet of the Great Day to come. I was standing one early morning by the Holy Wall, and I was saying Kaddish for my father. But when you stand by that Holy Wall, you say Kaddish for the whole world. Sometimes you feel like saying Kaddish for your own soul, and sometimes you feel like saying Kaddish for tomorrow. Then you hear the words “Yisgadal V’yiskadash Shmei Raba — May G-d’s Name become great and sanctified,” and you remember there is one G-d, and you know that the Great Morning is coming. You know that day and night will get together. The living and the dead, we and the whole world. This is my song, the song of tears, because on that Great Day the tears will march through the world, and the whole world will join them. The tears will clear the world and prepare the world. Everything will come together. We will all come together. It will be a new morning – a new beginning. In this remarkable and life-changing work, the reader is transported to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem to be inspired by the teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach zt”l. Masterfully adapted by Rabbi Shlomo Katz (renowned musician and creator of the best-selling and acclaimed The Soul of Chanukah: Teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach), these teachings touch the soul.

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Mosaica Press

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1937887308

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Ambiguous Relations

The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945

By: Shlomo Shafir

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Ambiguous Relations

The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945

By: Shlomo Shafir

It is a comprehensive account of recent history that comes to groups with emotional and political reality.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814345077

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9780814345078

Exploring Heutagogy in Higher Education

Academia Meets the Zeitgeist

By: Amnon Glassner,Shlomo Back

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Exploring Heutagogy in Higher Education

Academia Meets the Zeitgeist

By: Amnon Glassner,Shlomo Back

This book explores heutagogy (self-determined learning) - a new approach to teaching and learning in higher education - and proposes a paradigm shift in teaching, learning, and the educational enterprise and ecosystem. The first part of the book presents the philosophical, psychological and sociological foundations of heutagogy, and describes lessons learned from prior experiences of its implementation. The second part presents a collaborative self-study of five heutagogy courses in higher education. The third discusses how the academic community can enhance the paradigm change, and compares heutagogy to similar academic approaches. The concluding chapter of the book explores the question of “what next”? and suggests some possible elaborations of heutagogy. “At the beginning, it was very difficult for me to appreciate the course’s mode of learning. All my life I had learned in a traditional manner. Occasionally I felt that I was being thrown into deep water without a lifeguard. ... But as the course progressed, I succeeded in letting go of my deeply rooted habits and discovered a new learning approach, through which I found in myself a new learner...” (Student’s reflection) “...this book suggests a novel approach to learning and education and will become a widely read one.” Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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Springer Nature

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9811541442

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Children's Imaginative Play

A Visit to Wonderland

By: Shlomo Ariel

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Children's Imaginative Play

A Visit to Wonderland

By: Shlomo Ariel

In this visit to the wonderland of children's imaginative, make-believe play, readers are be exposed to both a general, bird's-eye view of the whole of this fascinating realm, and to a closer look at its diverse regions. This volume examines the borderlines between make-believe play and akin phenomena such as dreams, drama, and rituals. Readers will become acquainted with the secret codes of make-believe play. These codes are activated in both covert and overt power struggles among children as well as in the child's internal theater of emotions. Readers will have the opportunity to examine these uses by looking at real-life sociodramatic play scenes. Also, the development of make-believe play and its interface with the child's general cognitive and socioemotional development is traced. This volume enables readers to consider children of various cultures at play, and investigates whether make-believe play and its characteristics are universal or culture-specific. Make-believe play has been investigated across fields including cognitive, clinical, developmental, and social psychology, as well as linguistics, anthropology, and sociology. In this book, a comprehensive, integrative model is proposed, in which all of these approaches are synthesized into a single, coherent whole. The unifying hypothesis behind this synthesis is that make-believe play is a semiotic system, a body of signs and symbols, a language by means of which children express themselves and communicate. This language enables children to regulate and balance both their inner emotional life and their social life. Another central hypothesis is therefore that make-believe play functions as an homeostatic feedback mechanism for controlling the level of arousal around the child's central concerns, as well as the level of interpersonal conflict around issues of social proximity and power. Therapeutic and education applications of make-believe play are derived from these hypotheses and their ramifications.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031301261X

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9780313012617

The Mellah Society

Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco

By: Shlomo Deshen

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The Mellah Society

Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco

By: Shlomo Deshen

The Mellah Society is a compact yet detailed and fascinating account of Jewish life in precolonial Morocco, based on the voluminous but rarely studied writings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Judeo-Moroccan sages. Shlomo Deshen, author of several books on North African Jewish immigrants to Israel, here turns his attention to the past. Taking as his focus the tension between individualism and communal authority—symbolized by the walls of the mellahs, the Jewish quarters—he applies to traditional Moroccan Jewish society questions of concern to sociologists everywhere regarding political organization, economic activity, religion, and the family. From such documents as private correspondence, archival photographs, and the legal commentaries of rabbis who served in the Jewish community courts, Deshen draws out details of daily life: disputes between spouses, businessmen, craftsmen, and inheritors; the ramifications of marriage contracts; and claims involving community taxes and extortions by Muslim potentates. Linking this material with recent historical and anthropological studies of the Maghreb, Deshen reconstructs a community about which little has been known and places it squarely within the context of traditional Moroccan society. Individual chapters deal with relations between Muslims and Jews, the material conditions of Jewish life, and the nature of politics within the mellah. Deshen devotes particular attention to the nature of the Moroccan rabbinate, the sociology of the mellah synagogue, lay community leadership, and the historic role of the Sephardic heritage in Morocco after the expulsion from medieval Spain. His close study of the nature of the extended family in traditional Morocco corrects popular misconceptions. Originally published in Israel in 1983, now translated and expanded by its author, The Mellah Society draws upon Middle Eastern and Jewish history, textual Judaic studies, and social anthropology to make an original contribution that will interest scholars of the Middle East and North Africa as well as anyone concerned with Jewish history and ethnicity.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226143406

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9780226143408

Blind People

The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis

By: Shlomo Deshen

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Blind People

The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis

By: Shlomo Deshen

Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that anthropologists ask routinely, but which are commonly avoided in everyday life because they touch on sensitive matters. Based on fieldwork in Israel, the book constitutes an ethnography of blind Israelis. It starts by focusing on intimate issues of the management of the sightless body, goes on to discuss the role of the blind person in the domestic setting, and moves to issues of how the blind person strives to attain material requirements. Finally, the book relates the way blind people cope with problems of associating with both blind and sighted people in arenas of leisure activity and public affairs. Deshen's book aims to present a truthful, dignified, fully human depiction, in the tradition of socio-cultural anthropology.

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State University of New York Press

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143840090X

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

The Jews in Sicily

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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Between Scylla and Charybdis

The Jews in Sicily

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious vicissitudes of the Jewish minority and its relations with the surrounding majority of Romans, Moslems and Christians. While the antecedents of the Jewish presence on the island are shrouded in mystery, more and more historical records surface with the passage of time.

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900419245X

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 6 (1458-1477)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 6 (1458-1477)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1458 to 1477. It is the sequel to the first five volumes and covers the events during the rule of King John. Although John continued the policies of his father Alphonso towards the Jews of the island, there is a distinct deterioration in their position during his times. After years of incitement by the members of the Mendicant Orders, anti-Jewish riots broke out in various parts of the Sicily. The worst of them was the massacre in Modica in 1474. During that period the Jewish minority of Sicily continued to flourish economically and socially. Nearly a thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island.

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9047414268

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9789047414261

Producing Redemption in Amsterdam

Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective

By: Shlomo Berger

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Producing Redemption in Amsterdam

Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective

By: Shlomo Berger

Yiddish was the basic Ashkenazi vernacular in the early modern period. The vast majority of the population was not educated and Yiddish books were printed in order to assist them with keeping a solid Jewish life. Being a basically German language and never being a canonical language as Hebrew, Yiddish also functioned as a buffer language between the internal Ashkenazi Jewish culture and the culture of the environment. Studying the paratexts added to printed Yiddish books may teach us about roles of the printed Yiddish word in Ashkenazi society: contents and forms of books, their contextual framework within Ashkenazi culture, the world of Yiddish book producers on the one hand, and the envisaged readership on the other.

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9004248064

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9789004248069

The Jews in Sicily, Volume 14 Notaries of Palermo and Notaries of Trapani

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 14 Notaries of Palermo and Notaries of Trapani

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the sixth volume of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs, and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication, most appearing here for the first time. While some documents are discussed at length, the majority are only presented in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

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9047443489

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9789047443483

The Excavations of Beth Shemesh, November-December 1912

By: Duncan MacKenzie,Shlomo Bunimovitz,Zvi Lederman,Nicoletta Momigliano

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The Excavations of Beth Shemesh, November-December 1912

By: Duncan MacKenzie,Shlomo Bunimovitz,Zvi Lederman,Nicoletta Momigliano

In 1909 the Scottish archaeologist Duncan Mackenzie, Sir Arthur Evans’s right-hand man on the excavations of the legendary ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos since 1900, was appointed ‘Explorer’ of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). From the spring of 1910 until December 1912 he was engaged in archaeological fieldwork in Palestine, especially directing excavation campaigns at Ain Shems (biblical Beth Shemesh) – an important site in the Shephelah of Judah at the crossroads of Canaanite, Philistine, and Israelite cultures. Mackenzie published the results of his work in various issues of the Palestine Exploration Quarterly and Palestine Exploration Fund Annual. Because of a financial dispute with the PEF, however, he never submitted a detailed publication of his very last campaign at Beth Shemesh, conducted in November–December 1912. In 1992 Nicoletta Momigliano rediscovered Mackenzie’s lost manuscript on his latest discoveries at Beth Shemesh, which one of his nephews had kept for nearly 80 years at his old family home in the Scottish Highlands, in the small village of Muir of Ord. At about the same time, Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman initiated new excavations at Beth Shemesh which considerably changed previous interpretations of the site. This volume presents Mackenzie’s detailed discussion of his last excavations at Beth Shemesh in the light of these more recent discoveries. Although written over a century ago, Mackenzie’s manuscript deserves to be better known today; it not only provides significant new information on this important site but also constitutes an intriguing historical document, shedding light on the history of field archaeology and of biblical archaeology. Moreover, Mackenzie’s pioneering approach to archaeological fieldwork and the significance of his finds can often be better appreciated today, from the perspective of more recent developments and discoveries.

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Routledge

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1317247949

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 10 Notaries of Palermo

Part One

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 10 Notaries of Palermo

Part One

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the second of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particulary the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

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9047419022

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 12 Notaries of Palermo

Part Three

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 12 Notaries of Palermo

Part Three

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the fourth of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particulary the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

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9047423496

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9789047423492

Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1948 War

Israeli Winter Offensive Operation Horev 22 December 1948–7 January 1949

By: Shlomo Aloni

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Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1948 War

Israeli Winter Offensive Operation Horev 22 December 1948–7 January 1949

By: Shlomo Aloni

Operation HOREV – the Israeli winter offensive from December 1948 until January 1949 – practically ended Israel’s War for Independence (also known as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War), with an Israeli victory that forced Egypt to seek ceasefire and to negotiate a settlement with the fledgling nation. From HOREV Day 1 on 23 December 1948 until HOREV Day 16 on 7 January 1949, this title presents Israeli Air Force missions during Operation HOREV in heretofore unseen depth and detail. This title chronicles Israeli Air Force sorties during Operation HOREV; from Austers and Pipers to C-46s and C-47s; from Messerschmitts, Spitfires and P-51s to Beaufighters and B-17s; Israel Air Force operations are detailed spanning the timeline of the conflict down to every unearthed sortie in depth, and shown in a way that Israeli Air Force operations during Operation HOREV had never been presented before. This level of detail has been made possible by extensive use of contemporary documentation. The detailed text is supported by numerous photographs and color profiles. Middle East@War - following on from our highly successful Africa@War series, Middle East@War replicates the same format - concise, incisive text, rare images and high quality color artwork providing fresh accounts of both well-known and more esoteric aspects of conflict in this part of the world since 1945.

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Casemate Publishers

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1913118169

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9781913118167

Theory and Structure in Addiction and Cure

By: Adi Ann Berkovic,Shlomo Giora Shoham,Efrat Vignansky-Addad

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Theory and Structure in Addiction and Cure

By: Adi Ann Berkovic,Shlomo Giora Shoham,Efrat Vignansky-Addad

This book will be of value to everyone interested in the prevention of addiction and the detection, treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts. It interprets and applies research findings about the causation and cure of drug addiction using the author’s personality theory which is extensively compared with that of other personologists. The book includes the qualitative analysis of 12 addict case studies. It is especially timely in view of the need for effective legislation, judicial procedures, and treatment programs to deal with the opioid crisis in the United States and Canada.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527524167

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9781527524163

The Jews in Sicily, Volume 18 Under the Rule of Aragon and Spain

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 18 Under the Rule of Aragon and Spain

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Sicily is the eighteenth volume of the two series and concludes them. It is a monograph describing the last centuries of the Jewish presence on the island, under the rule of Aragon and Spain and a sequel to the Introduction at the beginning of volume one. It is based on the documents contained in vols 2-17 and illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and its relations with the Christian majority. The records show that the Jews in Sicily were citizens and suffered from relatively few disabilities. This was true in particular in the economic sphere. No discriminatory legislation forced them into moneylending and trade in old clothes. They engaged in agriculture and industry, trade and commerce, including international trade and shipping, and in most professions, which in turn enhanced their social status. There was as an unusually large number of craftsmen and physicians among them. The majority, however, were labourers, on the land and in town. In the fifteenth century the Jewish population reached 25,000 or thereabouts. All this came to a sudden end with the expulsion order issued by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Some 80% of the Jews went into exile, while the remainder converted to Catholicism, only to be caught in the net of the Spanish inquisition. This volume is provided with addenda and corrigenda, additional bibliography and indexes.

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BRILL

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9004186557

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9789004186552

Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah

Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age

By: Shlomo Bunimovitz,Tzvi Lederman

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Tel Beth-Shemesh: A Border Community in Judah

Renewed Excavations 1990–2000: The Iron Age

By: Shlomo Bunimovitz,Tzvi Lederman

Excavations at Beth-Shemesh are actually a story within a story. On the one hand, they are the story of the archaeology of the Land of Israel in a nutshell: from the pioneering days of the Palestine Exploration Fund, through the “Golden Age” of American biblical archaeology, to current Israeli and international archaeology. On the other hand, they are the fascinating story of a border site that was constantly changing its face due to its geopolitical location in the Sorek Valley in the Shephelah—a juncture of Canaanite, Philistine, and Israelite entities and cultures. It is no wonder that two celebrated biblical border epics—Samson’s encounters with the Philistines and the Ark narrative—took real or imagined place around Beth-Shemesh. In this report, summarizing the first ten years (1990–2000) of archaeological work in the ongoing project of the renewed excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh, the authors have strived to tell anew the story of the Iron Age people of Beth-Shemesh as exposed and interpreted. Using the best theoretical and methodological tools that modern archaeology has made available, every effort has been made to keep in view archaeology’s fundamental duty—to read the ancient people behind the decayed walls and shattered pottery vessels and bring alive their lost world. Furthermore, the story of ancient Beth-Shemesh has been written in a way that will enable scholars, students, and other interested people to learn and understand the life of the communities living at Beth-Shemesh. As a result, the book is organized in a manner different from usual archaeological site reports. The two volumes will be essential for anyone who wishes the best and latest information on this important site.

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Penn State Press

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1575064537

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9781575064536

Preschool Peer Social Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Social Communication Growth via Peer Play Conversation and Interaction

By: Nirit Bauminger-Zviely,Dganit Eytan,Sagit Hoshmand,Ofira Rajwan Ben–Shlomo

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Preschool Peer Social Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Social Communication Growth via Peer Play Conversation and Interaction

By: Nirit Bauminger-Zviely,Dganit Eytan,Sagit Hoshmand,Ofira Rajwan Ben–Shlomo

This book presents the Preschool Peer Social Intervention (PPSI), a manualized comprehensive social curriculum to enhance peer-interaction for pre-schoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in three key domains: play, interaction, and conversation. The book outlines the PPSI’s transactional approach in each of the three intervention domains and incorporates developmental features and age-appropriate play, interaction, and conversation skills while accounting for individual differences in social communication abilities. The intervention is designed to be implemented within the child’s natural social environment, such as preschool, and it includes the child’s social agents, namely, their peers, teachers, and parents. PPSI intervention curricula addressed in this book are based on typical play, interaction, and conversation development, taking into account the social and communication challenges found to characterize young children with ASD in these domains. Building up the ability to play, interact and converse more efficiently with peers may render a substantial impact on preschoolers with ASD, with vast potential for improving not only these children’s immediate social experience with peers, but also their future social competence that relies on these early building blocks.

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Springer Nature

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3030790800

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9783030790806

The Mission and Message of Music

Building Blocks to the Aesthetics of Music in our Time

By: Michal Smoira Cohn,Shlomo Giora Shoham

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The Mission and Message of Music

Building Blocks to the Aesthetics of Music in our Time

By: Michal Smoira Cohn,Shlomo Giora Shoham

This book is an English re-writing of the original Hebrew edition, published by Dvir Publishing House, in 2007, and written jointly with the late Herzl Shmueli. The book probes into the nature and quality of the beauty and meaning of music. According to the authors, these have to be found within the musical phenomena themselves and serve as the basis for the aesthetical criteria of all music. They maintain that similar to every linguistic phenomena, music is a message in sound that moves, within a certain time limit, from musician to listener. The musician on the one hand, and the listener on the other, are the two focal points between which the musical process takes place. Music is thus a covenant between the musician and the listener. One sends the musical message, the other takes it up and internalizes it; one is the initiator, the other proves the successful outcome of the artistic process. The book is intended for music connoisseurs and for all who are intersted in artistic thought, in general, and in musical thoughts in particular. Every professional concept that had to be included in the book is duly explained, so that any interested reader is able to broaden the scope of his/her outlook.

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 2 (1302-1391)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 2 (1302-1391)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily for most of the fourteenth century. It is the sequel to the first volume on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events of the first century of Aragonese rule over the island. During that period, often unsettled by political upheavals, the Jewish minority flourished economically, but suffered, along with the rest of the population, during civil war and uprisings of the barons. Some thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown, local authorities and notaries compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in preceding centuries. Therefore, many documents had to be reported in summary form. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily, hitherto unknown or obscure, have been uncovered and illustrated. The volume is again provided with a bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island.

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Ark in the Authentic Domain

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

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Ark in the Authentic Domain

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

This volume is an innovative exposition of the person and teaching of Rabbi Johanan Ben Zakkai (the Rivaz), the 1st century Jewish sage who crossed the lines over to emperor Vespasian during the siege of Jerusalem. He proclaimed that for the Jews the learning of the Torah was even more essential than independence. Hence, he asked for permission to study the Torah at Jabneh, where after the destruction of the Second Temple he established the famous schools for religious studies. He is very controversial within Orthodox circles until this very day. However, we claim that he saved Judaism as it is studied and upheld throughout the generations of scholarship in the diasporas of Babylon, Spain, North Africa and Europe. The story and the saga of Rabbi Johanan Ben Zakkai is presented in this volume within the context of the history of the Jews and Judaism.

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Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews

By: Shlomo Aronson

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Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews

By: Shlomo Aronson

This book examines the doomed political situation of the Jews in Germany under Nazi rule.

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 5 (1440-1457)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 5 (1440-1457)

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume in the series "Documentary History of the Jews in Italy" illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily from 1440 to 1457. It is the sequel to the first four volumes and covers the events during the second half of the rule of King Alphonso the Magnanimous. The King continued to take a personal interest in the affairs of the Jewish communities, but abolished the office of dienchelele, chief justice. Instead, the Jewish communities were again governed by their local leaders, lay and spiritual. During that period the Jewish minority of Sicily continued to flourish economically and socially, although the first ominous signs of change began to appear. Some 800 documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered. The abundance of historical records in the archives of the Crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuries. Therefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary form. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the Jews of the island.

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Transgenic Xenopus

Microinjection Methods and Developmental Neurobiology

By: Shlomo Seidman,Hermona Soreq

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Transgenic Xenopus

Microinjection Methods and Developmental Neurobiology

By: Shlomo Seidman,Hermona Soreq

Annotation Explains techniques for microinjecting foreign genes into transgenic embryos of frogs and the information such research can provide about the role and spatiotemporal regulation of nervous system proteins during vertebrate development. Explains the basic scientific background and protocols, development, in vitro fertilization and microinjection, and a variety of biochemical and histochemical techniques for analyzing the results of the experiment. Also presents extensive data gathered by the approach. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 13 Notaries of Palermo

Part Four

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews in Sicily, Volume 13 Notaries of Palermo

Part Four

By: Shlomo Simonsohn

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy is the fifth of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particulary the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series.

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Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families

From Distress to Hope

By: Terry S Trepper,Shlomo A Sharlin

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Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families

From Distress to Hope

By: Terry S Trepper,Shlomo A Sharlin

Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope offers you integrated theories, practice, and research to provide you with the tools to be more effective when dealing with families in crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families explores the decline of families into extreme distress and helps you to determine the best intervention for that particular family, as no one single method can be prescribed for all families. Therapists as well as clients favor the joint-goal intervention you will discover through this book, which is carried out mostly in the family home where the therapist can delegate authority as a means of strengthening and preserving the family. Through Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families, you will receive a plethora of ideas which consist of multiple intervention techniques and alternatives for intervention, including: learning to organize institutions in the community to participate in getting families in extreme distress out of their long and perpetual predicament teaching you how cooperation between various government organizations, public and private, can be solicited for the welfare of these families offering you an anthro-psycho-social model of intervention that you will find effective in your own practice examining case studies so you can see how the new model works in real-life settings Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is unique because not only does it offer you help with supervision and training aspects, but because it also ends with a qualitative and quantitative research evaluation of this new model. Comprehensive and thorough, this book deals with the difficulties that may arise to interfere with the effectiveness of the intervention so you can learn from it and prevent further crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is a must for anyone working with families in crisis.

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1135408734

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Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 14 Edition: South Asia Edition, 2 Vol SET - E-Book

By: Shlomo Melmed,Ronald Koenig,Clifford J. Rosen,Richard J. Auchus,Allison B. Goldfine

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Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 14 Edition: South Asia Edition, 2 Vol SET - E-Book

By: Shlomo Melmed,Ronald Koenig,Clifford J. Rosen,Richard J. Auchus,Allison B. Goldfine

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 14 Edition: South Asia Edition, 2 Vol SET - E-Book

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8131262162

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Collaborative Recommendations: Algorithms, Practical Challenges And Applications

By: Shlomo Berkovsky,Ivan Cantador,Domonkos Tikk

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Collaborative Recommendations: Algorithms, Practical Challenges And Applications

By: Shlomo Berkovsky,Ivan Cantador,Domonkos Tikk

Recommender systems are very popular nowadays, as both an academic research field and services provided by numerous companies for e-commerce, multimedia and Web content. Collaborative-based methods have been the focus of recommender systems research for more than two decades.The unique feature of the compendium is the technical details of collaborative recommenders. The book chapters include algorithm implementations, elaborate on practical issues faced when deploying these algorithms in large-scale systems, describe various optimizations and decisions made, and list parameters of the algorithms.This must-have title is a useful reference materials for researchers, IT professionals and those keen to incorporate recommendation technologies into their systems and services.

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9813275367

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International Adjudication on Trial

The Effectiveness of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

By: Sivan Shlomo Agon

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International Adjudication on Trial

The Effectiveness of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

By: Sivan Shlomo Agon

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system (DSS) effective? How exactly is the effectiveness of this adjudicative system to be defined and measured? Is its effectiveness all about compliance? If not, what goals, beyond compliance, is the WTO DSS expected to achieve? Has it fulfilled these objectives so far, and how can their achievement and the system's effectiveness be enhanced in the future? Building on a theoretical model derived from the social sciences, this book lays down the analytical framework required to answer these questions, while crafting a revealing insider's account of the WTO DSS-one of the most important and debated sites of the evolving international judiciary. Drawing on interviews with WTO adjudicators, WTO Secretariat staff, ambassadors, trade delegates, and trade lawyers, the book offers an elaborate analysis of the various goals steering the DSS's work, the diverse roles it plays, the challenges it confronts, and the outcomes it produces. Through this insider look at the WTO DSS and detailed examination of landmark trade disputes, the book uncovers the oft-hidden dynamics of WTO adjudication and provides fresh perspective on the DSS's operation and the undercurrents affecting its effectiveness. Given the pivotal role the WTO DSS has assumed in the multilateral trading regime since its inception in 1995 and the systemic pressures it has recently come to face, this book makes an important contribution towards understanding and measuring the benefits (as well as the costs) this adjudicative body generates, while providing valuable insights into current debates on its reform.

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Oxford University Press

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0191093351

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Pituitary Disorders, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

By: Anat Ben-Shlomo

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Pituitary Disorders, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

By: Anat Ben-Shlomo

This issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics, edited by Drs. Anat Ben-Shlomo and Maria Fleseriu, is devoted to Pituitary Disorders. Articles in this issue include: Pathogenesis of Pituitary Tumors; Prognostic Clinicopathological Classification of Pituitary Adenomas; Familial Isolated Pituitary Adenomas (FIPA) and Mutations in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Interacting Protein (AIP) Gene; Pitfalls of IGF1 and GH Assays; Acromegaly: Pharmacotherapy; Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal Axis Testing; Pharmacotherapy of Cushing Disease: New Targets; Prolactinomas; Non-functioning Pituitary Tumors; Cabergoline Use for Pituitary Tumors and Valvular Disorders; Aggressive Atypical Pituitary Tumors and Carcinoma; Outcomes of Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery; Efficacy and Complications of Pituitary Irradiation; Hypopituitarism: GH and ACTH Deficiency; Hypophysitis; Hypopituitarism After Traumatic Brain Injury; Quality of Life in Pituitary Diseases; Pituitary and Bone Disease; Pituitary Tumor Management in Pregnancy; and Pituitary Apoplexy.

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032335677X

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Mathematics, Education, and Other Endangered Species

From Intuition to Inhibition

By: Shlomo Vinner

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Mathematics, Education, and Other Endangered Species

From Intuition to Inhibition

By: Shlomo Vinner

This book examines the critical roles and effects of mathematics education. The exposition draws from the author’s forty-year mathematics career, integrating his research in the psychology of mathematical thinking into an overview of the true definition of math. The intention for the reader is to undergo a “corrective” experience, obtaining a clear message on how mathematical thinking tools can help all people cope with everyday life. For those who have struggled with math in the past, the book also aims to clarify that math learning difficulties are likely a result of improper pedagogy as opposed to any lack of intelligence on the part of the student. This personal treatise will be of interest to a variety of readers, from mathematics teachers and those who train them to those with an interest in education but who may lack a solid math background.

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3319900358

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Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing

Semantic and Aesthetic Modeling

By: Shlomo Dubnov,Kevin Burns,Yasushi Kiyoki

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Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing

Semantic and Aesthetic Modeling

By: Shlomo Dubnov,Kevin Burns,Yasushi Kiyoki

The ability to communicate cultural codes in multimedia depends on their meaning and beauty, as perceived by different audiences around the globe. In this book, the ongoing research on computational modeling of visual, musical and textual contents is described in terms of identifying and mapping their semantic representations across different cultures. The underlying psychology of sense-making is quantified through analysis of aesthetics in terms of organizational and structural aspects of the contents that influence an audience’s formation of expectations for future signals, violations of these expectations, and explanations of their meaning. Complexity-accuracy tradeoffs in sound representation are further used to develop new computational methods that capture poietic and aesthetic aspects in music communication. Experimental studies are reported that try to characterize preferences for complexity in abstract, classical and traditional art and music across samples of Western and Far Eastern cultures. These experiments illustrate how aesthetics can be computed in terms of semantic and information measures, highlighting commonalities and uncovering differences in aesthetic preferences across cultures and individuals.

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Israeli Mirage III and Nesher Aces

By: Shlomo Aloni

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Israeli Mirage III and Nesher Aces

By: Shlomo Aloni

Israeli delta fighters pilots have been credited with almost 300 kills between 1966 and 1974, and dozens of them became aces. The Israeli aerial kill exchange rate and overall air-to-air performance was phenomenal. Although the Israeli pilots were flying Mach 2 fighters, they lacked any modern radar equipment and their MiG-21 flying opponents should have had a performance edge over them. This book details their most signifcant engagements, many of which were essentially World War 2 style dogfights fought with jet aircraft. Because neither side had the combat edge to disengage at will most engagements were a life and death struggle and the introduction of air-to-air missiles and the Israeli Nesher was to prove decisive in this theatre.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782008519

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9781782008514

Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat

By: Shlomo Aloni

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Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat

By: Shlomo Aloni

Post-Yom Kippur War, Israel purchased the F-15 Eagle, the then world's best air-to-air fighter, in an effort to prevent another surprise attack from the air. For the first time in its history the IDF/AF operated a fighter that was a full generation ahead of opposing interceptors in the region. The first 'kill' F-15 Baz (Buzzard) arrived in Israel in 1976 and soon proved its worth in combat. Israeli Baz pilots were credited with 12.5 kills between 1979 and 1981, with 33 victories following during the June 1982 Lebanon War. Despite substantial combat, no Israeli F-15 has ever been lost to enemy action. In the 1990s the US government supplied the IDF/AF with the F-15I Ra'am (Thunder) to fulfill the long-range surface-to-surface missile mission post-Desert Storm. From A to I, the extremely capable, and combat-tested, Israeli F-15 force will continue to deter potential enemies well into the foreseeable future. This book examines the history and development of these units.

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1472800311

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David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

By: Shlomo Aronson

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David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

By: Shlomo Aronson

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the 'Jewish renaissance'. The resulting reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's actual role as a major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.

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1139492446

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Politics and Education in Israel

Comparisons with the United States

By: Shlomo Swirski

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Politics and Education in Israel

Comparisons with the United States

By: Shlomo Swirski

Politics and Education in Israel focuses on the meeting of European Zionists, Non-Zionist Middle Eastern Jews, and Palestinian Arabs in the Israeli school system, the introduction of ability groupings into Israeli schools, the privatization of education and the expansion of elitist schools.

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