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The Evolution of a New Industry

A Genealogical Approach

By: Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira

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The Evolution of a New Industry

A Genealogical Approach

By: Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira

The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution. In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational knowledge of how to found new ventures, as well as an intricate network of support for new firms. Following the evolution of this industry from embryonic to mature, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, and Zur Shapira develop a genealogical approach that relies on looking at the sector in the way that one might consider a family tree. The principles of this genealogical analysis enable them to draw attention to the dynamics of industry evolution, while relating the effects of the parent companies' initial conditions to their respective corporate genealogies and imprinting potential. The text suggests that genealogical evolution is a key mechanism for understanding the rate and extent of founding new organizations, comparable to factors such as opportunity structures, capabilities, and geographic clusters.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783993

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A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood

Fluidity as the Path to Settling Down

By: Shmuel Shulman

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A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood

Fluidity as the Path to Settling Down

By: Shmuel Shulman

In recent years, fewer young people make a smooth and linear transition to adulthood. The age of marriage has increased, and the lives of many young people are characterized by instabilities in both their careers and their romantic lives. These changes have been conceptualized as an extension of adolescence, with some arguing that this reflects the increased narcissism and self-absorption of "Generation me". However, when approaching the age of 30, the vast majority of young people are likely to have settled down. More than eighty percent have started a career or have a steady job (OECD, 2022) and more than two thirds are married or involved in a stable and intimate romantic relationship (U.S, Census Bureau, 2021)"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190841834

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9780190841836

The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy

A Study in Tradition and Survival

By: Shmuel Sandler

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The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy

A Study in Tradition and Survival

By: Shmuel Sandler

The conventional understanding of Israeli foreign policy has been that it is a relatively new phenomenon, with some claiming that the ‘Jewish People’ is an invention by mid-19th century Jewish historians, or simply an ‘imagined community’. This book disputes these claims by demonstrating that the Jews have a tradition of foreign relations based on an historical political tradition that goes back thousands of years, and that this tradition has been carried over to the State of Israel. The Jewish political tradition in foreign policy has always been defensive-oriented, whether under sovereignty or in the Diaspora. Power has generally been only a means for achieving survival rather than a goal in itself, whereas Jewish national identity has always been related to historical Zion. In order to explore the question of whether it is possible to identify patterns of international behaviour in the foreign policy of the Jews, the book begins with the Bible and continues through the period of the First and Second Temples, then looks at the long generations when the Jewish people were stateless, and ultimately concludes with an examination of the sovereign Jewish state of Israel. The underlying assumption is that an understanding of these characteristics will allow us to derive a better understanding of the Jewish origins of Israel’s foreign policy, which should in turn help to eliminate many of the harshest criticisms of Israel’s foreign policy. By presenting a nuanced and intricate examination of longstanding Jewish foreign policy principles, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Israeli Studies, International Relations and anyone with an interest in the relationship between religion and foreign policy.

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Routledge

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1351762710

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9781351762717

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

By: Shmuel Shepkaru

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Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

By: Shmuel Shepkaru

This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea. Instead, Jews like Philo and Josephus internalized the idealized Roman concept of voluntary death and presented it as an old Jewish practice. The centrality of self-sacrifice in Christianity further stimulated the development of rabbinic martyrology and the talmudic guidelines for passive martyrdom. However, when forced to choosed between death and conversion in medieval Christendom, Ashkenazic Jews went beyond these guidelines, sacrificing themselves and loved ones. Through death not only did they attempt to prove their religiosity, but also to disprove the religious legitimacy of their Christian persecutors. While martyrs and martyrologies intended to show how Judaisim differed from Christianity, they, in fact, reveal a common mindset.

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434

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Cambridge University Press

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0521842816

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9780521842815

A Daily Dose of Kindness

Stories from the Heart, A Response to Terror, Book One: in Love with Israel

By: Shmuel Greenbaum

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A Daily Dose of Kindness

Stories from the Heart, A Response to Terror, Book One: in Love with Israel

By: Shmuel Greenbaum

A collection of true stories about acts of kindness witnessed or experienced by the contributors.

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Partners in Kindness

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0578002035

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9780578002033

Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift

Rothenberg Festschrift : International Conference on Topology, June 1-5, 1998, Tel Aviv

By: Melvin Rothenberg,Michael Farber,Wolfgang Lück,Shmuel Weinberger

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Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift

Rothenberg Festschrift : International Conference on Topology, June 1-5, 1998, Tel Aviv

By: Melvin Rothenberg,Michael Farber,Wolfgang Lück,Shmuel Weinberger

This volume presents the proceedings of the Tel Aviv International Topology Conference held during the Special Topology Program at Tel Aviv University. The book is dedicated to Professor Mel Rothenberg on the occasion of his 65th birthday. His contributions to topology are well known-from the early work on triangulations to numerous papers on transformation groups and on geometric and analytic aspects of torsion theory. Current research related to those contributions are reported in this book. Coverage is included on the following topics: vanishing theorems for the Dirac operator, the theory of Reidemeister torsion (including infinite dimensional flat bundles), Nobikov-Shubin invariants of manifolds, topology of group actions, Lusternik-Schnirelman theory for closed 1-forms, finite type invariants of links and 3-manifolds, equivariant cobordisms, equivariant orientations and Thom isomorphisms, and more.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821813625

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9780821813621

Arithmetic Complexity of Computations

By: Shmuel Winograd

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Arithmetic Complexity of Computations

By: Shmuel Winograd

Focuses on finding the minimum number of arithmetic operations needed to perform the computation and on finding a better algorithm when improvement is possible. The author concentrates on that class of problems concerned with computing a system of bilinear forms. Results that lead to applications in the area of signal processing are emphasized, since (1) even a modest reduction in the execution time of signal processing problems could have practical significance; (2) results in this area are relatively new and are scattered in journal articles; and (3) this emphasis indicates the flavor of complexity of computation.

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SIAM

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1611970369

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The People's Duty

Collective Agency and the Morality of Public Policy

By: Shmuel Nili

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The People's Duty

Collective Agency and the Morality of Public Policy

By: Shmuel Nili

Nili develops a novel conception of 'the people', both as an agent with its own moral integrity, and as an owner of public property. Exploring problems central to present-day politics, this non-technical book will appeal to political theorists, but also to readers in public policy, area studies, law, and across the social sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108480926

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9781108480925

Integrity, Personal, and Political

By: Shmuel Nili

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Integrity, Personal, and Political

By: Shmuel Nili

Conventional philosophical wisdom holds that no agent can invoke its own moral integrity — no agent can invoke fidelity to its deepest ethical commitments — as an independent moral consideration. This is because moral integrity simply consists in doing what is, all-things-considered, the right thing. Integrity argues that this conventional wisdom is mistaken with regard to individual agents, but is especially misguided with regard to liberal democracies as collective agents. Even more than individual persons, liberal democracies as collective agents often face integrity considerations of independent moral force, affecting the moral status of actual political decisions. After defending this philosophical thesis, this book illustrates its practical value in thinking through a wide range of practical policy problems. These problems range from 'dirty' national security policies, through the moral status of political honours celebrating political figures of questionable integrity, to the 'clean hands' dilemmas of political operatives who enable media demagogues to scapegoat vulnerable ethnic and racial minorities.

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Oxford University Press

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0192603388

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Philosophizing the Indefensible

Strategic Political Theory

By: Shmuel Nili

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Philosophizing the Indefensible

Strategic Political Theory

By: Shmuel Nili

Philosophizing the indefensible asks what distinctive contributions political philosophers might make when reflecting on blatant moral failures in public policy - the kinds of failures that philosophers usually dismiss as theoretically un-interesting, even if practically important. This book argues that political philosophers can and should craft “strategic” arguments for public policy reforms, showing how morally urgent reforms can be grounded, for the sake of discussion, even in problematic premises associated with their opponents. The book starts by developing the general contours of this approach - defending its general moral value in a democratic society, and examining how far one might go in strategically deploying dubious or even repugnant premises in debating public affairs. The book then applies strategic theorizing to a set of diverse policy issues. These range from the abortion debate and financial regulation in the United States, through controversies surrounding the participation of Arab parties in Israel's political process, to global issues, such as commercial ties with oil-rich dictatorships, and the bearing of such ties on global climate change.

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Oxford University Press

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0198872186

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The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe

By: Shmuel Feiner

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The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe

By: Shmuel Feiner

Throughout the eighteenth century, an ever-sharper distinction emerged between Jews of the old order and those who were self-consciously of a new world. As aspirations for liberation clashed with adherence to tradition, as national, ethnic, cultural, and other alternatives emerged and a long, circuitous search for identity began, it was no longer evident that the definition of Jewishness would be based on the beliefs and practices surrounding the study of the Torah. In The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe Shmuel Feiner reconstructs this evolution by listening to the voices of those who participated in the process and by deciphering its cultural codes and meanings. On the one hand, a great majority of observant Jews still accepted the authority of the Talmud and the leadership of the rabbis; on the other, there was a gradually more conspicuous minority of "Epicureans" and "freethinkers." As the ground shifted, each individual was marked according to his or her place on the path between faith and heresy, between devoutness and permissiveness or indifference. Building on his award-winning Jewish Enlightenment, Feiner unfolds the story of critics of religion, mostly Ashkenazic Jews, who did not take active part in the secular intellectual revival known as the Haskalah. In open or concealed rebellion, Feiner's subjects lived primarily in the cities of western and central Europe—Altona-Hamburg, Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Breslau, and Prague. They participated as "fashionable" Jews adopting the habits and clothing of the surrounding Gentile society. Several also adopted the deist worldview of Enlightenment Europe, rejecting faith in revelation, the authority of Scripture, and the obligation to observe the commandments. Peering into the synagogue, observing individuals in the coffeehouse or strolling the boulevards, and peeking into the bedroom, Feiner recovers forgotten critics of religion from both the margins and the center of Jewish discourse. His is a pioneering work on the origins of one of the most significant transformations of modern Jewish history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201892

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9780812201895

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic Crises

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic Crises

By: Hemda Ben-Yehuda,Shmuel Sandler

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.

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SUNY Press

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0791452468

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9780791452462

Modern Arabic Poetry

1800 - 1970 ; the Development of Its Forms and Themes Under the the Influence of Western Literature

By: Shmuel Moreh

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Modern Arabic Poetry

1800 - 1970 ; the Development of Its Forms and Themes Under the the Influence of Western Literature

By: Shmuel Moreh

The purpose of this book is to trace the development of the differing forms employed in various liteary movements in modern Arabic poetry. This development seems to me the most important elemment in the understanding of the contemporary revolution in Arabic poetry. Moreover, this revolution is considered to be the first in the history of Arabic poetry in which the influence of foreign literature has been such that it las almost completely cut off modervn Arabic poetry from its classical heritage." from Introduction.

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Brill Archive

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9004047956

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9789004047952

The Evolution of a New Industry

A Genealogical Approach

By: Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira

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A Genealogical Approach

By: Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira

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The Evolution of a New Industry

The Evolution of a New Industry

A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood

A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood

The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy

The Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds

A Daily Dose of Kindness

A Daily Dose of Kindness

Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift

Tel Aviv Topology Conference: Rothenberg Festschrift

Arithmetic Complexity of Computations

Arithmetic Complexity of Computations

The People's Duty

The People's Duty

Integrity, Personal, and Political

Integrity, Personal, and Political

Philosophizing the Indefensible

Philosophizing the Indefensible

The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed

Modern Arabic Poetry

Modern Arabic Poetry

The Evolution of a New Industry

The Evolution of a New Industry

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