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These essays demonstrate that American political culture was fashioned in a dialogue between Federalists and Jeffersonians. They portray an active Federalist coalition that offered a vibrant intellectual and political alternative throughout the era of the early republic. Cutting across boundaries of region, culture, race, gender, and class, Federalists struggled with the problems of nation building, national identity, and economic development.

In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S....

The book deals with the stories of a few dozen Jews, Zionists, politicians, writers, poets, and public activists who passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their death. Only later, in an act of repair, their remains were sent to be buried in the sacred Zionist soil. Their graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel s symbolic landscape.

In his new book Doron Mendels addresses the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts. Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts, whilst working to examine four core themes. First, the narrator and his strategies in the historiography of the Hellenistic period. Secondly, Jewish Historical thought in the Hellenistic period and beyond. Thirdly, issues of Hellenization in Palestine - power, honour, gifting, etiquette and sovereignty and their presentation in...

Eine Frau befreit sich aus dem Selbstbetrug ihres Lebens

Tag für Tag steht Rivi Greenfeld am Fenster ihrer Wohnung und beobachtet das Treiben der Menschen auf der Straße. Doch inzwischen ist Neve Tzedek das angesagteste Viertel Tel Avivs, eine junge Unternehmerin will das Gebäude abreißen lassen, Rivi soll diesen Ort verlassen, der ihr ganzes Leben, all ihre Erinnerungen birgt. Aber Rivi ist eine kämpferische Frau: Als aller Widerstand zwecklos wird, beginnt sie, den Menschen zu schreiben, die ihr etwas bedeutet haben. Davon, wie ihr einst mächtige Männer des...

The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato's Politeia, a "site of memory" of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the...

Am Abend ein Anruf aus dem Hospiz: Yigal, ein Kindheitsfreund, den Lizzie Doron vierzig Jahre lang nicht gesehen hat, bittet sie, sein letzter Besuch zu sein. Aber warum ausgerechnet sie?

Yigals Erfahrungen in der israelischen Armee machten ihn zum Aktivisten gegen die Politik seines Heimatlandes. Als Tochter einer Holocaust-Überlebenden hielt auch Lizzie ihn für einen Verräter und wandte sich von ihm ab. Jetzt stellt sie sich der Frage, wer damals wen verraten hat. In den frühen Morgenstunden macht Lizzie sich auf den Weg. In der Hoffnung, den Kindheitsfreund noch ein letztes...