Georg Simmel was a German sociologist,philosopher,and critic.
Amos Nathan Tversky was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.
Robert Ezra Park was an American urban sociologist who is considered to be one of the most influential figures in early U.S. sociology. Park was a pioneer in the field of sociology,changing it from a passive philosophical discipline to an active discipline rooted in the study of human behavior. He made significant contributions to the study of urban communities,race relations and the development of empirically grounded research methods,most notably participant observation in the field of criminology. From 1905 to 1914,Park worked with Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute. After Tuskegee,he taught at the University of Chicago from 1914 to 1933,where he played a leading role in the development of the Chicago School of sociology.
Morris Raphael Cohen was an American judicial philosopher,lawyer,and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union coalesced into the "objective relativism" fermenting at Columbia University before and during the early twentieth-century interwar period. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.
The Culture of Critique series is a trilogy of books by Kevin B. MacDonald that promote antisemitic conspiracy theories. MacDonald,a white supremacist and retired professor of evolutionary psychology,claims that evolutionary psychology provides the motivations behind Jewish group behavior and culture. Through the series,MacDonald asserts that Jews as a group have biologically evolved to be highly ethnocentric and hostile to the interests of white people. He asserts Jewish behavior and culture are central causes of antisemitism,and promotes conspiracy theories about alleged Jewish control and influence in government policy and political movements.
Arthur Ruppin was a German Zionist proponent of pseudoscientific race theory and one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv. Appointed director of Berlin's Bureau for Jewish statistics in 1904,he moved to Palestine in 1907,and from 1908 was the director of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa,organizing Zionist immigration to Palestine. In 1926,Ruppin joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the Department for the Sociology of the Jews. Described posthumously as the "founder of German-Jewish demography" and "father of Israeli sociology",his best known sociological work was The Jews in the Modern World (1934).
The terms "self-hating Jew","self-loathing Jew",and "auto-antisemite" are pejorative terms used to describe a Jew whose viewpoints on a specific matter,especially issues relating to Israel,are perceived as antisemitic.
Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians were the Jewish inhabitants of the Palestine region prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
The National Library of Israel,formerly Jewish National and University Library,is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage. The library holds more than 5 million books,and is located in the Government complex near the Knesset.
Tzipi Hotovely is an Israeli far-right diplomat and former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom. She served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,Minister of Diaspora Affairs,Minister of Settlement Affairs,and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party.
Deborah Hertz,is an American historian whose specialties are modern German history,modern Jewish history and modern European women's history. Her current research focuses on the history of radical Jewish women.
Eliezer Paul Kraus,11 December 1904 –10 or 12 October 1944,was a Jewish Arabist born in Prague. He is the author of a number of seminal works on early Arabic philosophy,with a special focus on Arabic alchemy and chemistry. Some of his writings on this subject are still standard reference works in the field today.
The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was founded in 2001. The institute was started by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein. The institute is committed to the research of social and historical issues of contemporary Germany. The founder and first director of the institute was Yfaat Weiss. Since 2008,Amos Morris-Reich has been the director of the Bucerius Institute.
Jewish paper cutting is a traditional form of Jewish folk art made by cutting figures and sentences in paper or parchment. It is connected with various customs and ceremonies,and associated with holidays and family life. Paper cuts often decorated ketubbot,Mizrahs,and ornaments for festive occasions. Paper cutting was practiced by Jewish communities in both Eastern Europe and North Africa and the Middle East for centuries and has seen a revival in modern times in Israel and elsewhere.
Mark. H. Gelber is an American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture.
Rudolf Martin was a Swiss anthropologist,specializing in physical anthropology. Martin's second wife,Stefanie Oppenheim,survived him and edited a second (1928) edition of his physical anthropology textbook.
Anson Gilbert Rabinbach is a historian of modern Europe and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History,Emeritus at Princeton University. He is best known for his writings on labor,Nazi Germany,Austria,and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1973 he co-founded the journal New German Critique,which he continues to co-edit.
Stefanie Martin,born Stefanie Oppenheim was a German biological anthropologist.
The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary is a historical Hebrew dictionary. The first volume was published in 1908 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,while the last was published long after his death,in 1958 by his wife and his son. An important feature of the dictionary was its inclusion of various new words invented by Ben-Yehuda to describe modern objects which did not yet have words for them.
Dana Shem-Ur is an Israeli writer,translator,researcher,and polyglot.
