Neville Wylie
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199547593
- eISBN:
- 9780191720581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547593.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter charts the evolution of the western European prisoner of war ‘regime’. It shows how Britain's experience of captivity during the Great War contributed to the development of a ...
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This chapter charts the evolution of the western European prisoner of war ‘regime’. It shows how Britain's experience of captivity during the Great War contributed to the development of a distinctively benign view on the issue of captivity, both within military and government circles and within society at large. It examines the part played by the United Kingdom government in drafting the 1929 Geneva Convention for POWs, and shows how closely the resultant POW regime reflected British interests and experience.Less
This chapter charts the evolution of the western European prisoner of war ‘regime’. It shows how Britain's experience of captivity during the Great War contributed to the development of a distinctively benign view on the issue of captivity, both within military and government circles and within society at large. It examines the part played by the United Kingdom government in drafting the 1929 Geneva Convention for POWs, and shows how closely the resultant POW regime reflected British interests and experience.
David Ellwood
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198228790
- eISBN:
- 9780191741739
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198228790.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, American History: 20th Century
The Wall St crisis of 1929 intensified but did not alter an emerging intellectual critique of the new forms of consumerist society emerging in America. Some of these views flirted with ...
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The Wall St crisis of 1929 intensified but did not alter an emerging intellectual critique of the new forms of consumerist society emerging in America. Some of these views flirted with totalitarianism but in reality the three major regimes developed their own distinctive relationship with the America-as-future question. Mussolini's Italy showed the most complex pattern, as the Duce was lionised by parts of the US élite. The Soviets thought they could borrow what they needed from US industry and Stalin refused to develop a specific analysis of American capitalism as such. Hitler had done so, but acted upon it only spasmodically, developing his own versions of Hollywood and Fordism. Meanwhile the radiant force of American corporations permeated Nazi Germany, while in the shadows a counter-culture listened to jazz and read book after book on the US.Less
The Wall St crisis of 1929 intensified but did not alter an emerging intellectual critique of the new forms of consumerist society emerging in America. Some of these views flirted with totalitarianism but in reality the three major regimes developed their own distinctive relationship with the America-as-future question. Mussolini's Italy showed the most complex pattern, as the Duce was lionised by parts of the US élite. The Soviets thought they could borrow what they needed from US industry and Stalin refused to develop a specific analysis of American capitalism as such. Hitler had done so, but acted upon it only spasmodically, developing his own versions of Hollywood and Fordism. Meanwhile the radiant force of American corporations permeated Nazi Germany, while in the shadows a counter-culture listened to jazz and read book after book on the US.
Bernhard Fulda
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199547784
- eISBN:
- 9780191720079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547784.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The 1920s saw the breakthrough of the tabloid press in Germany. By 1930, mass and tabloid newspapers held a marketshare of over 80% in Berlin. Despite their importance for the dissemination of news, ...
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The 1920s saw the breakthrough of the tabloid press in Germany. By 1930, mass and tabloid newspapers held a marketshare of over 80% in Berlin. Despite their importance for the dissemination of news, previous studies have completely ignored the mass press as a phenomenon. This chapter analyses the media image of the two radical parties, the KPD and the NSDAP, before the crucial Reichstag elections of September 1930. Particular emphasis is given to the depiction of violence, the construction of a media reality through press photography, and the use of cartoons to carry political messages in Berlin's mass newspapers. This book presents new evidence to explain the Nazi breakthrough in 1930 not with the alliance between Hugenberg and Hitler in 1929, but with the repeated splits within Hugenberg's Nationalist party, which happened in full view of the newspaper‐reading public.Less
The 1920s saw the breakthrough of the tabloid press in Germany. By 1930, mass and tabloid newspapers held a marketshare of over 80% in Berlin. Despite their importance for the dissemination of news, previous studies have completely ignored the mass press as a phenomenon. This chapter analyses the media image of the two radical parties, the KPD and the NSDAP, before the crucial Reichstag elections of September 1930. Particular emphasis is given to the depiction of violence, the construction of a media reality through press photography, and the use of cartoons to carry political messages in Berlin's mass newspapers. This book presents new evidence to explain the Nazi breakthrough in 1930 not with the alliance between Hugenberg and Hitler in 1929, but with the repeated splits within Hugenberg's Nationalist party, which happened in full view of the newspaper‐reading public.
Kathleen Riley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199738410
- eISBN:
- 9780199932955
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738410.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
The inaptly titled (as it proved to be) Smiles of 1930 is the subject of this chapter. Despite its promise as a Ziegfeld production and its glamorous cast, which included Marilyn Miller, it failed ...
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The inaptly titled (as it proved to be) Smiles of 1930 is the subject of this chapter. Despite its promise as a Ziegfeld production and its glamorous cast, which included Marilyn Miller, it failed dismally. The show was blighted by production errors, financial problems in the wake of the 1929 financial Crash, a weak storyline produced by a less than sober writer, a co-star (Miller) with more beauty than talent, a composer (Vincent Youmans) who invariably arrived drunk for rehearsals, and frequent legal wrangling. After sixty-three performances, the show closed and the only members of the company who emerged from the disaster, with their professional reputations more or less intact, were the Astaires. It was during this period that Fred met his future screen partner, Ginger Rogers, when asked by producers Aarons and Freedley to review some dance routines for their current show, the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy. During the run of the unhappy Smiles Adele became engaged to Lord Charles Cavendish, who was then working in New York at J. P. Morgan.Less
The inaptly titled (as it proved to be) Smiles of 1930 is the subject of this chapter. Despite its promise as a Ziegfeld production and its glamorous cast, which included Marilyn Miller, it failed dismally. The show was blighted by production errors, financial problems in the wake of the 1929 financial Crash, a weak storyline produced by a less than sober writer, a co-star (Miller) with more beauty than talent, a composer (Vincent Youmans) who invariably arrived drunk for rehearsals, and frequent legal wrangling. After sixty-three performances, the show closed and the only members of the company who emerged from the disaster, with their professional reputations more or less intact, were the Astaires. It was during this period that Fred met his future screen partner, Ginger Rogers, when asked by producers Aarons and Freedley to review some dance routines for their current show, the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy. During the run of the unhappy Smiles Adele became engaged to Lord Charles Cavendish, who was then working in New York at J. P. Morgan.
Hasia Diner and Gennady Estraikh (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814720202
- eISBN:
- 9781479878253
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814720202.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The year 1929 represents a major turning point for interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place ...
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The year 1929 represents a major turning point for interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Joseph Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. This book surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other—from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish—regardless of where they lived. The book argues that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.Less
The year 1929 represents a major turning point for interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Joseph Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. This book surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other—from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish—regardless of where they lived. The book argues that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.
Matthew P. Fink
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195336450
- eISBN:
- 9780199868469
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336450.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
The book describes the developments that caused mutual funds to go from a virtually unknown financial product in the 1920s to the largest financial industry in the world today. It covers the ...
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The book describes the developments that caused mutual funds to go from a virtually unknown financial product in the 1920s to the largest financial industry in the world today. It covers the formation of the first mutual funds in the roaring ’20s; how the 1929 stock market crash, a disaster for most financial institutions, spurred the growth of mutual funds; the establishment in 1934, over FDR's objection, of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that regulates mutual funds; enactment of the Revenue Act of 1936, the tax law that saved mutual funds from extinction; passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the constitution of the mutual fund industry; creation of money market funds, which totally transformed the U.S. financial system; the accidental development of 401(k) plans, which revolutionized the way Americans save for retirement; and the late trading and market timing abuses, the greatest scandal ever in the history of the fund industry. The author was personally involved in developments over the past forty years, and much of the book is a personal narrative regarding the people and events that have shaped the mutual fund industry.Less
The book describes the developments that caused mutual funds to go from a virtually unknown financial product in the 1920s to the largest financial industry in the world today. It covers the formation of the first mutual funds in the roaring ’20s; how the 1929 stock market crash, a disaster for most financial institutions, spurred the growth of mutual funds; the establishment in 1934, over FDR's objection, of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that regulates mutual funds; enactment of the Revenue Act of 1936, the tax law that saved mutual funds from extinction; passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the constitution of the mutual fund industry; creation of money market funds, which totally transformed the U.S. financial system; the accidental development of 401(k) plans, which revolutionized the way Americans save for retirement; and the late trading and market timing abuses, the greatest scandal ever in the history of the fund industry. The author was personally involved in developments over the past forty years, and much of the book is a personal narrative regarding the people and events that have shaped the mutual fund industry.
Matthew P. Fink
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195336450
- eISBN:
- 9780199868469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336450.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
Securities firms and banks were major participants in the investment company business in the 1920s, sponsoring about 70 percent of all managed investment companies. Following the 1929 crash, ...
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Securities firms and banks were major participants in the investment company business in the 1920s, sponsoring about 70 percent of all managed investment companies. Following the 1929 crash, securities firms and banks exited the business, with banks' exit ratified in 1933 by the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited a firm from engaging in both banking and securities activities. Securities firms began sponsoring mutual funds in the 1970s. Banks sought legislation that would repeal Glass-Steagall barriers, but were blocked in Congress by the securities and mutual fund industries. Eventually banks gained entry into the fund business through a series of judicial decisions. Most recently a number of securities firms have exited the fund business, while banks continue to manage a substantial portion of fund assets.Less
Securities firms and banks were major participants in the investment company business in the 1920s, sponsoring about 70 percent of all managed investment companies. Following the 1929 crash, securities firms and banks exited the business, with banks' exit ratified in 1933 by the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited a firm from engaging in both banking and securities activities. Securities firms began sponsoring mutual funds in the 1970s. Banks sought legislation that would repeal Glass-Steagall barriers, but were blocked in Congress by the securities and mutual fund industries. Eventually banks gained entry into the fund business through a series of judicial decisions. Most recently a number of securities firms have exited the fund business, while banks continue to manage a substantial portion of fund assets.
Matthew P. Fink
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199753505
- eISBN:
- 9780199918805
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753505.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today, US mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. This book ...
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In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today, US mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. This book describes the developments that have produced mutual funds' long history of success. Among these are: the formation of the first mutual funds in the 1920s; how the 1929 stock market crash, a disaster for most financial institutions, spurred the growth of mutual funds; the establishment in 1934, over FDR's objection, of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that regulates mutual funds; and the enactment of the Revenue Act of 1936, the tax law that saved mutual funds from extinction. In addition the book details the passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the “constitution” of the mutual fund industry; the creation in 1972 of money market funds, which totally changed the mutual fund industry and the entire US financial system; the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which created Individual Retirement Accounts; the accidental development of 401(k) plans, which have revolutionized the way Americans save for retirement; and the 2003 trading abuses, the greatest scandal ever in the history of the mutual fund industry. Many events have never been discussed in detail; others have been discussed in works on other subjects.Less
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today, US mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. This book describes the developments that have produced mutual funds' long history of success. Among these are: the formation of the first mutual funds in the 1920s; how the 1929 stock market crash, a disaster for most financial institutions, spurred the growth of mutual funds; the establishment in 1934, over FDR's objection, of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that regulates mutual funds; and the enactment of the Revenue Act of 1936, the tax law that saved mutual funds from extinction. In addition the book details the passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the “constitution” of the mutual fund industry; the creation in 1972 of money market funds, which totally changed the mutual fund industry and the entire US financial system; the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which created Individual Retirement Accounts; the accidental development of 401(k) plans, which have revolutionized the way Americans save for retirement; and the 2003 trading abuses, the greatest scandal ever in the history of the mutual fund industry. Many events have never been discussed in detail; others have been discussed in works on other subjects.
Anne Witchard
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139606
- eISBN:
- 9789882208643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139606.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The period of China's utmost vulnerability, from the Boxer uprising of 1900 until the rise of the Nationalist Party in the mid-1920s, coincided with the mass-marketing of Chinese stereotypes and the ...
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The period of China's utmost vulnerability, from the Boxer uprising of 1900 until the rise of the Nationalist Party in the mid-1920s, coincided with the mass-marketing of Chinese stereotypes and the ‘discovery’ of London's Chinatown. The ways in which London's Chinese community came to represent national threat found its consummate expression in Sax Rohmer's tales of Dr Fu Manchu. After the war, things Chinese, Futurists, and louche West End nightclubs alike, were the target of hack writers and the popular press. Typical is a Daily Express article, headlined: ‘Nights in the Dancing Dens-When the Chinaman Takes The Floor’, describing a nightclub ‘decorated in the incoherent Futurist lines usual in such places’. London's fashionable cognoscenti enjoyed a renewed vogue for chinoiserie style. Paul Poiret's career took off when celebrity actresses and dancers adopted his controversial design for a loose-fitting Chinese-style coat while a studio shot in Chinese pyjamas was ubiquitous for every film starlet. Er Ma responds to the British fear and fascination for Chineseness, fanned by reports of Boxer ‘atrocities’ at the outposts of Britain's Empire, and the thrilling notion of a Yellow Peril at its very heart.Less
The period of China's utmost vulnerability, from the Boxer uprising of 1900 until the rise of the Nationalist Party in the mid-1920s, coincided with the mass-marketing of Chinese stereotypes and the ‘discovery’ of London's Chinatown. The ways in which London's Chinese community came to represent national threat found its consummate expression in Sax Rohmer's tales of Dr Fu Manchu. After the war, things Chinese, Futurists, and louche West End nightclubs alike, were the target of hack writers and the popular press. Typical is a Daily Express article, headlined: ‘Nights in the Dancing Dens-When the Chinaman Takes The Floor’, describing a nightclub ‘decorated in the incoherent Futurist lines usual in such places’. London's fashionable cognoscenti enjoyed a renewed vogue for chinoiserie style. Paul Poiret's career took off when celebrity actresses and dancers adopted his controversial design for a loose-fitting Chinese-style coat while a studio shot in Chinese pyjamas was ubiquitous for every film starlet. Er Ma responds to the British fear and fascination for Chineseness, fanned by reports of Boxer ‘atrocities’ at the outposts of Britain's Empire, and the thrilling notion of a Yellow Peril at its very heart.
David R. Roediger
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233416
- eISBN:
- 9780520930803
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233416.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter introduces the 1929 surrealist map of the world as an early attempt to identify Eurocentrism as a problem and to project a “nonwhite” alternative. Geographers often refer to attempts to ...
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This chapter introduces the 1929 surrealist map of the world as an early attempt to identify Eurocentrism as a problem and to project a “nonwhite” alternative. Geographers often refer to attempts to provide alternatives to imperialist projecting not as mappings but as “countermappings.” The surrealists' collective mapping project encouraged and even cultivated idiosyncrasy and inconsistency. The “Surrealist Map of the World” bears strong affinities to the brilliant “Destruction of a Map,” a 1978 collage by Haifa Zangana. Zangana's work boldly indicates that the labored and manly forces none too successfullly attacking the map are so musclebound by the trappings of a classical, Christian, and nationalist logic as to undermine their own effects. The 1929 surrealist remapping of the world demanded the active imagination of new worlds.Less
This chapter introduces the 1929 surrealist map of the world as an early attempt to identify Eurocentrism as a problem and to project a “nonwhite” alternative. Geographers often refer to attempts to provide alternatives to imperialist projecting not as mappings but as “countermappings.” The surrealists' collective mapping project encouraged and even cultivated idiosyncrasy and inconsistency. The “Surrealist Map of the World” bears strong affinities to the brilliant “Destruction of a Map,” a 1978 collage by Haifa Zangana. Zangana's work boldly indicates that the labored and manly forces none too successfullly attacking the map are so musclebound by the trappings of a classical, Christian, and nationalist logic as to undermine their own effects. The 1929 surrealist remapping of the world demanded the active imagination of new worlds.
David Pratten
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625536
- eISBN:
- 9780748670659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625536.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
This chapter examines the ways in which Ibibio and Annang made sense of colonialism and Christianity. It traces their cultural engagements with European rule and religion during the period that led ...
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This chapter examines the ways in which Ibibio and Annang made sense of colonialism and Christianity. It traces their cultural engagements with European rule and religion during the period that led up to the most significant watershed of the colonial period, the Women's War of 1929. It concerns the ways in which uneven relations of power, between men and women, educated and illiterate, titled and non-titled, were negotiated within shifting terrains of social, religious and political contest.Less
This chapter examines the ways in which Ibibio and Annang made sense of colonialism and Christianity. It traces their cultural engagements with European rule and religion during the period that led up to the most significant watershed of the colonial period, the Women's War of 1929. It concerns the ways in which uneven relations of power, between men and women, educated and illiterate, titled and non-titled, were negotiated within shifting terrains of social, religious and political contest.
Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813160887
- eISBN:
- 9780813165530
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813160887.003.0019
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
As this chapter begins, Ziegfeld produces an unlikely hit—an operetta of The Three Musketeers. Discussed are playwright William Anthony McGuire’s unprofessional, drunken behavior; backstage feuds; ...
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As this chapter begins, Ziegfeld produces an unlikely hit—an operetta of The Three Musketeers. Discussed are playwright William Anthony McGuire’s unprofessional, drunken behavior; backstage feuds; and Patricia’s propensity to fall in love with the leading men in her father’s productions. Ziegfeld’s production of Whoopee with Eddie Cantor is a phenomenal success and the producer’s fourth successive hit in the course of one year. Next he coproduces a film with Jesse Lasky, Glorifying the American Girl, although he still does not consider Hollywood a worthy rival. Ziegfeld reopens the Frolic, despite the fact that Prohibition is still in full swing. He then goes on to produce Show Girl and Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet. The latter show gets a lukewarm reception, mainly because it opens the same week that the stock market crashes. Ziegfeld loses everything but continues to produce shows. His next one, Simple Simon, flops, and he seriously reconsiders his views on Hollywood. The chapter concludes with Ziegfeld planning to explore career possibilities on the West Coast. Thanks to talking films, musicals are booming in popularity.Less
As this chapter begins, Ziegfeld produces an unlikely hit—an operetta of The Three Musketeers. Discussed are playwright William Anthony McGuire’s unprofessional, drunken behavior; backstage feuds; and Patricia’s propensity to fall in love with the leading men in her father’s productions. Ziegfeld’s production of Whoopee with Eddie Cantor is a phenomenal success and the producer’s fourth successive hit in the course of one year. Next he coproduces a film with Jesse Lasky, Glorifying the American Girl, although he still does not consider Hollywood a worthy rival. Ziegfeld reopens the Frolic, despite the fact that Prohibition is still in full swing. He then goes on to produce Show Girl and Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet. The latter show gets a lukewarm reception, mainly because it opens the same week that the stock market crashes. Ziegfeld loses everything but continues to produce shows. His next one, Simple Simon, flops, and he seriously reconsiders his views on Hollywood. The chapter concludes with Ziegfeld planning to explore career possibilities on the West Coast. Thanks to talking films, musicals are booming in popularity.
Jon K. Chang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824856786
- eISBN:
- 9780824872205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824856786.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
From 1923 to 1930, we witnessed the first half of korenizatsiia, that is, Soviet indigenization for the national minorities. Already there were major attempts to dismantle this program. Vladimir ...
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From 1923 to 1930, we witnessed the first half of korenizatsiia, that is, Soviet indigenization for the national minorities. Already there were major attempts to dismantle this program. Vladimir Arsenev called for the total deportation of the Koreans in 1928. Comrade Geitsman called them “aliens” to Soviet socialism, even those Koreans who were Soviet citizens. However, this did not deter the Koreans. Khan Myon She, a local Soviet Korean leader called out local Communist Party leaders for “ethnic chauvinism.” He was soon replaced by Afanasii Kim. Young educated Korean activists in the organization INKORPORE battled for equal land and rights for Korean farmers and settlers. Several regiments of local Red Army including one regiment led by Pen Khva Kim fought for the Red Army during the brief Sino-Soviet War (1929).Less
From 1923 to 1930, we witnessed the first half of korenizatsiia, that is, Soviet indigenization for the national minorities. Already there were major attempts to dismantle this program. Vladimir Arsenev called for the total deportation of the Koreans in 1928. Comrade Geitsman called them “aliens” to Soviet socialism, even those Koreans who were Soviet citizens. However, this did not deter the Koreans. Khan Myon She, a local Soviet Korean leader called out local Communist Party leaders for “ethnic chauvinism.” He was soon replaced by Afanasii Kim. Young educated Korean activists in the organization INKORPORE battled for equal land and rights for Korean farmers and settlers. Several regiments of local Red Army including one regiment led by Pen Khva Kim fought for the Red Army during the brief Sino-Soviet War (1929).
Lee Shai Weissbach
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804783637
- eISBN:
- 9780804786201
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783637.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
In this chapter the author continues the account of his activities with the Loan Bank in Palestine. Frieden seems to have considered his work to be at the core of his existence, and so the story of ...
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In this chapter the author continues the account of his activities with the Loan Bank in Palestine. Frieden seems to have considered his work to be at the core of his existence, and so the story of his life remains structured around a de- scription of his work. Here there is much detail about the operations of the Loan Bank and about its relationship with other financial institutions in Palestine, making Frieden’s memoir a very valuable source of information about the economic history of the Yishuv from an insider’s perspective. This section also provides unique glimpses into subjects such as Warsaw Jewish life in the interwar period; the inner workings of the Yishuv; and the violence that frequently accompanied the development of the Jewish community in Palestine between the two World Wars.Less
In this chapter the author continues the account of his activities with the Loan Bank in Palestine. Frieden seems to have considered his work to be at the core of his existence, and so the story of his life remains structured around a de- scription of his work. Here there is much detail about the operations of the Loan Bank and about its relationship with other financial institutions in Palestine, making Frieden’s memoir a very valuable source of information about the economic history of the Yishuv from an insider’s perspective. This section also provides unique glimpses into subjects such as Warsaw Jewish life in the interwar period; the inner workings of the Yishuv; and the violence that frequently accompanied the development of the Jewish community in Palestine between the two World Wars.
Asha Bajpai
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195670820
- eISBN:
- 9780199082117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195670820.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter provides an overview of the child rights in India. The Guardians and Wards Act 1890, Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956, Young Persons Harmful ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the child rights in India. The Guardians and Wards Act 1890, Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956, Young Persons Harmful Publications Act 1956, Probation of Offenders Act 1958, Apprentice Act 1961, Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971, Children (Pledging of Labour) Act 1933, and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000 are some of the provisions that deal with children. Some major policy and plan documents relating to children are described briefly. The Government of India is enforcing about 120 schemes and programmes for the welfare and development of children and women through more than thirteen ministries and departments. The child's right to development is crucial, both to safeguard the right to a future as well as the rights of future children.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the child rights in India. The Guardians and Wards Act 1890, Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929, Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956, Young Persons Harmful Publications Act 1956, Probation of Offenders Act 1958, Apprentice Act 1961, Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971, Children (Pledging of Labour) Act 1933, and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000 are some of the provisions that deal with children. Some major policy and plan documents relating to children are described briefly. The Government of India is enforcing about 120 schemes and programmes for the welfare and development of children and women through more than thirteen ministries and departments. The child's right to development is crucial, both to safeguard the right to a future as well as the rights of future children.
Gilya Gerda Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823243297
- eISBN:
- 9780823243334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243297.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In 1777 twenty Jewish families were given permission by the Counts of Liebenstein to settle in the village of Jebenhausen, just two kilometers from Göppingen. These families quickly increased and ...
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In 1777 twenty Jewish families were given permission by the Counts of Liebenstein to settle in the village of Jebenhausen, just two kilometers from Göppingen. These families quickly increased and before long nearly half the population of Jebenhausen was Jewish. One of these families was that of Salomo Ottenheimer, whose descendents later built a factory in Klein-Süssen. After the railroad was built from Plochingen to Göppingen in 1949, a number of the merchants relocated to Göppingen, where they built a synagogue in 1881. Göppingen had four different rabbis, the most important being Rabbi Aron (Arnold) Tänzer, who not only served the Göppingen Jewish community, but the Jews in the surrounding area as well as the non-Jewish population of Göppingen by building a library, teaching adult education courses, and by serving in World War I as a field chaplain. Rabbi Tänzer wrote the only history of the Göppingen Jewish community during its existence, our only source of information about that community. From it we learn about the religious, social, and cultural life of the Göppingen Jews. His second wife, Berta Strauss Tänzer, was deported to Theresienstadt where she was murdered in 1943. In 1929 the Jewish community of Göppingen celebrated Hanukkah at the Hotel Dettelbacher. A picture has survived from a play in which Hugo Lang, his cousins, as well as many of the other Jewish children from Göppingen participated.Less
In 1777 twenty Jewish families were given permission by the Counts of Liebenstein to settle in the village of Jebenhausen, just two kilometers from Göppingen. These families quickly increased and before long nearly half the population of Jebenhausen was Jewish. One of these families was that of Salomo Ottenheimer, whose descendents later built a factory in Klein-Süssen. After the railroad was built from Plochingen to Göppingen in 1949, a number of the merchants relocated to Göppingen, where they built a synagogue in 1881. Göppingen had four different rabbis, the most important being Rabbi Aron (Arnold) Tänzer, who not only served the Göppingen Jewish community, but the Jews in the surrounding area as well as the non-Jewish population of Göppingen by building a library, teaching adult education courses, and by serving in World War I as a field chaplain. Rabbi Tänzer wrote the only history of the Göppingen Jewish community during its existence, our only source of information about that community. From it we learn about the religious, social, and cultural life of the Göppingen Jews. His second wife, Berta Strauss Tänzer, was deported to Theresienstadt where she was murdered in 1943. In 1929 the Jewish community of Göppingen celebrated Hanukkah at the Hotel Dettelbacher. A picture has survived from a play in which Hugo Lang, his cousins, as well as many of the other Jewish children from Göppingen participated.
Barbara Lounsberry
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813056937
- eISBN:
- 9780813053790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056937.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter 1 begins with a swift summary of fascism's rise in both England and Germany from 1929 to 1931: or what I call “the war without.” It then notes Woolf's response, including her scrapbooks, ...
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Chapter 1 begins with a swift summary of fascism's rise in both England and Germany from 1929 to 1931: or what I call “the war without.” It then notes Woolf's response, including her scrapbooks, which collected articles on tyranny and war. As Woolf seeks out a bound diary book in June 1929 and embarks on her third and final diary stage, her mind also turns inward to the lonely artistic battle she foresees with The Waves. Both her diary and that novel reveal what she will further argue in Three Guineas: that the private and the public are inseparably linked. In October of 1929, Woolf publishes a tribute to “Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals,” a vivid illustration of her ability to choose diaries and to find in them just what she needs to assist her public prose.Less
Chapter 1 begins with a swift summary of fascism's rise in both England and Germany from 1929 to 1931: or what I call “the war without.” It then notes Woolf's response, including her scrapbooks, which collected articles on tyranny and war. As Woolf seeks out a bound diary book in June 1929 and embarks on her third and final diary stage, her mind also turns inward to the lonely artistic battle she foresees with The Waves. Both her diary and that novel reveal what she will further argue in Three Guineas: that the private and the public are inseparably linked. In October of 1929, Woolf publishes a tribute to “Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals,” a vivid illustration of her ability to choose diaries and to find in them just what she needs to assist her public prose.
Barbara Lounsberry
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062952
- eISBN:
- 9780813051833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062952.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Woolf’s 1928 diary offers the reflections of an artist at a juncture: “some uneasy sense, of change,” she writes in her first entry. Orlando’s completion and surprise success dominates this diary. ...
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Woolf’s 1928 diary offers the reflections of an artist at a juncture: “some uneasy sense, of change,” she writes in her first entry. Orlando’s completion and surprise success dominates this diary. However, the problem is what to write next. The artistic crossroads Woolf faces in November involves nonfiction and fiction, the external and the internal, and the will to explore. Woolf both probes and resolves the tension in two November diary entries. One answer is to refine her turn-and-turn-about tack. She will allow works of “talent” to relieve her works of “genius.” More importantly, she will try “to saturate every atom” to reach a deeper mix. Her loose-leaf diary experiment ends with the first 1929 diary, the final diary in her second, lean modernist stage. If Orlando unfurled across the 1928 diary, the first 1929 diary resounds with A Room of One’s Own. However, Woolf also readies herself for her coming battle with The Waves. She will need her courage as she begins “a time of adventure and attack, rather lonely and painful.” But her diary continues to help her; in fact, she moves at the end to give it even firmer life in a bound diary book.Less
Woolf’s 1928 diary offers the reflections of an artist at a juncture: “some uneasy sense, of change,” she writes in her first entry. Orlando’s completion and surprise success dominates this diary. However, the problem is what to write next. The artistic crossroads Woolf faces in November involves nonfiction and fiction, the external and the internal, and the will to explore. Woolf both probes and resolves the tension in two November diary entries. One answer is to refine her turn-and-turn-about tack. She will allow works of “talent” to relieve her works of “genius.” More importantly, she will try “to saturate every atom” to reach a deeper mix. Her loose-leaf diary experiment ends with the first 1929 diary, the final diary in her second, lean modernist stage. If Orlando unfurled across the 1928 diary, the first 1929 diary resounds with A Room of One’s Own. However, Woolf also readies herself for her coming battle with The Waves. She will need her courage as she begins “a time of adventure and attack, rather lonely and painful.” But her diary continues to help her; in fact, she moves at the end to give it even firmer life in a bound diary book.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318320
- eISBN:
- 9781846317873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317873.002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates ...
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This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates Eduardo Mendoza's La ciudad de los prodigios and its portrait of the historical specters of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and the International Exhibition of 1929. The link between democracy and the free market in Spain, the consolidation of the new stage of capitalism, and the redefinition of space in postmodernity are analysed. This chapter suggests that Mendoza's novel uncovers the spectralisation of the present.Less
This chapter concentrates on specters of the past that might have haunted the euphoric politics of Barcelona. It presents a brief look at the turbulent history of modern Barcelona. It investigates Eduardo Mendoza's La ciudad de los prodigios and its portrait of the historical specters of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and the International Exhibition of 1929. The link between democracy and the free market in Spain, the consolidation of the new stage of capitalism, and the redefinition of space in postmodernity are analysed. This chapter suggests that Mendoza's novel uncovers the spectralisation of the present.
Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814720202
- eISBN:
- 9781479878253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814720202.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book explores the Jewish world in 1929 and the reaction of Jewish communities, organizations, and individuals to the dramatic events of that year. It considers the transnational connections that ...
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This book explores the Jewish world in 1929 and the reaction of Jewish communities, organizations, and individuals to the dramatic events of that year. It considers the transnational connections that linked Jews to one another regardless of where they lived and how the developments of 1929, especially the stock market crash, affected the Jews in terms of their relationships with each other and the bonds they forged with non-Jews. It also examines the impact of the particularities of the United States on the relationships between its Jews and those elsewhere, notably in terms of the ways in which American Jews connected to those in the Soviet Union. The book shows that Jews behaved politically in a global context in the post-World War I world, even as they functioned as American Jews, Russian/Soviet Jews, German Jews, Palestinian Jews, or Polish Jews.Less
This book explores the Jewish world in 1929 and the reaction of Jewish communities, organizations, and individuals to the dramatic events of that year. It considers the transnational connections that linked Jews to one another regardless of where they lived and how the developments of 1929, especially the stock market crash, affected the Jews in terms of their relationships with each other and the bonds they forged with non-Jews. It also examines the impact of the particularities of the United States on the relationships between its Jews and those elsewhere, notably in terms of the ways in which American Jews connected to those in the Soviet Union. The book shows that Jews behaved politically in a global context in the post-World War I world, even as they functioned as American Jews, Russian/Soviet Jews, German Jews, Palestinian Jews, or Polish Jews.
