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Book SynopsisFar more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium has done more in recent years to both produce and intervene in such stories than television. This unapologetically interdisciplinary work presents a series of investigations into some of the most influential and innovative treatments of American mass incarceration to hit our screens in recent decades. Looking beyond celebratory accolades, Lee A. Flamand argues that we cannot understand the eagerness of influential programs such as OZ, The Wire, Orange Is the New Black, 13th, and Queen Sugar to integrate the sensibilities of prison ethnography, urban sociology, identity politics activism, and even Black feminist theory into their narrative structures without understanding how such critical postures relate to the cultural aspirations and commercial goals of a quickly evolving TV industry and the most deeply ingrained continuities of American storytelling practices.Table of ContentsThe Captivating Aspirations of Post-Network Quality Television in the Age of Mass Incarceration: An Introduction Remediating Mass Incarceration The Political Economy of Post-Network Television Our Scheduled Programming 1. Mass (Mediating) Incarceration Captivity by the Numbers Invisible Punishments & Revolving Doors Socialized Precarity & Captive Profits Punitive Realism & Unruly Spectacles Conclusion 2. How Does Violent Spectacle Appear as TV Realism? Sources of OZ’s Penal Imaginary Welcome to OZ What is TV Realism? The Prison as Hyper-Real Institution Looks Like America? Populating the Prison Nation Haunting Repetitions: Plotting the Prison’s Archive Bizarre Realism Conclusion 3. If It’s Not TV, is It Sociology? The Wire A Surprising Debate Procedural Anxieties What is Sociology? Tele-visualizing the Surveillance Society Soft Eyes and the Sociological Imaginary Sociological Ambitions: Reform, Critique, Utopia Reassembling Mass Incarceration The Cultural Contradictions of Sociological Aspirations Conclusion 4. Is Entertainment the New Activism? Orange Is the New Black, Women’s Imprisonment, and the Taste for Prisons We’re Not in OZ Anymore Scripting Prison Practices Foregrounding Backstories through the Penological Carousel Celebrity and the Politics of Trans-Televisibility Articulating Communities of Concern Finding Oneself There: Inmate Receptions Feedback Loops, Recommendation Engines, and the Taste for Prisons Conclusion 5. Can Melodrama Redeem American History? Ava DuVernay’s 13th and Queen Sugar Publicizing Ava DuVernay as Black Feminist Auteur "The Story Never Changes"? History: Assembly Required Homecomings: Melodrama and the State of Innocence The Black Family in American History Black Family Melodrama in the Age of Mass Incarceration The Possibilities and Perils of Popularizing Radical Epistemologies Conclusion Conclusion: American Politics and Prison Reform after TV’s Digital Turn Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisCorinna Lim is the Institute of Policy Studies' 8th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of her three IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in April and May 2021, and includes highlights of her question-and-answer segments with our virtual audience.Ms Lim examines the most pressing concerns facing women in Singapore, contributing her insights to the national gender equality review. She analyses why gender equality in the workplace and home has not advanced more despite Singapore's promising start in the 1960s with the introduction of the Women's Charter and gender-neutral education. She looks at what Singapore should do to accelerate gender equality, and tackles the issues of masculine norms that are harmful, support for family caregiving, and comprehensive sex education in Singapore.The IPS-Nathan Lecture series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. It seeks to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest for Singapore.

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Book SynopsisDigital Inclusiveness has ignited a conversation across the world. It delves into the world of digital economy as a modern form of organization for economic systems.The chapters transcend knowledge about the essence of digital inclusiveness over to the human right facets of the online environment. The book also offers an understanding of digital literacy, technological barriers, cybersecurity and digital entrepreneurship.What is the digital divide? Digital inclusiveness considers a myriad of issues pertaining to this topic. It narrows down to the era of the pandemic, lockdown and homeworking for the study of digital divide. The ways of addressing it are discussed l whilst offering promising solutions to overcome it. It will give you a complete understanding to support digital inclusiveness and empower society to work with digital technologies.With a fair and equitable distribution, the book will open the door to online information management systems. As a manifestation of global digital inclusion, these high-tech markets are seen as the future of international trade.

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Book SynopsisThis book integrates the current research on diversity, equity, and inclusion with corporate practice and describes how these initiatives affect organizations' morale, performance, and output. Academic researchers, corporate executives tasked with implementing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and regulators face the problem of balancing DEI initiatives, which could generate diverse ideas beneficial to the organization, with concerns about diluting meritocracy. Building a diverse workforce could improve both organizational well-being and social harmony. Research has shown that building a diverse workforce often results in communication and coordination issues and unjustified pay and performance gaps, engendering feelings of exclusion among diverse individuals. The book describes how organizations address these issues in various settings ranging from accounting firms to health care providers. It covers settings with gender and racial diversities and clarifies the difference between equality and equity. Its coverage includes dealing with concealable disabilities and promoting equity across diverse populations in organizational and social settings.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a much-needed re-examination of the concepts of social fairness and justice in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Through careful analysis of issues as diverse as the allocation of vaccines through the global system COVAX, women and gender, migrants and refugees, the environment, and social justice, the authors bring novel perspectives on openness, freedom, and well-being. This ambitious collection combines political, economic, historical, philosophical, and cultural analyses to examine whether it is possible to envision a “fair society” after the global COVID-19 pandemic. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Multi-layered and multi-dimensional viewpoints towards a Fair SocietyPart I Global perspectiveChapter 2 Fairness in the Global Allocation System for the COVID-19 Vaccine COVAX: Limits to Affected Parties’ Participation in Decision-MakingChapter 3 Environment and Economy after COVID-19: Focusing on Global Warming IssuesChapter 4 An Investigation Through Philosophy and Case Studies on Regional Integration, Migrants and Refugees, and the COVID-19 CrisisChapter 5 Challenges and Possibilities for Global Economic Cooperation after COVID-19 – Focus on East Asia.- Part II Regional FocusChapter 6 Social Justice and the Response to the COVID-19 Crisis in European CountriesChapter 7 Well-being and Fairness in the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan: Insights from Positive Political PsychologyChapter 8 COVID-19 Policy Response and Citizens’ Well-Being in AustraliaChapter 9 Mexico facing the COVID-19 pandemic: ineffective societal and governmental responses in a country with a high level of socioeconomic inequality and a precarious health systemChapter 10 APEC’s Response to the COVID-19 Crisis and Social JusticePart III Thematic issues.- Chapter 11 COVID-19 and its impact on Women and GenderChapter 12 Modern Japanese Literature and Infectious Diseases: Representations of Infectious Diseases and Social Justice in Literary WorksInterim Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive review of income inequality issues in the OECD in a cross-country setting. It presents a wealth of data and analysis on the formation of inequality and identifies groups of countries that share similar inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes of the income distribution, namely poverty, top incomes as well as the distribution of wealth. An important contribution of the book is the careful examination of the determinants of the income distribution, such as globalisation and technical progress as well as the effect of a wide range of economic policies that shape the distribution of income. These include in particular labour market regulations, household taxes and transfers as well as in-kind public services. It also sheds light on an under-researched issue: do policies aimed at boosting economic growth raise or reduce income inequality?Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mapping Inequality Across the OECD; The Distribution of Labour Income; Income Redistribution via Taxes and Transfers; Poverty; Top Incomes; The Distribution of Wealth; Conclusion: Growth-Enhancing Policies and Inequality.

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Book SynopsisIncome inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforce will continue to place huge pressure on wages all over the world, including Singapore. This edited volume is the product of the robust exchanges that took place in a series of closed-door discussions (CDDs) on inequality that the Institute of Policy Studies organised in the first half of 2012. The essays provide a range of views on the multi-faceted nature of inequality in Singapore, discuss candidly the specific challenges we face, and offer some policy recommendations.Table of ContentsIs Life Getting Better in Singapore? Issues on Social Inequality; Inclusive Growth, Growing Inclusivity, Addressing Labour Market Shortfalls and Enhancing Competitiveness; Education and Social Mobility, Education and Intergenerational Mobility; Retirement Funding Adequacy in Singapore; Impact of Foreign Workers on Economic Growth of Singapore; Health and Long Term Care for the Ageing Population in Singapore; Is Housing still Affordable? New Disaggregated Indicators;

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Book SynopsisSet in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of Crimea’s populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of kindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire.Until now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access to this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-changer, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics and ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.Trade Review“This is a remarkable book, brimming with much information about East European traditional Jewish life in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author, Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, describes his experiences in a most direct, straightforward way, with great attention to detail. The Shochet contains a treasure trove of information for the scholar and will provide hours of reading pleasure for the layman."— Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University“Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn’s lengthy memoir is of great significance as he takes us with him throughout his journeys in East European Orthodox society. Here we meet many fascinating personalities up close. Originally written in Yiddish, we can thank Michoel Rotenfeld for his wonderful translation—a true labor of love— and his learned introduction and notes that allow us to get the most out of this fascinating work."— Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton “This autobiography’s importance is indisputable. It is a rare example of an ego-document written by a ‘simple,’ ordinary Jew, someone who never belonged to the elite circles of the maskilim, but instead lived far from their centers and influences. For historians of the period seeking to draw a fair and balanced portrait of the times, Goldenshteyn’s voice is an important one.”— Professor David Assaf, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University“A rare journey deep into the Hasidic world of nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn, a Lubavitcher Hasid, conveys his daily struggles and fleeting joys in a manner unencumbered by the nostalgia and alienation so typical of secularist Jewish memoirs. The Shochet is meticulously edited, and is essential reading for an understanding of everyday Hasidic Eastern Europe.”— Glenn Dynner, author of The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press)“[T]his is… an extremely fascinating book that details the life of an unassuming Jewish man in late 19th-century Ukraine. The book, brilliantly translated from the original Yiddish by Michoel Rotenfeld... is the story of Rabbi Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn, who was a shochet and wrote his autobiography for his children so they could understand the trials and tribulations he went through. While Goldenshteyn’s intent was for his children, he has also bequeathed a great gift to us all. … Goldenshteyn was an ordinary person, who like his contemporaries, was simply struggling to survive. He never intended to write a historical account, but in his ordinariness, he has left the world with a captivating historical narrative about Jewish life in the Ukraine. … In the annals of Jewish and Eastern European history, The Shochet is a remarkably unique and fascinating work.”— Ben Rothke, The Jewish Press“The Shochet stands as a valuable addition to the corpus of Eastern-European Jewish memoir literature, offering readers an intimate and eye-opening view of the author’s life and the unique situation of Eastern European Jewish communities of this time period. Rotenfeld's translation expertly captures the author’s skillful storytelling, further enriching it with elucidations and notes. This renders the memoir a compelling and insightful exploration of a bygone era that resonates deeply with readers.”— Rabbi Moshe Maimon, SeforimChatter“The Shochet is an innocuously titled travelogue memoir of a righteous, forward moving, determined individual who recorded his difficult life in the later years of the 19th century and the early parts of the 20th century. In this masterpiece of detail, much peril and danger is presented and discussed, including the fright of border crossings, the terror of poverty and oppression, the nastiness of underhanded charlatans, and the inhumane snobbery of class warfare.”— Martin Bodek, Jewish LinkTable of ContentsVolume One AcknowledgementsA Note about the TranslationIntroduction: The Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov (Pinye-Ber) Goldenshteyn—A Traditionalist’s Unique Depiction of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Life in Tsarist RussiaAn Exceptional Autobiographer: Pinye-Ber’s Status, Motives, And ChoicesPinye-Ber in Contrast to Modern Jewish AutobiographersHow Did Pinye-Ber Come to Write an Autobiography?Pinye-Ber’s Alltagsgeschichte: Traditional Jews in Tsarist RussiaCommon Life and Incidental ObservationsWork, Family Life, and Social StruggleThe Rebbe as an Inspirational LightAnti-Fanaticism and Anti-Corruption Religious Self-RealizationPinye-Ber’s Sense of Divine ProvidenceA Divine-Providence-Centered ConsciousnessHasidism and Divine ProvidenceA Life Seen as God’s WillDates in the AutobiographyPinye-Ber’s Language ConclusionBibliographyThe Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea In Lieu of a PrefacePart I: My Family and YouthMy Parents and SiblingsChapter 1: My Parents Chapter 2: The Deaths of My Parents, Brother-in-Law, and Brother, 1854–1857Chapter 3: Tragedy in the Lives of Three of My Sisters, ca. 1857–1864 My Early Years, 1848–1864Chapter 4: My Early Childhood, 1848–1855Chapter 5: A New Set of Parents, 1856Chapter 6: With Grandfather in Groseles, 1857–1858Chapter 7: Shuffled Around, 1858–1860Chapter 8: Sent Off to an “Uncle,” 1860Chapter 9: My Dream of a Celestial Palace, 1860Chapter 10: Working as a House Servant for Shulem Tashliker, 1860–1863Chapter 11: Beyle’s Fiancé, 1863Chapter 12: Gaining Admittance to the Yeshiva in Odessa, 1863Chapter 13: In Odessa, Tiraspol, and Romanovke, 1863–1864Part II: Engagement, Marriage, and Seeking a Livelihood, 1864–1873Chapter 14: My Unexpected Engagement, 1864–1865Chapter 15: Obtaining a Romanian Passport and Traveling to Lubavitch, 1865Chapter 16: The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Studying in Shklov, 1865–1866Chapter 17: Delivering an Esreg to the Lyever Rebbe, 1866–1867Chapter 18: My Wedding and a Fiery Pursuit, 1867–1868Chapter 19: In Search of a Livelihood, 1868–1869Chapter 20: Studying to Be a Shoykhet and Searching for Uncle Idl, 1870–1872Chapter 21: Receiving Certification as a Shoykhet and Returning to Lubavitch, 1872–1873Volume Two Part III: My Forty Years as a Shoykhet, and Moving to Palestine, 1873–1929Chapter 22: As the Shoykhet of Slobodze, 1873–1875Chapter 23: The Nobleman’s Attack and Moving to the Crimea, 1876–1880Chapter 24: Corruption in Bakhchisaray and Ungrateful Relatives, 1880–1889Chapter 25: The Threat of Banishment from Tsarist Russia, 1881–1884Chapter 26: Persecution in Bakhchisaray, 1884–1889Chapter 27: Raising My Children and My Wife’s Death, 1884–1897Chapter 28: Remarrying and My Children’s Departure from Russia, 1896–1910 Chapter 29: Preparing to Leave for Palestine, 1910–1914 Part III—Addendum: My Life in Palestine, 1913–1928Chapter 30: The World War and the Death of My Second Wife, 1913–1916Chapter 31: Marrying Off My Niece and Writing a Torah Scroll, 1916–1917Chapter 32: Exile to Kfar-Saba, 1917–1918Chapter 33: Suffering in Exile and Returning to Petakh-Tikva, 1918Chapter 34: Completing the Torah Scroll, the Arab Attack, and My Children Join Me in Palestine, 1919–1929Appendices:Appendix A: The Author and His Relatives The Author’s Final Years in Petakh-Tikva The Author’s Children Isaac Goldstein, the Author’s Nephew Feyge, the Author’s Second Wife Bashe, the Author’s Third Wife Salomon Bernstein, Relative and Portraitist of the Author The Printing of The Author’s Autobiography Appendix B: Translations of Documents Written by the Author Hebrew Engagement Contract for His Daughter Nekhame (1897) Hebrew Ethical Will (1920) Family Letters Appendix C: Translations of Additional Documents Hebrew Letter from Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Regarding the Author (1879) Episodes Related by the Author about Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Two Certificates in Sh’khita Obtained by the Author’s Son Refúel (1904 and 1906) Appendix D: Genealogical Charts The Author’s Ancestors and Siblings The Extended Family of Ershl Teplitsky, the Author’s Brother-in-Law The Author’s Children and Grandchildren The Extended Hershkovitsh Family, the Family of the Author’s Wife Freyde Appendix F: PhotographsAppendix E: Maps Tiraspol and Its Environs Bakhchisaray, Crimea, and Its Environs BibliographyGlossaries: Introduction to the Glossaries and the Transliteration SchemesGlossary 1: Foreign TermsGlossary 2: Jewish Personal NamesGlossary 3: Geographic Locations in Eastern Europe Index of Names, Places, and Subjects

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Book SynopsisSet in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, both Jewish and non-Jewish. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of Crimea’s populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of kindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire.Until now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access to this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-changer, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics and ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.Trade Review“This is a remarkable book, brimming with much information about East European traditional Jewish life in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its author, Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, describes his experiences in a most direct, straightforward way, with great attention to detail. The Shochet contains a treasure trove of information for the scholar and will provide hours of reading pleasure for the layman."— Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University“Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn’s lengthy memoir is of great significance as he takes us with him throughout his journeys in East European Orthodox society. Here we meet many fascinating personalities up close. Originally written in Yiddish, we can thank Michoel Rotenfeld for his wonderful translation—a true labor of love— and his learned introduction and notes that allow us to get the most out of this fascinating work."— Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Scranton “This autobiography’s importance is indisputable. It is a rare example of an ego-document written by a ‘simple,’ ordinary Jew, someone who never belonged to the elite circles of the maskilim, but instead lived far from their centers and influences. For historians of the period seeking to draw a fair and balanced portrait of the times, Goldenshteyn’s voice is an important one.”— Professor David Assaf, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University“A rare journey deep into the Hasidic world of nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn, a Lubavitcher Hasid, conveys his daily struggles and fleeting joys in a manner unencumbered by the nostalgia and alienation so typical of secularist Jewish memoirs. The Shochet is meticulously edited, and is essential reading for an understanding of everyday Hasidic Eastern Europe.”— Glenn Dynner, author of The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press)“[T]his is… an extremely fascinating book that details the life of an unassuming Jewish man in late 19th-century Ukraine. The book, brilliantly translated from the original Yiddish by Michoel Rotenfeld... is the story of Rabbi Pinkhes Dov Goldenshteyn, who was a shochet and wrote his autobiography for his children so they could understand the trials and tribulations he went through. While Goldenshteyn’s intent was for his children, he has also bequeathed a great gift to us all. … Goldenshteyn was an ordinary person, who like his contemporaries, was simply struggling to survive. He never intended to write a historical account, but in his ordinariness, he has left the world with a captivating historical narrative about Jewish life in the Ukraine. … In the annals of Jewish and Eastern European history, The Shochet is a remarkably unique and fascinating work.”— Ben Rothke, The Jewish Press“The Shochet stands as a valuable addition to the corpus of Eastern-European Jewish memoir literature, offering readers an intimate and eye-opening view of the author’s life and the unique situation of Eastern European Jewish communities of this time period. Rotenfeld's translation expertly captures the author’s skillful storytelling, further enriching it with elucidations and notes. This renders the memoir a compelling and insightful exploration of a bygone era that resonates deeply with readers.”— Rabbi Moshe Maimon, SeforimChatterTable of ContentsVolume One AcknowledgementsA Note about the TranslationIntroduction: The Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov (Pinye-Ber) Goldenshteyn—A Traditionalist’s Unique Depiction of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Life in Tsarist RussiaAn Exceptional Autobiographer: Pinye-Ber’s Status, Motives, And ChoicesPinye-Ber in Contrast to Modern Jewish AutobiographersHow Did Pinye-Ber Come to Write an Autobiography?Pinye-Ber’s Alltagsgeschichte: Traditional Jews in Tsarist RussiaCommon Life and Incidental ObservationsWork, Family Life, and Social StruggleThe Rebbe as an Inspirational LightAnti-Fanaticism and Anti-Corruption Religious Self-RealizationPinye-Ber’s Sense of Divine ProvidenceA Divine-Providence-Centered ConsciousnessHasidism and Divine ProvidenceA Life Seen as God’s WillDates in the AutobiographyPinye-Ber’s Language ConclusionBibliographyA Jewish Orphan in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn In Lieu of a PrefacePart I: My Family and YouthMy Parents and SiblingsChapter 1: My Parents Chapter 2: The Deaths of My Parents, Brother-in-Law, and Brother, 1854–1857Chapter 3: Tragedy in the Lives of Three of My Sisters, ca. 1857–1864 My Early Years, 1848–1864Chapter 4: My Early Childhood, 1848–1855Chapter 5: A New Set of Parents, 1856Chapter 6: With Grandfather in Groseles, 1857–1858Chapter 7: Shuffled Around, 1858–1860Chapter 8: Sent Off to an “Uncle,” 1860Chapter 9: My Dream of a Celestial Palace, 1860Chapter 10: Working as a House Servant for Shulem Tashliker, 1860–1863Chapter 11: Beyle’s Fiancé, 1863Chapter 12: Gaining Admittance to the Yeshiva in Odessa, 1863Chapter 13: In Odessa, Tiraspol, and Romanovke, 1863–1864Part II: Engagement, Marriage, and Seeking a Livelihood, 1864–1873Chapter 14: My Unexpected Engagement, 1864–1865Chapter 15: Obtaining a Romanian Passport and Traveling to Lubavitch, 1865Chapter 16: The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Studying in Shklov, 1865–1866Chapter 17: Delivering an Esreg to the Lyever Rebbe, 1866–1867Chapter 18: My Wedding and a Fiery Pursuit, 1867–1868Chapter 19: In Search of a Livelihood, 1868–1869Chapter 20: Studying to Be a Shoykhet and Searching for Uncle Idl, 1870–1872Chapter 21: Receiving Certification as a Shoykhet and Returning to Lubavitch, 1872–1873Volume Two Part III: My Forty Years as a Shoykhet, and Moving to Palestine, 1873–1929Chapter 22: As the Shoykhet of Slobodze, 1873–1875Chapter 23: The Nobleman’s Attack and Moving to the Crimea, 1876–1880Chapter 24: Corruption in Bakhchisaray and Ungrateful Relatives, 1880–1889Chapter 25: The Threat of Banishment from Tsarist Russia, 1881–1884Chapter 26: Persecution in Bakhchisaray, 1884–1889Chapter 27: Raising My Children and My Wife’s Death, 1884–1897Chapter 28: Remarrying and My Children’s Departure from Russia, 1896–1910 Chapter 29: Preparing to Leave for Palestine, 1910–1914 Part III—Addendum: My Life in Palestine, 1913–1928Chapter 30: The World War and the Death of My Second Wife, 1913–1916Chapter 31: Marrying Off My Niece and Writing a Torah Scroll, 1916–1917Chapter 32: Exile to Kfar-Saba, 1917–1918Chapter 33: Suffering in Exile and Returning to Petakh-Tikva, 1918Chapter 34: Completing the Torah Scroll, the Arab Attack, and My Children Join Me in Palestine, 1919–1929Appendices:Appendix A: The Author and His Relatives The Author’s Final Years in Petakh-Tikva The Author’s Children Isaac Goldstein, the Author’s Nephew Feyge, the Author’s Second Wife Bashe, the Author’s Third Wife Salomon Bernstein, Relative and Portraitist of the Author The Printing of The Author’s Autobiography Appendix B: Translations of Documents Written by the Author Hebrew Engagement Contract for His Daughter Nekhame (1897) Hebrew Ethical Will (1920) Family Letters Appendix C: Translations of Additional Documents Hebrew Letter from Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Regarding the Author (1879) Episodes Related by the Author about Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Two Certificates in Sh’khita Obtained by the Author’s Son Refúel (1904 and 1906) Appendix D: Genealogical Charts The Author’s Ancestors and Siblings The Extended Family of Ershl Teplitsky, the Author’s Brother-in-Law The Author’s Children and Grandchildren The Extended Hershkovitsh Family, the Family of the Author’s Wife Freyde Appendix F: PhotographsAppendix E: Maps Tiraspol and Its Environs Bakhchisaray, Crimea, and Its Environs BibliographyGlossaries: Introduction to the Glossaries and the Transliteration SchemesGlossary 1: Foreign TermsGlossary 2: Jewish Personal NamesGlossary 3: Geographic Locations in Eastern Europe Index of Names, Places, and Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe Radical Right examines five cases of political hatred from the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan, Hungary under Orbán, India under Modi, the Philippines under Duterte, and Brazil under Bolsonaro. With probing insights it asks, how did these rightwing figures come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face?The authors use case studies of individual countries to lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of a novel political form. By analyzing each regime's response to the Covid-19 pandemic further light is shed on their methods in a time of crisis. The book closes by considering the Trump presidency, and how we can understand these leaders by comparison to their pronounced counterpart in the Global North—and vice-versa.More than a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, The Radical Right is the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor by an international taskforce assembled to respond to a global phenomenon of far reaching significance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital  Cecilia Lero2 Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Turkey  Sefika Kumral3 Global Crisis and the Realignment of Eastern European Capitalist Class Alliances The Case of Hungarian Illiberalism  Tamás Gerőcs and Ágnes Gagyi4 Modi’s New India Hatred, Dispossession, Desperation  Aparna Sundar5 Can Democracies Die Democratically? Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines  Cecilia Lero6 Understanding the Myth Bolsonaro’s Brazil  Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos7 Comparisons  Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos8 The Pandemic as an Opportunity  Daniel Feldmann, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs and Ilhan Can Ozen9 It Can’t Happen Here Trump Viewed from the Margins  Daniel GearyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara Ehrenreich, who conceived of EHRP, once described as "the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals."One essayist and grocery store worker describes what it is like to be an “essential worker” during the pandemic; another reporter and military veteran details his experience with homelessness and what would have actually helped him at the time. These dozens of fierce and sometimes darkly funny pieces reflect the larger systems that have made writers' bodily experiences, family and home lives, and work far harder than they ought to be.Featuring introductions by luminaries including Michelle Tea, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, Going for Broke is revelatory. It shows us the costs of income inequality to our bodies and our minds—and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONBy Alissa QuartSection 1. THE BODYIntroduction by Camonghne Felix“A Stay At Kings County” by Charlie Gross“I Did My Own Abortion” by Anonymous“Women afraid of dying while /they are trying to find their life” by Alissa Quart & Katha Pollitt“Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body. But It Has Abandoned My Brain” by Katie Prout“Love and War” by Karie Fugett“My Disability Is My Superpower: If Only Employers Could See It That Way.” by Andrea Dobynes and Deborah Jian Lee“A Trip to the Nail Salon with Missing Fingers” By Kim Kelly“Traumatic Pregnancies Are Awful. Dobbs Will Make Them So Much Worse” by Alissa Quart“The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma” by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington“To Help the Homeless, Offer Shelter That Allows Deep Sleep” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“Inequity In Maternal Health Care Left Me With Undiagnosed Postpartum PTSD” by Courtney Lund O’Neil“Anything of Value” by Lorelei Lee2. HomeIntroduction by Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor“Homeless in a Pandemic” by Jennifer Fitzgerald“I Was Given a House for Free But It Already Belonged to Someone Else” by Anne Elizabeth Moore“I Grew Up Without a Fixed Address” by Bobbi Dempsey“Evictionland” by Joseph Williams“37,000 US Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them” by Alex Miller“Why I Choose to Live House-Free in Alaska” by Joe Ford“I Was Wrongly Detained at the Border. It’s Part of a Larger Problem” by David Wallis“I Watched War Erupt in the Balkans. Here’s What I See in America Today” by Elizabeth Rubin“A Fierce Desire to Stay: Looking At West Virginia Through Its People’s Eyes” by Elizabeth Catte, Matt Eich, and Doug Van Gundy3. FamilyIntroduction by Michelle Tea“Heartbreaking Images from a Photographer Grappling with a Complex Past,” photos by Jordan Gale“When My Father Called Me About His Unemployment” by Lisa Ventura“I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?” by Annabelle Gurwitch“My Marriage Was Broken: The Coronavirus Lockdown Saved It” By Robert Fieseler“PS 42” by Celina Su, photo by Annie Ling“My Sister Is a Recovering Heroin Addict” by Elizabeth Kadetsky“In the Pandemic, Cooking Connected Me to My Ancestors” by Elizabeth Gollan“The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care” by Julie Poole“The Worst Part About Being Poor: Watching Your Dog Die” by Bobbi Dempsey“Nomen Est Omen” by Mitchell S. Jackson4. Work Introduction by Kathi Weeks“How the Taxi Workers Won” by Molly Crabapple“My Pandemic Year Behind the Checkout Counter” by Ann Larson“From Academic to Assembly Line Worker” by Gloria Diaz“Once Upon a Time, ‘Waitress’ Was a Union Job. Could History Repeat Itself?” by Haley Hamilton“Why I Check the “Black” Box” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“My Life As a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor” by Joseph Williams“What It’s Like Riding Along with a Valet Driver at a San Francisco Strip Club” photos by Rian Dundon“You Talk Real Good” by Alison Stine“The Secret Lives of Adjunct Professors” by Gila Berryman“The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work” by Alissa Quart and Rodrigo Toscano; photo by David Bacon “Zen and the Art of Uber Driving” by John Koopman5. ClassIntroduction by Astra Taylor“The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor” Words by Erynn Brook, illustrations by Emily Flake“That Sinking Feeling” by Ray Suarez“Off Our Butts” by June Thunderstorm“Never-ending Sentences,” by Philip Metres“The Dignity of the Thrift Store” by Elizabeth Gollan“Class Dismissed” by Alison Stine“For Years, I’ve Tried to Work My Way Back into the Middle Class” by Lori Teresa Yearwood“What Does it Mean to Be ‘Bad with Money?’” by Joshua Hunt

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Book SynopsisA critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of “soft policing.” For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work—a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.

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