@phdthesis{Rupp2018,
  author    = {Rupp, Michael},
  title     = {„Probably the Finest Organisation of its Kind"},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42985},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-429851},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {334},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Die Entstehung der modernen britischen Nachrichtendienstarchitektur fiel in die erste H{\"a}lfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Zeitgleich erfuhr die britische Gesellschaft eine nie dagewesene Demokratisierung. Die Arbeit versucht darzulegen, wie auch vermeintlich arkane Bereiche staatlichen Handelns in {\"o}ffentliche Aushandlungsprozesse eingebettet sind und rekonstruiert deshalb erstmals systematisch {\"o}ffentliche und fach{\"o}ffentliche Diskurse {\"u}ber Nachrichtendienste Großbritanniens im Zeitalter der Weltkriege.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Rabacher2022,
  author    = {Rabacher, Gerald},
  title     = {„Man ist nie irgendwie fertig" {\"U}ber Teilnahme- und Lernbegr{\"u}ndungen von Primarstufenlehrer*innen in bewegungsorientierten Weiterbildungsprozessen},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-54622},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-546223},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {V, 225},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {P{\"a}dagog*innen der Primarstufe nehmen an spezifischen bewegungsorientierten Weiterbildungen teil. Zahlreiche Untersuchungen im Kontext von Fort- und Weiterbildungen stellen dar, unter welchen Bedingungen sich Teilnahmen f{\"o}rderlich oder hinderlich auswirken. In didaktisch-konzeptionellen {\"U}berlegungen werden h{\"a}ufig Fragen diskutiert, wie {\"a}ußere Umst{\"a}nde, etwa in Bezug auf zeitliche, r{\"a}umliche oder inhaltliche Dimensionen, zu gestalten sind, damit Bildungsangebote im Schulsystem bestimmte Wirkungen erzielen. Unter welchen Bedingungen erfolgt sozusagen g{\"u}nstiger Weise eine Vermittlung von spezifischen Inhalten an Lehrer*innen, damit {\"u}ber diese ein Transfereffekt von (system-)relevantem Wissen in das Schulsystem erfolgen kann? In dieser Forschungsarbeit soll nicht ein Bedingungsdiskurs im Vordergrund stehen, auf dessen Grundlage wirkungsvolle Vermittlungsstrategien f{\"u}r Bildungsangebote diskutiert werden. Im Zentrum steht die Frage nach je eigenen Teilnahme- und Lernbegr{\"u}ndungen von P{\"a}dagog*innen, und wie sie sich zu ihrer Weiterbildung ins Verh{\"a}ltnis setzen. Dieser Zugang ver{\"a}ndert die Perspektive auf die Thematik und erlaubt die Auseinandersetzung mit Subjekten im Rahmen eines Begr{\"u}ndungsdiskurses. Im Zuge einer empirisch-qualitativen Studie werden narrative Interviews mit elf Absolvent*innen einer bewegungsorientierten Weiterbildung gef{\"u}hrt, die Auswertung der Daten erfolgt mit der Dokumentarischen Methode. Die Rekonstruktionsergebnisse werden in Form von zwei Fallbeschreibungen und durch vier typische, in der Studie entwickelte, Begr{\"u}ndungsfiguren dargestellt: die Figur Lernen, die Figur Wissensmanagement, die Figur Neugierige Suche und die Figur K{\"o}rperliche Aktivit{\"a}t. Neben der Rekonstruktion von Teilnahme- und Lernbegr{\"u}ndungsmustern wird deutlich, dass Teilnehmen und Lernen keine unterschiedlichen Zugangslogiken in Bezug auf Bedeutungs-Begr{\"u}ndungs-Zusammenh{\"a}nge verfolgen. Vielmehr sind sowohl expansive als auch defensive Lernbegr{\"u}ndungen im Zuge von Teilnahmebegr{\"u}ndungen identifizierbar.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Schaefer2012,
  author    = {Schaefer, Christin},
  title     = {„Gest{\"a}rkt f{\"u}r den Lehrerberuf"},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63487},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In einer quasiexperimentellen L{\"a}ngsschnittstudie mit 380 Lehramtsstudierenden wurde das Interventionsprogramm „Gest{\"a}rkt f{\"u}r den Lehrerberuf", welches Elemente eines Self-Assessments der berufsrelevanten Kompetenzen mit konkreten Beratungsm{\"o}glichkeiten und einem Zieleffektivit{\"a}tstraining (Dargel, 2006) zur Entwicklung individueller berufsbezogener Kompetenzen verbindet, auf seine Wirksamkeit (Reflexionskompetenz, Lehrerselbstwirksamkeit, berufsbezogene Kompetenzen, Beanspruchungserleben, Widerstandsf{\"a}higkeit) und den Wirkungsprozess (Zielbindung, Zielrealisierbarkeit, Zieleffektivit{\"a}t) hin {\"u}berpr{\"u}ft. In dem Pr{\"a}-Post-Follow-up-Test-Vergleichsgruppen-Design wurden eine Interventionsgruppe, deren Treatment auf dem St{\"a}rkenansatz basiert (1), eine defizitorientierte Interventionsgruppe (2), sowie eine kombinierte Interventionsgruppe, bei der der St{\"a}rkenansatz durch den Defizitansatz erg{\"a}nzt wird (3), einer unbehandelten Kontrollgruppe sowie einer alternativ behandelten Kontrollgruppe, die ausschließlich in ihren sozial-kommunikativer Kompetenzen geschult wurde, gegen{\"u}bergestellt. Es gelang zum Post- und Follow-up-Test, sowohl die individuellen beruflichen Kompetenzen als auch die Reflexionskompetenz von Teilnehmern der Interventionsgruppen im Vergleich zur unbehandelten Kontrollgruppe zu f{\"o}rdern. Die Teilnehmer der kombinierten Intervention profitierten im Vergleich zu den Teilnehmern der anderen beiden Interventionsgruppen st{\"a}rker im Bereich Lehrerselbstwirksamkeit, Widerstandsf{\"a}higkeit und Zieleffektivit{\"a}t. Gegen{\"u}ber der alternativen Kontrollgruppe zeigten sie ebenfalls einen st{\"a}rkeren Zuwachs in der Entwicklung ihrer berufsrelevanten Kompetenzen und in ihrer Widerstandsf{\"a}higkeit. Die Studie liefert erste Hinweise darauf, dass ein Ansatz, welcher St{\"a}rkenfokussierung und Defizitorientierung integriert, besonders effektiv wirkt.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Brandt2019,
  author    = {Brandt, Christopher Georg},
  title     = {"… when the legend becomes fact …"},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-429-6},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41044},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-410441},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {377},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Der historische Spielfilm z{\"a}hlt zu den popul{\"a}rsten Formen geschichtskultureller Artikulation. Als solche ist er Gegenstand kontroverser Diskussionen {\"u}ber einen angemessenen didaktischen Umgang. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, ein integratives, theoretisch und empirisch abgesichertes Analysemodell zu entwickeln, das nach den Tiefenstrukturen historischen Erz{\"a}hlens im Medium des Spielfilms fragt und dabei unterschiedliche Erscheinungsformen historischer Spielfilme ber{\"u}cksichtigt. Die {\"U}berlegungen bewegen sich deshalb in einem interdisziplin{\"a}ren Spannungsfeld von Theorien zum historischen Erz{\"a}hlen und Konzepten der Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft. Die Diskussion und Synthese dieser unterschiedlichen Konzepte geht dabei - auf der Grundlage einer großen Materialbasis - vom Gegenstand aus und ist induktiv angelegt. Als Orientierung f{\"u}r die praktische Arbeit werden am Ende der einzelnen Kapitel Toolkits entwickelt, die zu einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Spielfilmen anregen sollen.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Schallau2024,
  author    = {Schallau, Juliane},
  title     = {"Maybe Happen Is Never Once" - temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62885},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iv, 171},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner's portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner's arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner's work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Raju2021,
  author    = {Raju, Rajarshi Roy},
  title     = {'Smart' Janus emulsions},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Emulsions constitute one of the most prominent and continuously evolving research areas in Colloid Chemistry, which involves the preparation of mixtures or dispersions of immiscible components in a continuous medium. Besides conventional oil-in-water or water-in-oil emulsions, other emulsions of complex droplet morphologies have recently attracted significant research interests. Especially Janus emulsions, in which each droplet is comprised of two distinct sub-regions, have shown versatile potential applications. One of their advantages is the possibility of compartmentalization, which enables to play with two different chemistries in a single droplet. Though microfluidic methods are conventionally used to prepare Janus emulsions, their industrial applications are largely hindered by low throughput and extensive instrumentations. Recently, it has been discovered that simply one-pot moderate/high energy emulsification is also capable of developing Janus morphology, although their preparation and stabilization remain rather substantially challenging. This cumulative doctoral thesis focuses on the preparation and characterization of 'smart' Janus emulsions, i.e. Janus emulsions with special stimuli-responsive features. One-step moderate/high energy emulsification of olive and silicone oil in an aqueous medium was carried out. Special consideration was devoted to the interfacial tensions among the components to maintain the criteria of forming characteristic droplet architectures, in addition to avoiding multiple emulsion destabilization phenomena like imminent phase separation or even separated droplet formation. A series of investigations were conducted related to the formation of complexes of charged macromolecules and role of them as stabilizers to achieve stable Janus emulsions for a realistic timeframe (more than 3 months). The correlation between the size of the stabilizer particles and the droplet size of emulsion was established. Furthermore, it was observed that Janus emulsion gels with interesting rheological properties can be fabricated in the presence of suitable polyelectrolyte complexes. Janus emulsions that could be influenced by pH, temperature or magnetic field were successfully produced in presence of characteristic stimuli-responsive stabilizers. Afterwards, the effect of these changes was studied by different characterization techniques. The size and morphology could be tuned easily by changing the pH. The incorporation of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (synthesized separately by a co-precipitation method) to one component of the Janus emulsion was carried out so that the movement and orientation of the complex droplets in aqueous media could be controlled by an external magnetic field. Additionally, temperature-triggered instantaneous reversible breakdown of Janus droplets was also accomplished. The responses of the Janus droplets by the stimuli were well-documented and explained. Another goal of the present contribution was to exploit this special morphological feature of emulsions as a template for producing porous materials. This was demonstrated by the preparation of ultralight magnetic responsive aerogels, utilizing Janus emulsion gels. The produced aerogels also showed the capacity to separate toxic dye from water. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of investigation towards batch scale production of Janus emulsion with such special stimuli-responsive properties by a simple bulk emulsification method.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{AltmanDoron2017,
  author    = {Altman Doron, Ilana},
  title     = {שאלת ההזרעה המלאכותית בספרות השו"ת},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103582},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XIII, 443, M},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {This research concentrates on the investigation of the Responsa literature and the examination of attitudes of Jewish religious decisors towards artificial insemination (AI), as well as other reproductive technologies such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy and egg donation. The study attempts to elucidate the formation of Halacha on this question according to the Responsa literature starting from the Rishonim (the early authorities) period (11th till 15th centuries) and up to the Acharonim (the later authorities) period (from the 16th century and onwards), and concentrating primarily on the modern era and last century. The aim of this research is to examine the process of reasoning and decision making of religious authorities, dealing with the penetration of technological and scientific advancements into a closed and conservative society. Our analysis shows how rabbis are facing the conflict between medical and social necessity to access advanced medical treatments and fear of social transitions and religious implications, caused by such technologies. In addition to analysis of the Orthodox Responsa, this study surveys also the opinion of rabbis in Reform and Conservative Judaism.},
  language  = {mul}
}
@phdthesis{Zur2018,
  author    = {Zur, Avichai},
  title     = {פרדוקס 'הידיעה והבחירה' במשנת ר' צדוק הכהן מלובלין},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412201},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {371, xxxiii},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {This research deals with R. Zadok's innovative writings. According to most scholars R. Zadok continues the doctrine of his rabbi R. Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica and introduces existential fatalism: man has the freedom to act against the customary law, according to God's will which is revealed in his heart, even in his passions, which exceed the Halacha; however, man does not determine the will that is revealed in the root of his soul, but only uncovers it. Many expressions, in content and form, of this fatalism can be found in R. Zadok's writings; yet, he also introduces many remarks about human free choice and its creative power to establish and determine man's root and re-establish and influence the Divine worlds and this world. This research focuses on these passages whose centrality has been so far neglected by research. Hence, its renewed understanding of his doctrine. R. Zadok's position can be explained by means of the paradoxical perception, which claims the full strength of the two opposites and even a mutual influence between them, which creates a difficult yet fertile tension: as opposed to the a priori intellectual and formal process of fatalism where Divine Foreknowledge eliminates free choice, R. Zadok introduces fatality which identifies in reality itself the Divine foreknowledge and will that exist in all things. In R. Zadok's fatality, Divine foreknowledge does not eliminate free choice; on the contrary, without Divine foreknowledge, nothing has existence. Therefore, only the existence of Divine foreknowledge within free choice enables its true and indeed free fulfillment. R. Zadok's ontological perception is realized not only in the direct content of his words but also indirectly, in the method of his exegesis and the sense he gives to the concepts he discusses. Therefore the fatality is revealed in other areas in which there is a gap between the absolute dimension ('Yedi'ah') and the contingent dimension ('Bechirah'): the lie, imagination, evil, sin, suffering etc., indeed contingent compared with the absoluteness of truth, good, etc.; however, according to R. Zadok, God wants them as such - that is to say, they have an essential existence and actuality that are not absolute, but rather as such: as contingent, temporary and relative. However, these essential existence and actuality do not confirm them as they are but create a transformation within them. For example, evil does not become absolute good or remains evil but rather turns into 'Very Good' (Tov Me'od) which includes evil and according to Rabbi Zadok is greater than regular good. From this, rises also the opposite influence: that of free choice, or contingent Bechira in general, on Divine Foreknowledge, or absolute Yediah in general. According to R. Zadok, when the contingency and relativity of "Bechirah" received its essential existence and actuality, it has the power so to speak, to add dynamism to the permanent Divine absoluteness of the 'Yedi'ah': the affliction (Nega; נגע) of sin or suffering turns by itself, by interchanging its letters, into pleasure (Oneg; ענג) which is greater than regular delight. Man has the power to influence the upper worlds by decreeing decrees or by canceling Divine decrees; he also has the power to influence the daily novelties of this world, by the novellaes of the Oral Law and the sanctification of the new month which is capable of changing the movement of the zodiac. The human creativity of the novellae of the Oral Law is included in the Divine truth which is hidden in the Written Law and it only reveals and interprets the latter; but on the other hand, according to R. Zadok, the source of the dynamic vital novellaes of the Oral Law is higher than the source of the permanent absoluteness of Written Law and they are those which create and determine the latter. R. Zadok introduces two main concepts for his paradox: On the ontological perception - Yichud Gamur, the Ultimate Unification of God, in which the contingent duality (between God and His creation, and the choice it enables) of the Lower Unification paradoxically exists with the absolute unification and Divine Foreknowledge of the Upper Unification. On the perception of man's existential situation - HaShoresh HaNe'elam, The Hidden Root: unlike Rabbi Mordechai Yosef, his rabbi, rabbi Zadok claims that man determines his destiny by his willful contingent actions - yet, simultaneously, like his rabbi, he also claims that the man's permanent root is determined by God and His Foreknowledge and it is what determines his actions for better or worse. But above these R. Zadok points to an additional Hidden Root which is higher than the permanent one: it is indeed an absolute root (Yediah) yet is determined and established by man's willful actions (Bechira), similar to the Divine creation of 'ex nihilo'.},
  language  = {mul}
}
@phdthesis{Blankovsky2014,
  author    = {Blankovsky, Yuval},
  title     = {עבירה לשמה},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-87158},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {A Transgression for the Sake of God -'Averah li-shmah: A Tale of a Radical Idea in Talmudic Literature All cultures, religions, and ethical or legal systems struggle with the role intention plays in evaluating actions. The Talmud compellingly elaborates on the notion of intention through the radical concept that "A sin committed for the sake of God [averah li-shmah] is greater than a commandment fulfilled not for the sake of God [mi-mizvah she-lo li-shmah]." The Babylonian Talmud attributes this concept—which challenges one of rabbinic Judaism's most fundamental dogmas, the obligation to fulfill the commandments and avoid sin—to R. Nahman b. Isaac (RNBI), a renowned 4th century Amora. Considering the normative character of the rabbinic culture in which Halakhah (Jewish religious law) plays such a central role, this concept, seems almost like a foreign body in the Talmudic corpus. The study focuses on the linguistic stratum of RNBI's statement. By tracking the development of the meanings and uses of the word 'li-shmah' the research locates RNBI's statement as part of the broader Talmudic discourse evaluating two levels of performing religious actions 'li-shmah/she-lo li-shmah'. Since we wish to explain the word 'li-shmah' consistently both times it appears in the statement, the best translation would be 'for the sake of God'. This translation is based on the linguistic connection between the word 'li-shmah' and the term 'le-shem shamayim' (for the sake of God) that appears in several rabbinic sources. This linguistic connection is also the key to identifying the possible root of RNBI's concept. RNBI bolsters his idea by quoting a verse about Jael, thus implying that Jael sinned for the sake of God. The research describes at least five statements in Sages' Literature that attribute sins for the sake of God to other biblical figures, all the while using the term 'le-shem shamim'. Therefore we may presume that RNBI's concept has evolved from the exegetical notion of attributing sin for the sake of God to biblical figures. To understand the way RNBI's statement was accepted in Talmudic culture, we must explore the textual witnesses to the literary frame of RNBI's statement: the Talmudic sugya (Nazir 23a; Horayot 10b). We possess five versions of the sugya's dialectical structure. Comparison of these versions, allows us to reconstruct the earlier dialectical structure, from which the familiar versions developed. The radical potential of RNBI's statement led to cultural activity, in the transmission of the sugya, in an effort to mitigate it. This activity is reflected in late additions to the sugya identified by our research—which should be viewed as a process of self-censorship for ideological reasons. This research explores a fundamental issue in rabbinic world: the immanent contradiction between law and intention. The research depicts in detail the movement of a radical idea from the margins culture to mainstream - in this case into the Babylonian Talmud. Therefore, the findings of this research provide substantial insight into our understanding of the interpretive process and of conceptual adaptation in rabbinic culture.},
  language  = {mul}
}
@phdthesis{Mamo2020,
  author    = {Mamo, Shai},
  title     = {משנתו ההלכתית של הרב משה כלפון הכהן מג'רבה כפי שהיא משתקפת בחיבוריו ההלכתיים ברית כהותה ושות שואל ונשאל},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-46956},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469567},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {200},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {מחקר זה מתמקד במשנתו ההלכתית של הרב כלפון, כפי שהשתקפה בחיבוריו 'שואל ונשאל' ו'ברית כהונה' שהם ספרי שו"ת (responsa) הפורשים היקף נרחב של יחסיו לתמורות שחלו באותן שנים בקהילה היהודית באי ג'רבה שליד תוניס. נבחנים יחסו למודרנה, לחינוך כללי, למעמד האשה ועוד. כמו"כ נבדקה דרכו ההלכתית, הדומיננטיות שהעניק למסורת הג'רבאית גם לעומת פסיקותיו של רבי יוסף קארו.},
  language  = {mul}
}