TY - JOUR A1 - Mischke, Steffen A1 - Ashkenazi, Shoshana A1 - Almogi-Labin, Ahuva A1 - Goren-Inbar, Naama T1 - Ostracod evidence for the Acheulian environment of the ancient Hula Lake (Levant) during the early-mid Pleistocene transition JF - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology : an international journal for the geo-sciences N2 - Ostracod shells from the archaeological site Gesher BenotYa'aqov (GBY) in the upper Jordan River Valley (Israel) were investigated to improve the understanding of the environmental conditions of the Acheulian occupation site during the early-mid Pleistocene transition (0.78 Ma). The diverse ostracod assemblage consists of 28 species. The distribution of most of the recorded species in the region today shows that the hydrological conditions at the early-mid Pleistocene transition were not fundamentally different from the modern ones. However, the predominance of Candona neglecta shells in the GBY sequence probably indicates cooler climatic conditions than today. Shells of Candona angulata in the artefact-richer upper half of the sequence suggest a slight salinity increase in the ancient Hula Lake from pure freshwater to slightly oligohaline conditions. This shift probably resulted from wetter conditions and a more stable lake environment with increased residence time of the lake water and stronger influence of evaporation. Shells of the brackish water ostracod Cyprideis torosa and the slightly halophilic Heterocypris sauna and Plesiocypridopsis newtoni were recorded only rarely suggesting that the lake maintained an outlet through the entire period represented by the GBY sequence. Shells of Gomphocythere ortali in GBY cycles 1 and 2 imply that a permanent freshwater stream existed close to the site. Humphcypris subterranea shells in cycles 3-5 provide further evidence that a tributary entered the lake from the south in contrast to the modern setting with the north-south flowing Jordan River at GBY. Statistical analysis of the quantitative ostracod data from GBY identified a group of samples from layers containing more abundant stone artefacts and another group of samples from layers with scarce artefacts. Samples from layers containing more abundant artefacts have relatively high abundances of C. angulata, Darwinula stevensoni and Physocypria kraepelini shells and include rare shells of Ilyocypris hartmanni, Ilyocypris salebrosa, Heterocypris incongniens and Pseudocandona sp. 2 which do not occur in the other samples. The presence of P. kraepelini and H. incongruens shells in artefact-richer sediments possibly indicates poor bottom water oxygenation in the ancient Hula lake sometimes during the periods of Acheulian occupation. However, more detailed studies are required to assess whether lower dissolved oxygen levels in the lake resulted from a slight lake level rise and possibly higher nutrient flux to the lake during wetter conditions or whether hominins already impacted lake's nutrient status by butchering at its shore or by burning of near-shore vegetation. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Levant KW - Israel KW - Acheulian KW - Lower Palaeolithic KW - Ostracods KW - Palaeoecology Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.036 SN - 0031-0182 SN - 1872-616X VL - 412 SP - 148 EP - 159 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ehrensperger, Kathy T1 - Narratives of Belonging BT - The Role of Paul's Genealogical Reasoning JF - Early Christianity N2 - Die Darstellungen genealogischer Netzwerke waren in der Antike Ausdruck der Weltsicht ihrer Erzähler, mit deren Hilfe Nähe und Distanz zwischen verschiedenen Gruppen und Völkern ausgedrückt und hergestellt werden konnte. Auch Paulus bedient sich genealogischer Argumente, um die Beziehung nicht-jüdischer Christus-Gläubiger zu Israel und ihrem Gott zu verdeutlichen. Es handelt sich um eine ethnozentrische Argumentation, deren Fokus aber gleichzeitig eindeutig theozentrisch ist. KW - genealogies KW - identity KW - Israel KW - seed of Abraham KW - promise Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/186870317X15017545210233 SN - 1868-7032 SN - 1868-8020 VL - 8 SP - 373 EP - 392 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bareither, Nils A1 - Scheffel, Andre A1 - Metz, Johannes T1 - Distribution of polyploid plants in the common annual Brachypodium distachyon (s.l.) in Israel is not linearly correlated with aridity JF - Israel Journal of Plant Sciences N2 - The ecological benefits of polyploidy are intensely debated. Some authors argue that plants with duplicated chromosome sets (polyploids) are more stress- resistant and superior colonizers and may thus outnumber their low ploidy conspecifics in more extreme habitats. Brachypodium distachyon (sensu lato), for example, a common annual grass in Israel and the entire Mediterranean basin, comprises three cytotypes of differing chromosome numbers that were recently proposed as distinct species. It was suggested that increased aridity increases the occurrence of its polyploid cytotype. Here, we tested at two spatial scales whether polyploid plants of B. distachyon s. l. are more frequently found in drier habitats in Israel. We collected a total of 430 specimens (i) along a largescale climatic gradient with 15 thoroughly selected sites (spanning 114- 954 mm annual rainfall), and (ii) from corresponding Northern (more mesic) and Southern (more arid) hill slopes to assess the micro- climatic difference between contrasting exposures. Cytotypes were then determined via flow cytometry. Polyploid plants comprised 90% of all specimens and their proportion ranged between 0% and 100% per site. However, this proportion was not correlated with aridity along the large- scale gradient, nor were polyploids more frequently found on Southern exposures. Our results show for both spatial scales that increasing aridity is not the principal driver for the distribution of polyploids in B. distachyon s. l. in Israel. Notably, though, diploid plants were restricted essentially to four intermediate sites, while polyploids dominated the most arid and the most mesic sites. This, to some degree, clustered pattern suggests that the distribution of cytotypes is not entirely random and calls for future studies to assess further potential drivers. KW - Aridity KW - Brachypodium distachyon KW - Brachypodium hybridum KW - Brachypodium stacei KW - cytotype KW - exposition KW - Israel KW - Mediterranean grass species KW - polyploidization KW - rainfall gradient KW - slope aspect Y1 - 2017 SN - 0792-9978 SN - 2223-8980 VL - 64 SP - 83 EP - 92 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thomas, Linda T1 - Es darf gekocht werden BT - Zu Besuch in den Bibliotheken der Tel Aviv University JF - BuB : Forum Bibliothek und Information ; Fachzeitschrift des BIB, Berufsverband Information Bibliothek e.V. N2 - Eine achtköpfige Delegation der Universität Potsdam (UP) besuchte vom 18. bis 21. November 2018 die Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel. Die Kooperation zwischen beiden Einrichtungen wurde durch einen »staff exchange« intensiviert. So konnten Mitarbeiter*innen der UP ihren Gegenpart an der TAU kennenlernen und sich inhaltlich austauschen. Der vorliegende Bericht basiert auf Gesprächen mit drei der insgesamt fünf Bibliotheksdirektorinnen sowie zwei weiteren Kolleginnen aus dem Bereich Erwerbung und Katalogisierung. Dabei wurden unterschiedliche Themenbereiche aus dem Bibliothekswesen und die Sicht beziehungsweise der Stand dazu an der TAU und der UP angesprochen. Der vorliegende Bericht geht auf die Themenfelder Bibliothekssystem, Open Access und Bibliothek als Raum ein. KW - Internationale Kooperation KW - Israel Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-168567 SN - 1869-1137 VL - 71 IS - 6 SP - 330 EP - 331 PB - Berufsverband Information Bibliothek CY - Reutlingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens T1 - A Secular Tradition BT - Horace Kallen on American Democracy in the United States and Israel JF - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - This article focuses on the social philosopher Horace Kallen and the revisions he made to the concept of cultural pluralism that he first developed in the early 20th century, applying it to postwar America and the young State of Israel. It shows how he opposed the assumption that the United States’ social order was based on a “Judeo-Christian tradition.” By constructing pluralism as a civil religion and carving out space for secular self-understandings in midcentury America, Kallen attempted to preserve the integrity of his earlier political visions, developed during World War I, of pluralist societies in the United States and Palestine within an internationalist global order. While his perspective on the State of Israel was largely shaped by his American experiences, he revised his approach to politically functionalizing religious traditions as he tested his American understanding of a secular, pluralist society against the political theology effective in the State of Israel. The trajectory of Kallen’s thought points to fundamental questions about the compatibility of American and Israeli understandings of religion’s function in society and its relation to political belonging, especially in light of their transnational connection through American Jewish support for the recently established state. KW - modern Jewish history KW - United States KW - Israel KW - 20th century KW - Horace Kallen KW - cultural pluralism KW - intellectual history KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - Israel KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - Horace Kallen KW - kultureller Pluralismus KW - Geistesgeschichte Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532868 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 SP - 85 EP - 100 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krah, Markus T1 - Exporting Jewish Ideas from Germany (via Palestine) to America BT - Salman Schocken and the Transnational Transfer of Texts, 1931–1950 JF - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - When he founded Schocken Books in 1945, department store magnate, philanthropist, and publisher Salman Schocken (1877–1959) called his new American publishing business an imitation of its German predecessor, which had functioned from 1931 until 1938. He intended it to replicate the success of the Berlin Schocken Verlag by spiritually fortifying a Jewish community uncertain in its identity. The new company reflected the transnational transfer of people, ideas, and texts between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the United States. Its success and near-failure raise questions about transnationalism and American Jewish culture: Can a culture be imposed on a population which has its own organs and agencies of cultural production? Had American Jewish culture developed organically to the specific place where several million Jews found themselves and according to uniquely American cultural patterns? The answers suggest that the concepts of transnationalism and cultural transfer complement each other as tools to analyze American Jewry in its American and Jewish contexts. KW - modern Jewish history KW - United States KW - German Jewish history KW - Israel KW - book history KW - publishing KW - Jewish cultural history KW - cultural transfer KW - 20th century KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - deutsch-jüdische Geschichte KW - Israel KW - Buchgeschichte KW - Verlagsgeschichte KW - jüdische Kulturgeschichte KW - Kulturtransfer KW - 20. Jahrhundert Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-533049 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 SP - 101 EP - 115 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -