Taking a chiefly quantitative approach to Jewish women's litigation at the Exchequer of Jews between in period 1219–81, this article represents first exploration women before law medieval England. It contends that, far from enjoying level ‘legal sexual equality’ not available Christian women, Anglo-Jewish fact shared many their experiences (secular) and justice with counterparts. This contentio...

Abstract The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies early legal systematizations which shaped Christian, Jewish Islamic collections in twelfth century. It argues that possibilities to achieve Divine knowledge have reached out all normative forms of human existence including law. focuses specifically on a Christian context where imagining...

112 * I wish to thank the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany, and Slavic Research Center at the University of Hokkaido, Japan, for financial support for the research and writing of this essay. For astute criticism and useful suggestions on its earlier draft, I am grateful to two anonymous readers of Acta Slavica Iaponica. The final version of the essay also benefited from discussions of my presenta...

INTRODUCTION In Israel, 58.9% of Jewish and Arab Israeli women aged 25 to 64 years are overweight or obese (body mass index >or=25 kg/m(2)). The objective of this analysis is to describe body weight dissatisfaction differences between Jewish and Arab Israeli women with normal or overweight-obese body mass index. METHODS This analysis included 1,393 Jewish and Arab women who participated in th...

This article deals with a typology of 45 techniques of humor that I found when doing research on the mechanisms that generate humor in texts, lists the techniques and applies them to a Jewish joke. It references the work of Vladimir Propp on folktales as analogous in that both are concerned with mechanisms in text that generate meaning. It also deals with four theories about why people find tex...

In this article, I explore two neglected works by the twentieth-century Jewish German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, Avicenna and Aristotelian Left Natural Law Human Dignity. Drawing on previous analyses of leftist Aristotelians natural law, blend Bloch’s texts’ concepts pregnant matter maternal law into “pregnant materialist law.” More precisely, articulates a concept as dynamic, impersonal ...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies have highlighted the potential of analyses of genomic sharing to produce insight into the demographic processes affecting human populations. We study runs of homozygosity (ROH) in 18 Jewish populations, examining these groups in relation to 123 non-Jewish populations sampled worldwide. METHODS By sorting ROH into 3 length classes (short, intermediate, and long), we e...