Stakeholder identities in Britain's neoliberal ethical community: Polish narratives of earned citizenship in the context of the UK's EU referendum

This article examines the narrative strategies through which Polish migrants in the UK challenge the formal rights of political membership and attempt to redefine the boundaries of ‘citizenship’ along notions of deservedness. The analysed qualitative data originate from an online survey conducted in the months before the 2016 EU referendum, and the narratives emerge from the open‐text answers to two survey questions concerning attitudes towards the referendum and the exclusion of resident EU nationals from the electoral process. The analysis identifies and describes three narrative strategies in reaction to the public discourses surrounding the EU referendum – namely discursive complicity, intergroup hostility and defensive assertiveness – which attempt to redefine the conditions of membership in Britain's ‘ethical community’ in respect to welfare practices. Examining these processes simultaneously ‘from below’ and ‘from outside’ the national political community, the paper argues, can reveal more of the transformation taking place in conceptions of citizenship at the sociological level, and the article aims to identify the contours of a ‘neoliberal communitarian citizenship’ as internalized by mobile EU citizens.     

Intonation,identity and contact‐induced change among Polish‐speaking migrants in the U.K.

This article examines intonational variation in a language contact situation. The study contributes to sociolinguistic research on the social meaning of intonational variation (Podesva 2006 ; Levon 2014 ). Intonation is studied in a multilingual context of global mobility: within a group of Polish‐speaking migrants in Britain who, thanks to cheap transportation and new channels of communication, could make use of linguistic resources unlimited by territorial boundaries from the beginning of their transnational experience. The study shows that speakers with seemingly similar linguistic and cultural profiles make use of intonation patterns in different ways in the context of the narrative of the self: speakers oriented towards the global economy and the English‐speaking world incorporate a mainly English intonational pattern, the fall‐rise, with increased frequency to do interactional work that it does in English, while other groups maintain Standard Polish norms. As shown, intonational variation participates in the creation of fluid identities that blur linguistic and sociocultural boundaries.     

Intercultural encounters as a ‘Mind Body’ experience: a case study in Jerusalem

This study presents new techniques for teaching diversity, when dealing with the challenges of multicultural society. We present a course model, which incorporates methods that have been developed by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), and continue to disclose and analyse some of the reactions and evaluations we received from the participating students. Findings revealed that the CMBM techniques contributed considerably to the intercultural atmosphere. CMBM contributed in creating added value, in improving self-efficacy and in advancing similarity perceptions in intercultural communication. Moreover, CMBM developed greater trust and emotional support among group members, thus may contribute to reach the educational goals. This study advances composite theoretical accounts into a set of conclusions for bridging intercultural encounters challenges through mind–body techniques.     

纳粹屠犹研究在中国

从历史的角度审视中国学术界自20世纪80年代起开展的关于纳粹屠犹问题的研究,考察了中国学术界对纳粹屠犹事件的认识,分析了纳粹屠犹教育在中国的开展及其意义.     

中国古代社会对开封犹太人的认识和态度

在现存史料的基础上,分析了不同历史时期中国社会对开封犹太人的认识与态度。宋朝时期,犹太人以朝贡的方式与宋政府建立了友好关系,宋政府同意其"留遗汴梁",从而开创了两个民族友好交往的新篇章;元朝时期,犹太人属于色目人,具有较高的社会地位,但其某些习俗和生活方式与主流社会发生了冲突,元政府在尊重其社会地位的前提下,对犹太人及其他一些少数民族的习俗进行了干预和调整;明清时期是开封犹太人的变革时期,开封犹太人采用"适应性"策略融入主流社会,并得到主流社会的充分认可,他们逐渐被中国的主流文化所同化。     

开封犹太社团史研究文献举要

西方学者对开封犹太社团史研究开始较早 ,也有系统 ,并对有关史料进行过归纳 ,先后出版过这方面的文献目录。到目前为止尚无中国学者对已有的涉及开封犹太社团的史料 ,特别是第一手文献资料进行系统梳理 ,致使不少对此问题感兴趣的学者 ,或因对此课题的研究现状不甚了了 ,或因对有关文献情况不明而感到无从下手。开封犹太社团史的主要研究文献包括五个方面 :一是有关的遗留文献 ,如石碑及碑文、经书、牒谱、楹联、匾额、信件 ;二是其他中文史料 ,如正史之记载、地方志、个人著作 ;三是有关来访者的记录 ;四是《圣经》、《塔木德》目录及草图 ;五是中外学者的研究书籍     

马拉默德小说中犹太幽默探析

论述了荚国现代作家伯纳德·马拉默德在作品中所展现出的独特的犹太幽默及其所描摹的近代犹大人的生活境况及心路历程。分析了其作品中犹大幽默的特征及其对人物形象的塑追、故事情节的安排、人物情感的渲染等所体现出的幽默,并揭示了犹太幽默对于主题的烘托所起的作用。对作者移用依地语和象征、比喻手法,使传统犹大幽默独具魅力的写作特色进行了疏理。     

犹太教及其在中国的传播与哈尔滨的犹太教和犹太教堂

在近代,哈尔滨曾是东亚犹太人最大的宗教中心。犹太人在哈尔滨所进行的政治、宗教、经济和文化活动,对哈尔滨的经济繁荣、城市建设曾起过一定作用。目前在哈尔滨仍保存着东亚犹太人最大的犹太教堂。保护和利用这一文化遗存,深入研究哈尔滨犹太人和散居于世界各地的哈尔滨犹太人及其后裔的生活状况,有利于加强中国与以色利、中国与世界各国犹太人的文化交流与经贸合作。     

The Role of Foreign Banks in Poland

The paper examines the process of the Polish banking sector's internationalisation, with a particular intention of describing incentives and the impact of foreign banks entry. In order to carry out an assessment of changes in the banking market structure and banks' performance, the study introduces arguments and motivations of foreign capital inflow into local financial systems with implications for the stability and the development of the banking sector. The role of foreign capital in the Polish economy derives from an analysis of the effects of foreign banks penetration, in terms of changes in competitiveness, efficiency, and stability of the banking sector. An assessment of concentration level and development prospects have also been included.     

The Politics of Recognition: Jewish Refugees in Relief Policies and Human Rights Debates, 1945–1950

This essay analyses the place of Jewish survivors in the refugee system established by the West in the aftermath of the Second World War. Departing from the literature of trauma and mourning, this article addresses Holocaust survivors as migrant refugees subjected to international categorisations, relief policies and human rights debates. Between 1945 and 1950, Jewish refugees were recognised as an ideal-type community of victims by western humanitarianism. Recognition entailed symbolic and material entitlements, and eventually rewarded Holocaust survivors with historical, political and territorial vindication. As opposed to other refugee groups who entered the market of international compassion in the 1940s, Jewish refugees were granted full status of political victims.