The reinvention of the Promised Land: utopian space and time in Soviet Jewish exodus literature

The Jewish underground movement in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1960s produced literature that became a part of the counterculture of Soviet dissent. For the first time in decades, Russian Jews identified, to a significant degree, as people of the galut (Jewish Diaspora). The battle for the return to Israel and the new Jewish renaissance in the intellectual sphere of the unofficial led to the emergence of new topographical concepts, which were inspired primarily by the Jewish cultural tradition. In fact, the exodus texts written in the 1960s–1980s represented a new, late Soviet shaping of Zionist prose. They relate to the symbol of the Promised Land as a fundamental projection of aspirations. Late Soviet Zionist texts share the traditional Jewish vision of Israel as an imagined topos of the original homeland that is both retrospective (with reference to the biblical promise of the land and the seizure of Canaan) and prospective (return and redemption). The Exodus story contained in Sefer Shemot becomes a leading poetic, philosophical and at times religiously charged metaphor of liberation and reunification. The re-strengthened collective memory of tradition required biblical symbols to be imbued with new semiotic power.

This paper will show that the historical dimension of the events dealt with in the literature often has strong mystical and mythological traits and displays messianic-apocalyptic hopes of salvation. However, alternative literary space and time models represented in the aliyah literature hereby betray their rootedness in the teleology of the communist regime. The powerful Israel utopia reflects both the eschatological time of the Soviet empire and its phantasms of paradise on earth. Late Soviet Zionism and totalitarian discourse are shown to be two space-time utopias.     

Small-Sample Improved Seasonal Unit Root Tests for Trending and Breaking Series

In this article three unit root tests that allow for a break in both the seasonal mean and linear trend of the data are proposed. The tests, which can be seen as small-sample corrected versions of already known asymptotic tests, are shown to perform very well in simulations, and much better than their asymptotic counterparts.     

Mean Time to Failure of Weighted k-out-of-n: G Systems

The purpose of this article is to develop a Monte-Carlo simulation algorithm for computing mean time to failure (MTTF) of weighted-k-out-of-n:G and linear consecutive-weighted-k-out-of-n:G systems. Our algorithm is based on the use of appropriately defined stochastic process which represents the total weight of the system at time t. These stochastic processes are explicitly defined and used along with the ordered component lifetimes to simulate MTTF of the systems with weighted components.     

现代时间与新诗

现代时间及其所引致的现代价值观念的融入是新诗现代性认识的重要纬度,它是新诗从思潮到语言表述发展演变的内在根本动力,并在很大程度上,是新诗在面对域外诗歌和传统汉语诗歌的厚重传统压力下获得自我认知的重要尺度。但同时,以“新”为价值取向的现代价值观念也给新诗带来了空前的窘境,限制了新诗从审美规范到语言表达的积累。     

赤壁战役时间考论

赤壁之战“十月”之说 ,既与史料记载赤壁之战爆发前的“盛寒”季节不合 ,又与曹操战前在江陵逗留许久等情况矛盾 ,难以成立 ;“十一月”之说 ,部分受《三国志通俗演义》之影响 ,且不明该年有闰十二月 ,以致折中于《三国志》记载与孙盛的疑问之间。孙盛《异同评》之误解 ,乃因不明纪传体史书中纪、传的不同功能及叙事方法所致。赤壁战役发生时间 ,陈寿《三国志》、袁宏《后汉纪》记载的“十二月” ,准确可信。由此为赤壁之战研究中有关分歧的解决奠定了基础。     

对节约型社会的政治经济学解读

当代中国节约型社会理念的提出,缘起于支撑经济增长的资源匮乏与环境退化。如果只从这一角度理解节约问题和构建节约型社会,那么,不仅在理论上是片面的,在实践上也会对节约型社会的建立形成限制。节约在社会再生产过程中具有生产、消费与人的全面发展效应。节约型社会的实质是人、社会经济关系与自然三个层次发展目标的高度和谐与统一,它部分体现了革命导师马克思、恩格斯对未来社会的伟大构想。     

二维XY模型动力学平均相距〈D（t〉与时间t关系的计算和分析

考察了二维XY模型的两种组态按Metropolis动力学随时间的演化，教育处得到了其在平方点阵上的动力学平均相距＜D（t）＞随时间t的变化关系，该＜D（t）＞－t图作了分析。     

文本解读中的效果历史意识

效果历史意识是哲学解释学的核心概念之一。它是理解和解释得以展开的基础,驱动解释学循环的动力。效果历史意识涵盖文本阅读效果史、生活经验、传统以及读者与文本的对话关系。因此它既是相对固定的整体,又是不断运动、调整、开放的结构,同时蕴含着对解读的历史先在给定性的反思,这是读者必须恪守的“效果历史原则”。效果历史意识的本质是对存在时间的经验,只有真正实现了的时间才能被经验到,从而即便过去,也能收藏在效果历史意识中,在文本解读时重返当下与文本对话,参与文本意义建构。读者的效果历史意识通过与文本的平等交流才能得以自我检视,一部经典只有不断地与读者的效果历史意识对话,才能常新长生。     

流动的文化和文化的流动——唐代以来傈僳族的迁徙及其文化变迁研究

历史上,长期的迁徙生活使傈僳族的生存环境一直处于变动之中,从甘青高原沿"藏彝走廊"到川、藏、滇交界地带,又从金沙江河谷迁移到澜沧江,进而到怒江流域,直至东南亚一带。人是文化的载体,人的流动即是文化的流动。由于频繁的战争和游耕经济生活所导致的迁徙使傈僳族的生产、生活方式不断发生变化,其民族文化就一直在流动中断层、积累、沉淀和延续,又在流动中包容、吸纳了其他民族的文化,由此使自身文化发生嬗变。本文主要以历史人类学的研究理论与方法,探讨傈僳族的迁徙历史对其民族传统文化产生的影响,即这种高山深谷间的长期迁徙,使傈僳族的传统文化成为不断流动着的文化,由此所引起的文化的封闭而又多元又成为傈僳族传统文化的基本特质。