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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND -- 1 Setting the Scene -- Jewish immigration into Britain -- The American incoming -- On being an immigrant -- Ashkenazim and Sephardim -- Demography: facts and fears -- II: WOMEN AND JUDAISM -- 2 Women's Role in Judaism -- 'Blessed art thou … Who hast not made me a woman' -- Woman's rightful realm -- Images and stereotypes -- 3 Religious Law -- Women's status -- Prayer -- Religious study -- Divorce -- Agunah, the 'anchored woman' -- Can the law change? -- 4 The Religious Scene -- America -- Britain -- Ritual -- The secular Jew -- What does it mean to me, being a Jewish woman? -- 5 Aspects of Orthodoxy -- The ultra-Orthodox -- The Chassidim -- The ba'alot t'shuva: women who 'return' to strict Orthodoxy -- III: FAMILY LIFE -- 6 The Jewish Woman at Home -- The Jewish family in history -- The daughter's apprenticeship -- Myths -- Food -- Handing on tradition -- 7 Marriage, Childbearing and Sexuality -- The meaning of marriage -- Choosing a partner and the wedding ceremony -- The marital relationship and the Laws of Family Purity -- 'Be fruitful and multiply' -- Sexual morality -- Staying single -- Lesbianism -- 8 Areas of Difficulty -- Intermarriage -- Conversion -- Family breakdown and domestic violence -- Single parent families -- Women as carers -- IV: AREAS OF CHANGE -- 9 Changing Perspectives -- Secular education -- Voluntary work -- Jobs and careers -- 10 Feminism -- Within the family -- Within religion -- Woman's legal status in relation to divorce and agunah -- Feminism and Zionism -- Ambivalence and change -- Bibliography -- Index.

An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes and effects of eviction in political economy, state power, and cultural difference, emerging work emphasises the subjective experience and sustaining practices of eviction as it happens. This paper makes the case for this turn away from causes and outcomes of 'eviction', and towards 'evicting' as a set of material technologies and practices that sustain displacement, and explores the implications of such a shift. Research into lived durations of eviction, evicting technologies, and eviction enforcement agencies opens up new conceptual and political fields of intervention.

This article analyses the function and symbolic currency of Poland&rsquo ; s recent literary and artistic motif of the returning Jew, which brings the nation&rsquo ; s Jewish Holocaust victims back to their homes as ghosts, spectres and reanimated corpses. It explores the ability of this trope&mdash ; the defining feature of what I call &lsquo ; Polish Holocaust horror&rsquo ; &mdash ; to cultivate the memory of complicitous and collaborative Polish behaviour during the Holocaust years, and to promote renewed Polish-Jewish relations based upon a working-through of this difficult history. In the article I explore Władysław Pasikowski&rsquo ; s 2012 film Aftermath as a self-reflexive product of this experimental genre, which has been considered ethically ambiguous for its necropolitical treatment of Jews and politically controversial for its depiction of Poles as perpetrators. My analysis examines haunting as central to these popular cultural constructions of Holocaust memory&mdash ; a device that has been used within the genre to mourn but also expel guilt for the previously forgotten or supressed dispossession and murder of Jews by some of their Polish neighbours.

"An Influencer's World pulls back the curtain and reveals what's behind social media influencing - an exploding and often misunderstood industry. It's an unconventional look at both the business side of influencing and the personal lives of influencers and creators. What's the influencer lifestyle and how do they win their fight for relevance? How do influencers create an authentic brand that catches fire, while still leading an authentic, healthy life? Influencing is a business built around likes and hate creating a big psychological toll for those who choose to play in the game. The purpose of An Influencers World is to get an insider's look at influencing and how the game is played by showcasing a diverse set of voices from within the industry, including interviews with dozens of trending influencers, CEOs and other leading industry insiders, brands, mental health professionals and celebrities. It's a complete picture that explores the business, history, culture, and psychology of influencing like no other book before it"--

Intro -- Title Page -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Latiya Bay Megatsunami -- 3 - Death Hailstorms -- 4 - Huascaran Avalanche -- 5 - Bengal Famine -- 6 - Spanish Flu Pandemic -- 7 - Minamata Mercury Poisoning -- 8 - USS Indianapolis -- 9 - Hurricane Katrina -- 10 - The Killing Fields -- 11 - Irish Potato Famine -- 12 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb -- 13 - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb -- 14 - Chernobyl -- 15 - Bhopal Gas Tragedy -- 16 - Hindenburg Disaster -- 17 - Peshtigo Wildfire -- 18 - Russian Heat Wave 2010 -- 19 - Lake Nyos Limnic Eruption -- 20 - Legalisation of Tobacco -- 21 - Malaria -- 22 - Dona Paz Ferry Disaster -- 23 - Tenerife Airplane Collision -- 24 - Cholera -- 25 - Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill -- 26 - The Black Death -- 27 - Empress Sinking -- 28 - Measles -- 29 - The Chungqing & -- Italian Hall Mass Panic -- 30 - Smallpox -- 31 - Typhoon Tip -- 32 - Russian Nuclear Submarine K-219 -- 33 - Subprime Mortgage Crisis -- 34 - Kiangya Passenger Steamship Explosion -- 35 - Kyshtym Russian Nuclear Disaster -- 36 - Queen of the Sea Rail Disaster -- 37 - Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack -- 38 - Krakatoa -- 39 - Titanic -- 40 - Plurs, Switzerland Avalanche 1618 -- 41 - Agent Orange -- 42 - European Witch Hunts -- 43 - Shaanxi Earthquake -- 44 - 2004 Tsunami and Earthquake -- 45 - Bhola Cyclone -- 46 - Black Saturday Bush Fires -- 47 - The Love Canal -- 48 - Sampoong Department Store Collapse -- 49 - The Storm of the Century 1993 -- 50 - Twin Towers Collapse - 911 -- 51 - Hepatitis C -- 52 - Stock Market Crash 1929 -- 53 - Banqiao Dam Burst -- 54 - Pompeii 79 AD. -- 55 - China Floods 1931 -- 56 - Tunguska Event -- 57 - Cancer -- 58 - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill -- 59 - Vredeford Dome African Asteroid Strike -- 60 - European Heat Wave 2003 -- 61 - AIDS -- 62 - Halabja Chemical Weapons Attack -- 63 - Valvidia Earthquake -- 64 - Deforestation.

Olivia Baker and Baker Rogers on drag performance and gender identity.