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Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray Nov 2025

Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study investigates the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu (G 22). The study focuses on two objectives: the first objective is to describe the plant folk taxonomy in Chasu and the second objective is to determine the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu. Data were collected from rural villages in Same and Mwanga districts by using free listing, field interviews (jungle-walk-and-identify), and written texts containing Chasu plant names. The findings reveal that Chasu folk taxonomy reflects different ethnobotanical categories; including a unique beginner which is mmea/mimea ‘plant(s)’, and three life …


Eleven Are The Stars Of Joseph’S Dream; His Coat, Many Colors, Alexander B. Bloom Dec 2024

Eleven Are The Stars Of Joseph’S Dream; His Coat, Many Colors, Alexander B. Bloom

Capstones

At the Conservative synagogue where I attended Saturday school for part of my childhood in the 90s I recall the teachers’ reimagination of the popular Michael Jackson song “We Are the World,” taught to the seven and eight year-olds who were made to sing it in chorus at some holiday celebration that year.

“We are the Jews,” we bleated out, in concert, “We are the Chosen.”

From my place among them I remember the unsettled feeling I had, to consider my non-Jewish friends at school, teachers and babysitters who knew not of tefillin, my maternal grandparents in the pews of …


The Creation Of An African American Jewish Culinary Tradition: Michael Twitty And The Passover Seder As A Vehicle For Remembering Trauma And Celebrating Survival, Samira Mehta May 2024

The Creation Of An African American Jewish Culinary Tradition: Michael Twitty And The Passover Seder As A Vehicle For Remembering Trauma And Celebrating Survival, Samira Mehta

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The Exodus of the Israelites has long held meaning for African American Christians, as noted by scholars of African American religious history. Jewish studies scholars, meanwhile, have written about both Passover and Jewish relationships to the Exodus. Michael Twitty, public historian, James Beard award-winning author, and memoirist, has fused an identity for himself by drawing on the foodways of both traditions to remember and memorialize the trauma of both traditions While Twitty uses food to create meaning in the context of holidays, his memoirs, Kosher Soul and The Cooking Gene, explore how the food of trauma, poverty, and resilience provide …


To The Dark Boundary: Holocaust Poetry As Testimony And Message, Gabriel Shapiro May 2024

To The Dark Boundary: Holocaust Poetry As Testimony And Message, Gabriel Shapiro

Graduate Liberal Studies Theses and Dissertations

In the years after the Holocaust, there was concern that to write poetry after Auschwitz was, in the word of the philosopher Theodor Adorno, “barbaric,” that the lyrical aspects of poetry were not appropriate for the horror witnessed in the death camps. Despite Adorno’s warning, Holocaust poetry flourished out of the needs of poets to recount and honor a past that was passing out of survivors’ personal reflections into the twenty-first century. Holocaust poetry liberates the poet’s testimony as a message an empathetic reader can carry to fight dehumanization. This thesis discusses many of these poems in light of the …


Memoirs By Abraham Miller, Abraham Miller Jan 2024

Memoirs By Abraham Miller, Abraham Miller

Memoirs by Abraham Miller

This item is a copy of the typescript unpublished memoir of Abraham Miller (1888-1965) from Janova in present day Lithuania. Miller immigrated to the United States, arriving in Alabama in 1909. Abe and his wife Minnie ran a small dry goods store in Mobile until 1945. His memoir describes his family in Russia, the journey to America, getting started in business, and a family trip he took with Minnie later in life.


Babel, Daniel Horowitz Jun 2023

Babel, Daniel Horowitz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis is a series of three memoiristic essays around the vortex of identity. The first is an exploration of how childhood overmedication split the continuity of the author’s self-conception. The second traces the slipperiness of Jewish and Queer identifications detailing their synthesis in the klezmer revival in New York City in late 1980s and early 90s. The third is a polyphonic narration of the recovery of a lost klezmer’s life story in the face of the silence of time and slaughter.


May 2021, Temple Shalom May 2021

May 2021, Temple Shalom

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Contents: Temple Shalom Encounters a 20th Century Yiddish American Phenomenon; From the Rabbi; From the President; Book Group; Community Notices


April 2021, Temple Shalom Apr 2021

April 2021, Temple Shalom

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Contents: Temple Shalom Celebrates Passover; From the Rabbi;From the President; Book Group; Community Notices


March 2021, Temple Shalom Mar 2021

March 2021, Temple Shalom

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Contents: Temple Shalom Celebrates our Cherished Seniors; From the Rabbi; From the President; Book Group; Community Notices


February 2021, Temple Shalom Feb 2021

February 2021, Temple Shalom

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Contents: Temple Shalom Travels to Europe; From the Rabbi; From the President; Book Group; Community Notices


January 2021, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jan 2021

January 2021, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Temple Shalom had a Great Fall; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Community Notices


December 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Dec 2020

December 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Mega-Chanukah Party; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Community Notices


November 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Nov 2020

November 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Temple Shalom Celebrates; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group;Community Notices


October 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Oct 2020

October 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Simchat Torah (and Sukkot), From the Rabbi, President's Message, Book Group, Commmunity Notices


September 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Sep 2020

September 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Erev Rosh Hashanah Sacred Music Concert and Service; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Community Notices


August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Aug 2020

August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Stan Tetenman,Community Notices


June, July 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jul 2020

June, July 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Temple Shalom Strong; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; A Boy and His Blintzes; Community Notices


March 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Mar 2020

March 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Purim Perogies; Announcements; Book Group; Jewish Film Festival; Community Notices


February 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Feb 2020

February 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: tu B'Shavat; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


January 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jan 2020

January 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat Together; From the Rabbi; President's Message; MLK Day; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


October 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Oct 2019

October 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Simchat Torah; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


September 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Sep 2019

September 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat in the Woods; From the Rabbi; Preident's Message; Book Group; Announcements; Community Notices


August 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Aug 2019

August 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Kiddish Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


July 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jul 2019

July 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Maine-ly Jewish Storytelling Festival; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


June 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jun 2019

June 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shavout with Rabbi Erica Asch; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


May 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center May 2019

May 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Lag B'omer; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Commmunity Notices


April 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Apr 2019

April 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Café shalom; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcents; Book Group; Community Notices


March 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Mar 2019

March 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Purim Perogies; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


February 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Feb 2019

February 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Shabbat Together; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices


January 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center Jan 2019

January 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

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Contents: Tu B'Shavat; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; MLK Day; Announcements; Dr.Elcha Buckman Happiness and Humor; Community Notices