The role of education in Jewish continuity: a response to Jonathan Sacks

Contrasting explanations of Jewish survival form the backdrop to this article. For Jonathan Sacks (1994 Sacks, J. 1994. Will We Have Jewish Grandchildren?, Ilford: Vallentine Mitchell.  [Google Scholar]) the crucial factor has been the role played by Jewish education; indeed, he claims that the demographic threat currently facing Anglo‐Jewry is largely the result of the community having neglected the Jewish education of its children over the past 200 years. He advocates reinstating this communal responsibility as the sovereign Jewish value in order to deal with the threat. In my view, the influence that Sacks attributes to education and particularly to Jewish schools is overstated. It stems from a misreading of modern Anglo‐Jewish history and from a failure to take fully into account the ways in which Jewish schools impact on their pupils’ ethnic and religious identity. These considerations apart, I contend that prioritising education will not necessarily strengthen the commitment to Jewish continuity that is the sine qua non of survival.     

关于非游荡点集的等价描述

非游荡点集为拓扑动力系统中所涉及到的一类重要点集。在《动力系统基础》的基础上对非游荡点作进一步描述,获得几个有用的结果。     

National nostalgia: A group-based emotion that benefits the in-group but hampers intergroup relations

Social psychological research on nostalgia has mainly considered this emotion at the individual level rather than the group level. The current paper proposes that group-based nostalgia for the nation (i.e., national nostalgia) is likely to be related to a positive in-group orientation and a negative out-group orientation, because it fosters an exclusionary and essentialist sense of national identity that is based on ancestry and common descent (i.e., ethnic national identity). This prediction was tested in three survey studies. Study 1 was conducted among a broad sample of the native Dutch population, and demonstrated that national (and not personal) nostalgia is positively related to national in-group identification and out-group prejudice. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 among a nationally representative sample of the native Dutch population, and provided support for the mediation by ethnic national identity. Study 3 replicated the findings of Study 2 and additionally demonstrated that national nostalgia positively predicts tendencies to protect national in-group identity, via a stronger sense of ethnic national identity. These findings demonstrate the potential of group-based nostalgia to have positive and negative consequences for group dynamics at the same time.     

印欧语言起源研究之旧石器连续范式

印欧语言起源研究的旧石器连续范式发端于20世纪90年代,但尚未被国际主流学术界广泛接纳,其发展历程、理论假设、历史重构及理论目标尚不为国内学界了解。它摒弃了传统理论中的“突变论”“欧洲中心主义”和“种族主义”,修正了传统理论对达尔文进化论的误解,继承并发展了“乌拉尔连续理论”,提出了关于语言变化、词汇历史分期方法、语言边界与考古边界的关系等方面的新观点,值得借鉴和推广。     

关于实数连续性的几个问题(二)

文献 [1]对实数的连续性作了深入的讨论 ,给出了Ⅰ推证Ⅱ∽Ⅶ ;Ⅱ推证Ⅰ ,Ⅲ∽Ⅶ以及Ⅲ推证Ⅰ ,Ⅱ ,Ⅳ∽Ⅶ的几个等价刻划 ,文章继续讨论类似的问题 ,并对定理的适用范畴作了归纳总结。     

连环画的画面特点浅析

连环画的画面特点包括四方面的内容:画面具有连续性的特点,画面与画面之间是连续的、不可分割的;画面具有故事性的特点,画面内容以表达故事为目的;画面内容充实、构图完整,具有完整性的特点;连环画画面采用写实性的表现手法,在内容与形式上无论是纯幻想的空间还是现实生活场景都呈现出写实性的特点。     

浅议后冷战时代的现象、变化和困境

文章就冷战结束后的国际形势和各种力量的变化对冷战的结束和后冷战时代开始的各种力量作了背景分析 ;对后冷战时代的变化特征与冷战的相互关系及各种支配力量的变化作了具体分析 ;对后冷战时代的现实变化和未来趋势做了相应的把握     

FUZZY测度的奇异性与绝对连续性

首先讨TFUZZY测度的奇异性。然后讨论了FUZZY测度的奇异性与绝对连续性的关系，并得：出了一些有趣结论。     

关于实数连续性定理的一点注记

对描述实数连续性的三个定理成立的条件作了讨论,举例说明它们在有理数集与无理数集不成立.     

西方后现代哲学的反辩证法问题

在西方后现代哲学中,反辩证法问题是一个极为突出的方面。西方后现代哲学的思想先驱尼采、阿多尔诺以及主要代表人物德勒兹、德里达、福科、利奥塔、博德里拉都以不同的形式表现了反辩证法的思想。可以说,后现代主义的思想百般花样,之所以始终未能成为一个统一的学派,其主要根源就在于它们绝大多数都是同反辩证法的立场紧密相联的;而西方后现代哲学的这种激进反辩证法倾向的大量出现,与辩证法科学在历史实践中的错误理解与应用导致严重历史悲剧或震荡有直接关系;不可否认,西方后现代哲学的反辩证法的多种思想中也包含着不少有助于进一步发展辩证法科学的要素或材料。