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Embracing Exile
Authors: 9780197623558  , Kraemer David 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Embracing Exile is a comprehensive history of Jewish responses to and conceptions of their exiles/diasporas. Jews have, since their beginnings, been a wandering people. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan to Egypt and then back to Canaan. From there, they were exiled to Babylon, where they built their longest-lived home, one that survived until the twentieth century. Over the span of centuries, they resettled in Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States, often flourishing. Thanks to these experiences, Diaspora became “natural” to Jews, and though they may have hoped for a return to their Promised Land at the End of Days, they made sense of their many homes, defending Diaspora as the realm where Jewish life could grow and Jews fulfill their covenantal obligations in the company of their God. The texts and expressions the volume documents in Defending Diaspora include biblical and rabbinic texts, philosophical treatises, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and a multiplicity of modern expressions. The book offers revised readings of the book of Esther and other biblical texts, a survey of Talmudic treatments of exile, an in-depth analysis of the thought of the Maharal of Prague, analyses of works by Philip Roth, and other modern authors, and much more. The book shows that lament has not been the most common Jewish response to diaspora and that Zionism is not the natural outcome of either Jewish ideology or history.
Biblical Narratives of Diaspora
Authors: Kraemer David 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter explores the beginnings of Judaism’s alternative approaches to exile, found in biblical texts themselves. These alternatives emerge from the fact that, for many Jews exiled to Babylon, “exile” was not a temporary affair. Becoming Babylonian Jews, they had to make sense of Jewish life away from the Jewish homeland. The chapter examines biblical texts, most reflecting the Babylonian experience, that support and defend diaspora. Texts include the prophet Jeremiah, who counselled Jewish exiles to settle comfortably in Babylon, and the prophet Ezekiel, who, in Babylon, experienced detailed, explicit visions of God in exile. They also include the Bible’s full narratives of Jewish life in diaspora, from the story of Joseph to the books of Esther and Daniel, all of which see diaspora as a place of Jewish triumph.
Editor’s Introduction
Authors: Garrett Don 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
The editor’s introduction outlines and explains Mary Shepherd’s life and writings, focusing especially on those collected in this volume: An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, the two essays published in 1828, and her letters. It details the events that led her to write (including the so-called Leslie Affair of 1805 in Edinburgh and her correspondence with John Fearn). It also provides essential background information about the three figures whose philosophical views the Essay chiefly criticizes: David Hume, Thomas Brown, and William Lawrence. It features substantive chapter-by-chapter analyses of the aims, arguments, and conclusions of that work. Finally, it provides information about Shepherd’s correspondents: Charles Babbage, William Whewell, and Robert Blakey.
Chapter the Fifth.
Authors: Garrett Don 
Published: February 2025

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The fifth chapter of ERCE criticizes William Lawrence’s materialism in his Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, which he supports by appeal to the Humean account of causation found in the work of Thomas Brown. It focuses especially of Lawrence’s treatment of the “necessary connexion” between “irritability” and “living muscular fibres” and between “sensibility” and “living nervous fibres.” The chapter argues that Lawrence fails to recognize the need for separate qualities of life and mind because he fails to distinguish between two possible relations that can be meant by the term ‘necessary connexion’, one of them merely verbal and the other metaphysical and causal. Shepherd traces Lawrence’s alleged errors to his acceptance of the central features of Thomas Brown’s treatment of causation. Foremost among these is Brown’s definition of ‘cause’ as a relation essentially involving temporal antecedence and consequence between distinct objects.
Photography, Digital Media, and Technology
Authors: Fawns Tim 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Broad claims about the relationship between memory and photography, media, and the Internet are often based on thin evidence, derived mainly from a small set of controlled studies. Underlying conceptions and metaphors of memory shape understandings of this relationship within research. In particular, metaphors of storage and retrieval are insufficient for understanding diverse forms of interaction with photography and media because they do not account for specific practices and contexts. Focusing on remembering rather than on memory allows for different metaphors in which diverse media interactions are important components of cognitive activity. However, it is in combining metaphors and disciplines that a richer and more comprehensive picture can be generated of how memory works in messy, dynamic contexts. Such an expansive view of memory psychology is needed to appreciate the complexity and diversity of how mind and technology are entangled in remembering practices.
Is It Possible for Justice to Be Blind When Social Media Is Everywhere?
Authors: Kleider-Offutt Heather M. , Stevens Beth B. 
Published: February 2025

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The impact of social media on the legal system is reviewed across different junctures of the legal process, specifically focusing on memory contamination. The factors and situations surrounding social media’s influence on eyewitness memory, trial outcomes in criminal cases, novice investigator “web sleuths,” and police investigations suggest that although Internet searching has advantages, these searches have taken some control of the investigative process away from law enforcement professionals. Immediate access to social media by anyone with a cell phone, which results in a suspect search, may serve to contaminate witness memory in criminal cases, which undermines best practice procedures employed by law enforcement to guard against memory error and misidentifications. Face recognition software is a potential solution to some of the memory contamination issues that plague human memory but is not infallible. The advantages and disadvantages of technology-based suspect searching and related ethical issues for legal system policy are discussed.
The Iteration Principle
Authors: Fisher Greg 
Published: February 2025

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Entrepreneurial progress entails iterating a solution in response to stakeholder feedback. An entrepreneurial journey is most centrally about learning—learning what customers want and need and learning how to deliver the solution most efficiently and effectively. Learning is useless unless a founder makes changes in response to what is learned. Therefore, a willingness to iterate is important. These changes stem from insights in the data that a founder gets from key stakeholders when experimenting. Iteration may entail making changes to products (including zooming in, zooming out, and technology shifts), customers (including changes to customer segments, needs, and channels), or business model elements (including changes to price points, value capture mechanisms, and cost structures). These different types of iterations are not mutually exclusive. It is highly likely that one type of iteration may be coupled with another type of iteration.
The Control Principle
Authors: Fisher Greg 
Published: February 2025

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Entrepreneurial progress entails maximizing the use of the resources that are under your control. To make meaningful progress, an entrepreneur should shift away from focusing on what they think they need to launch their venture to instead focus much more intently on what they have under their control. This includes focusing on (1) who they are, (2) what they know, (3) what they own, and (4) whom they know in figuring out how to move forward when creating and exploiting an entrepreneurial opportunity. Doing so allows an entrepreneur to build off what is immediately under their control to be able to act quickly and definitively. This could mean shifting one’s immediate aspiration to something that is smaller, more accessible, and more doable, but doing so allows an entrepreneur to create momentum. A smaller aspiration is also often the steppingstone needed to achieve the bigger, more elaborate goal.
The Integration Principle
Authors: Fisher Greg 
Published: February 2025

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Entrepreneurial progress entails integrating different elements of an idea into a business model. A business is a complex system with many components. Those components need to work with one another for a business to succeed. Therefore, a business needs to be understood and managed as a whole, with many different, integrated components. One way of breaking down the different components of a new venture is to conceptualize the venture’s business model and ensure that not only do the components of that business model fit together, but also they reinforce one another. A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, and it can be conceptualized with nine different building blocks covering the firm’s value proposition, customer segments, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, and costs.
Introduction
Authors: Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne 
Published: February 2025

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The mission of this book is to promote team building and facilitate rehearsal practices that bond rather than divide an ensemble. These processes liberate ensembles to create deeper, more collaborative performances. As a result, ensembles achieve a higher level of performance. The introduction answers questions about the purpose of this book, who this book is for, and background of the authors. The authors’ vision for a chamber music world is inclusive, with the aim to empower human connection. Three main roles of chamber musicians are presented, key concepts are defined, and the introduction concludes with an overview of the book.
Working Well Together
Authors: Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter addresses tension and conflict within groups, including strategies for working well together and creating a healthy environment for rehearsals and performances. These foundational skills, combined with the rehearsal techniques and strategies, heighten the excellence of ensemble performance. Foundational strategies for building collaborative teams include appreciation, inquiry, invitation, listening, energy, and collaborative dialogue. Sources of conflict include blaming, taking things personally, lack of focus, misunderstandings, assumptions, strongly held views, and not following through. The chapter concludes with strategies for working well together, such as “try every idea as if it were your own,” the rule of agreement from comedy theater improv, humor, respecting personalities, emotional intelligence, and “bring your best self” to rehearsals.
Rehearsal Playbook
Authors: Fullard Annie , Cotter-Lockard Dorianne 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter offers suggestions for planning and implementing a constructive and effective rehearsal. The authors place a musical spin on the sports playbook approach, which is a step-by-step plan enabling the ensemble’s organization strategy and establishing team culture. The chapter offers long-range and daily rehearsal planning guidance and organizing accountabilities. Roles are described in detail, with strategies to ensure that responsibility for the ensemble’s progress is shared. The chapter concludes with tips for healthy dialogue and communication during rehearsal. Successful rehearsal communication strategies from artists such as Earl Carlyss (former member, Juilliard Quartet) and Hyeung Sol Yoon (former member, Chiara Quartet) are included.
Nows, Thens, and Truths
Authors: Impett Jonathan 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter argues that education in early music must consider the present as much as the past. Rapid cultural development means that Haynes’s 2007 encouragement to maintain the initial radical ethos of early music practice is now both more urgent and more complex. Gustav Leonhardt prioritized not “authenticity” but “truth.” The recent work of Alain Badiou is used to show how this might be understood in the context of early music practice. Truths relate to a context; in the absence of eighteenth-century audiences, current practice must address the dynamic cultural context and multiple networks of musicians and listeners, as well as the ubiquitous availability of vast amounts of music and changing modes of access, both social and technological. To fail to do so will relegate the vital body of Western art music to the status of imitative icon or prestige product. Modes of artistic research are considered as a central component of such a new approach to early music education.
“Nutrition in an Age of Diet Soft Drinks”
Authors: Fidom Hans 
Published: February 2025

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Audio gear compromises the quality of the sounds it is meant to reproduce. In itself that may be acceptable, but its side effect is not, as it leads to relativizing the importance of sound quality in live musicking as well; yet major concert venues replace their pipe organs with organs that use loudspeakers as sound generators instead of pipes. The Orgelpark in Amsterdam counters this development with the Utopa Baroque Organ, inaugurated in 2018. Its 2,500 pipes are voiced as historically informed as possible; moreover, its radically new digital interface affords combining and blowing them in ways never possible before. Meanwhile, comparable “hyperorgans” are being built all over the world. The resulting New Organ Movement inspires musicians from all kinds of provenances to update their skills and, in turn, to demand uncompromised sound quality.
Racial Fetishism and the Alienation of Time
Authors: Paris William M. 
Published: February 2025

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Following on the conclusion of the previous chapter, this chapter elaborates on the distinction between racial fetishism and racism through the work of Frantz Fanon. The argument in this chapter is twofold. First, racial fetishism describes how racial injustice in the capitalist form of life not only tends to reproduce negative stereotypes of the racialized (racism), but these ideas appear to have power over practical agency because the economic relations of capitalist societies really do deprive agents of control over their conduct. Second, the loss of control over one’s conduct prevents agents from embracing novelty rather than repeating social practices inherited from the past. Utopia is the attempt to break with the inherited relations of the past and allow agents to freely develop their own justifications and reasons for how they organize their time.
Statecraft in a World of Disorder
Authors: Ross Dennis 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter examines today's most pressing challenges to the US-led rules-based international order. The author describes the forces that led to that order's preeminence at the end of the Cold War and the subsequent developments which have led to its gradual weakening. Both domestic polarization and external challenges from revisionist powers have heightened the constraints placed on the US to continue its role as global leader. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, and Iranian progress toward a nuclear weapon demonstrate the resolve with which other states seek to undermine the system that has guided international relations into the twenty-first century. By examining these challenges and their implications for the future of the dominance of American values on the world stage, this chapter describes why the United States no longer has the luxury to conduct statecraft poorly.
Bosnia: Finally Getting it Right
Authors: Ross Dennis 
Published: February 2025

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The Bush 41st administration and the Clinton administration dealt with Bosnia. Bush saw Bosnia as the wrong war at the wrong time. His objective for the war was “avoidance.” But avoidance proved unworkable, especially as the Serbs created concentration camps for Muslim men and boys. Bush supported a UN Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions and deployed European peacekeepers—but they protected neither “safe areas” nor themselves. Bill Clinton established an objective of stopping Serb aggression but without being prepared to apply the necessary means. Fear of tearing apart NATO and being drawn into a quagmire meant that the United States had ambitious objectives but was prepared to apply only limited means. The policy would remain stuck until the summer of 1995; from then until the Dayton Conference, Richard Holbrooke would orchestrate all America’s means, including the use of force to back diplomacy, to bring an end to the war.
Syria: A Debacle in Every Sense
Authors: Ross Dennis 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter examines the shortcomings of the Obama administration's statecraft to address the Syrian Civil War sparked by the Arab Spring in 2011. In light of the Assad regime's escalation of lethal violence against Syrian civilians, President Obama called for an end to the violence and urged the regime engage in dialogue; his exhortations culminated in an August 2011 declaration that Assad had lost his legitimacy and had to leave. Obama's unwillingness to do more than impose sanctions was the beginning of a larger pattern to the administration's Syria approach, the objective of which became avoiding American military commitment. In August 2012, he established a red line on the use of Syrian chemical weapons; when Assad ran roughshod over that line in 2013, Obama approved covert assistance to the opposition but in a halting, indecisive manner. At every potential decision-point, Obama chose not to act, convinced that Syria would become for the United States a new Iraq. This chapter underscores that while the Obama administration had means at its disposal to effectively weaken Assad's grip on power, it chose not to use them, with devastating consequences for the Syrian people and American regional interests.
Conclusion: Statecraft and New National Security Challenges
Authors: Ross Dennis 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter explains that statecraft is often done poorly, with ill-defined or inappropriate objectives, because the right questions are not asked. Remarkably, hard questions about the essence of an objective are rarely posed; instead, objectives are often adopted out of habit or drift. While truly effective statecraft goes beyond the formulaic, the author describes a checklist of fundamental questions, the debate of which forms the foundation of sound statecraft. Asking hard questions about the meaning of an objective and the means that the United States or others have to achieve it often seems a lost art. Similarly, recognizing the relationship between stakes and feasibility can also do much to define the right objectives. The higher the stakes, the more ambitious the objective (and means) because the cost of failing is too high. The lower the stakes, the more feasibility is likely to determine the objective. The chapter features discussions of how statecraft must be leveraged to counter the transnational threats of climate change, pandemics, and cyber warfare, where traditional national security officials may not even understand the right questions to ask. In all three cases, public–private partnerships will be essential.
Introduction
Authors: Jumet Kira D. , Mekouar Merouan 
Published: February 2025

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This chapter discusses the evolution of the idea for the edited volume and the existing literature on fieldwork in repressive and/or illiberal states. It identifies and explains the need for a book that focuses on the challenges faced by scholars native to these types of states when conducting research in their home countries, and it defines terms such as “native scholar,” “repressive country,” and “illiberal country.” The authors explain academic neocolonialism and neo-imperialism, as well as the impact of colonial histories and neo-imperialism on the countries and contributors represented in the book. Finally, the summaries and organization of chapters are presented in the following four categories: (1) gender and associated societal expectations; (2) race, ethnicity, and belonging; (3) legal threats and red lines; and (4) exploitation.
Doing Research on the Margins
Authors: Shah Syed , Yousaf Farooq 
Published: February 2025

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In Pakistan, where the military establishment tacitly controls the national narrative on major issues, investigating rights violations on the country’s peripheries, particularly in the areas where Pashtun and Baloch ethnic groups are based, is often difficult and risky. For native researchers, researching Pashtuns in the border regions often involves the risk of retribution from state security agencies, having to overcome a strict sociocultural barrier preventing access to female respondents, and navigating expectations by interviewees that researchers will “stay true” to the political struggle of the Pashtuns. This chapter addresses the challenges faced by native researchers conducting fieldwork in the Pashtun border regions of Pakistan. The chapter also discusses strategies the authors used to mitigate these difficulties. One of the limitations of this chapter is that its findings and conclusions cannot be generalized to female native researchers, who face even more challenging sociocultural and political barriers than their male counterparts.
Lacan in Vietnam
Authors: Nguyen Cuong 
Published: February 2025

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The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), known for its intolerance toward freedom of expression and political dissent, has employed draconian laws and coercive surveillance measures to silence and punish civil society activists and regime critics for many decades. In this chapter, the author addresses Vietnamese scholars’ disposition toward self-censorship, perpetuated by the “will I get into trouble if I write about this” conundrum. He also engages in a critical reflection on his own experiences walking the thin line between the fear of regime threats to his family and professional career and the desire to pursue academic freedom. Furthermore, the author explains how the necessary practice of self-censorship by native scholars undermines the value of their work on Vietnamese history, politics, and society in the eyes of the international academic community. He also elaborates on how a Lacanian psychoanalysis helped him manage anxiety in the field.
Walking a Fine Line
Authors: Nazarova Dilafruz , Nozimova Shahnoza 
Published: February 2025

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In this chapter, the authors outline the convoluted legal instruments that the ruling regime in Tajikistan has developed to intimidate native researchers, especially if their research is politically sensitive. They observe that the institutional legacy of the highly centralized system of higher education inherited from the Soviet Union, coupled with the nature of the current regime, negatively impacts the state of field research in, and about, Tajikistan. Scholarly research is challenged by various legal and institutional barriers ranging from the highly bureaucratized process for earning academic credentials to direct threats to academic freedom through institutional penalties and individual criminal prosecution. Such policies and practices of intimidation and control force native scholars to exercise self-censorship and to choose their research agendas carefully. The authors offer insights from their personal experiences, along with anecdotes from other native academics, on how they navigated these risks in the course of their fieldwork.