Jewish Memorial Research Articles

Miejska przestrzeń pamięci (na podstawie wybranych utworów Herkusa Kunčiusa, Ričardasa Gavelisa, Grigorija Kanowicza)

This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.

A study of the relationship between contemporary memorial landscape and user perception

Contemporary Memorial landscape (CML) integrated within the city and people’s life is rapidly growing. It is a landscaped space commemorating individuals or events of the past and keeping them in the memory of people, through physical representation in public areas, by being active rather than passive spaces. Users experience these memorials through engagement with different perceptions, as a result of senses experienced at that space. Placing CML in everyday life and allowing users to engage strengthen their memory and place attachment. This research carries an analysis of CML classification, urban physical configuration, and user sensual experience. The research is carried through literature review and analytical studies for three examples; 9/11, Diana’s, and Jewish memorial. This research highlights the difference between monuments, memorials, and CML. The research concludes a theoretical framework, based on user’s interpretation highlighting their sensual perception, helping the designers bridge their ideas to the user, leading to memorial success.

“The Persnicketiness of Memory”: Jonathan Safran Foer's Audaciously Imaginative Jewish Memorial Book

This article argues that Jonathan Safran Foer's postmodern Holocaust novel Everything Is Illuminated constitutes a fictional Jewish memorial book. Earlier critics have emphasized the magical realist elements of Everything Is Illuminated but have overlooked the influence of the Jewish memorial book, a literary genre both testimonial and folkloric, on Foer's depiction of shtetl life and its destruction during the Holocaust. Jewish memorial books, encyclopedic record books composed by Holocaust survivors, memorialize, with deep nostalgic longing, the lost inhabitants and culture of their annihilated ancestral villages. Foer's inventive adaptation of the genre exemplifies and problematizes the efforts of survivors' descendants to memorialize a culture they never experienced firsthand. Through the novel's superlative and even absurd representations of the shtetl, Foer tests the ability of fiction to function as an imaginative form of testimony. To traverse the spatial and temporal distance between the Holocaust descendant and the buried shtetl life, Foer's fictional Jewish memorial book represents time as fluid and history as provisional: in Everything Is Illuminated the past is as open-ended and unresolved as the future. This provisional sense of history creates spaces where the descendant-writer can gain a limited imaginative access to the past.

Polnische „Gerechte unter den Völkern“ zwischen Moral und Politik

Polish Righteous Among the Nations – between moral and politics Since 1963 the Jewish Memorial Center Yad Vashem has honoured over 23,000 non-Jews with the title Righteous Among the Nations. These righteous civilians supported Jews and risked their lives during the period of National Socialism. Rescues occurring during that immediate time period have been the target of extensive research. Conversely, though, there have been almost no studies which closely examine the Post War period and the honouring of people during the Cold War. While attitudes in Eastern Bloc States were often hostile towards Israel’s post-war politics and even anti- Semitic, it is worth questioning if, and to what extent, e.g. the People’s Republic of Poland had an impact on the Israelis’ awarding their civilians. Notwithstanding, the main focus of this paper lies on the anti-Jewish campaign around 1968 and the subsiding of tensions in the 1970s. On the one hand, research was accomplished on the statistical rise in various years of honours and awards ceremonies. On the other hand, files of Yad Vashem have been analysed as well as articles of two Polish newspapers. In the 1960s it was feared that the Polish Righteous would suffer persecution through becoming well known for their commitment as rescuers of Jews. At the end of the 1960s these civilians could not even receive their honours because they were not issued with visas. Simultaneously, there were Polish press campaigns which, on the one side, celebrated Polish as rescuers of Jewish people, and on the other side portrayed “the Jews” as ungrateful. This double-edged use of highlighting the Polish helpers and at the same time suppressing the Israelis’ awarding is the central theme of this essay.

Argentine space, Jewish memory: memorials to the blown apart and disappeared in Buenos Aires

This paper traces a new memory map for Latin America, a map anchored in contemporary events not in pre-Columbian monuments. This paper will focus on Buenos Aires where a painful twentieth-century history of dictatorship, disappearance, and terrorism has given rise to new sites of memory that defy older traditions tied to exclusion and nationalism. The 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA community center in Buenos Aires, the most important Jewish building in Latin America, is a particularly knotty instance of the controversies surrounding remembering and forgetting on a continent often marked by narrow, authoritarian views of belonging. This paper will analyse the issues involved in memorial building and the performance of remembering at the site of the AMIA as an example of larger questions of who controls communal remembrance and what paradigms can be used to construct contemporary memory. Jewish memorial practices and the Holocaust play an especially important role in Argentina, entering into a dialogue with newly minted forms of Argentine remembering and creating a new language more suited to our times.

Diseases and disorders of the colon. By Anthony Bassler, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G., L.L.D., Consulting Gastroenterologist, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; St. Vincent's Jewish Memorial; Misericordia and Doctors Hospitals, New York City. 9¼ × 6 in. Pp. 217 + xii, with 79 illustrations. 1957. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas. (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.) 51s

Diseases and disorders of the colon. By Anthony Bassler, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G., L.L.D., Consulting Gastroenterologist, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; St. Vincent's Jewish Memorial; Misericordia and Doctors Hospitals, New York City. 9¼ × 6 in. Pp. 217 + xii, with 79 illustrations. 1957. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas. (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.) 51s

Constructing Identity: Anglo-Jewry and Synagogue Architecture

This essay seeks to explore the relationship between Jewish and British identity in the architecture of Anglo-Jewry by reference to a small selection of architecturally important or representative synagogues in this country that are still standing and that have been recorded for the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage. The Survey was set up in 1997 under the auspices of the Jewish Memorial Council with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and the RIBA to record and research the vanishing architectural heritage of the Jewish communities of Britain and Ireland. In the process it aims to promote protection and preservation and public access to historic Jewish buildings and sites nationwide.

POROKERATOSIS PLANTARIS DISCRETA, A PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED DERMATOPATHOLOGICAL ENTITY

International Journal of DermatologyVolume 9, Issue 2 p. 83-90 POROKERATOSIS PLANTARIS DISCRETA, A PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED DERMATOPATHOLOGICAL ENTITY Jacob Taub M.D., F.C.A.P., Corresponding Author Jacob Taub M.D., F.C.A.P. This paper was read before the Scientific Assembly of the ASCP at the Interim Meeting, February 26, 1969, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, New York Medical College, New York, N.Y., and Director of Laboratories, Westchester Square Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.Address for reprints: Dr. Taub, 2503 St. Raymond Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10461.Search for more papers by this authorMarvin D. Steinberg D.P.M., Marvin D. Steinberg D.P.M. This paper was read before the Scientific Assembly of the ASCP at the Interim Meeting, February 26, 1969, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Director, Department of Podiatry, Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, N.Y. and Consulting Podiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, N.Y.Search for more papers by this author Jacob Taub M.D., F.C.A.P., Corresponding Author Jacob Taub M.D., F.C.A.P. This paper was read before the Scientific Assembly of the ASCP at the Interim Meeting, February 26, 1969, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, New York Medical College, New York, N.Y., and Director of Laboratories, Westchester Square Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.Address for reprints: Dr. Taub, 2503 St. Raymond Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10461.Search for more papers by this authorMarvin D. Steinberg D.P.M., Marvin D. Steinberg D.P.M. This paper was read before the Scientific Assembly of the ASCP at the Interim Meeting, February 26, 1969, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Director, Department of Podiatry, Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, N.Y. and Consulting Podiatrist, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, N.Y.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1970 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-4362.1970.tb04584.xCitations: 15 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume9, Issue2April 1970Pages 83-90 RelatedInformation

SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN THE AMNIOTIC FLUID

From the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, and Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York City

Rational dosage in I 131 treatment of hyperthyroidism.

Arational approach to the problem of dosage in treating hyperthyroidism with I131was developed following a review of cases seen in the Radioisotope Clinic of the Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York and in the private practice of the authors over the past seven years. The combined series numbered 294 patients (237 female and 57 male), and in the course of the study, several points of interest emerged. Most striking was the smallness of the dose used in the earliest cases. In 1952 and 1953 the Clinic was feeling its way along, and initial doses of the order of 3 and 4 millicuries were routine. It was felt at the time that a small dose, repeated at suitable intervals, was safer for the patient than a single much larger dose. It soon became evident, however, that the additional doses were often not needed; the initial small dose of a projected series became the total dose; and remissions lasting up to eight years at the time of writing were regularly observed. The administered dose was calculated for each pa...

Radioiodine in the treatment of hyperthyroidism. A seven-year evaluation.

It is the purpose of this presentation to add a seven-year experience to the evergrowing literature of the treatment of hyperthyroidism with radioactive iodine. This experience with 294 consecutive patients has led to the formation of some opinions concerning several controversial aspects, such as minimum age for treatment, size of dose and dosage schedules, and effects of supplementary antithyroid drugs. Material and Methods A total of 294 patients (237 females and 57 males) with hyperthyroidism, from the Radioisotope Service of the Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, and from our private files over the past seven years constitute the basis of this report. The diagnosis of hyperthyroidism was established by a complete history, physical examination, and an I 131 thyroid profile. 1 The thyroid profile consists of a 24-hour uptake, conversion ratio, and measurement of the radioactivity of the saliva. In many instances a basal metabolic rate, chemical protein-bound iodine, and

CYSTS OF THE VAGINA IN THE NEWBORN INFANT

Congenital cysts of the vagina in the newborn infant are single cysts about ½ to ¾ in. in diameter located at the introitus of the vagina. They usually arise (Fig. 1) from the anterior wall and may extend on to the lateral wall. They are posterior to the urethra and anterior to the hymenal orifice and may give the appearance of a urethrocele. Vaginal cysts of the newborn infant are said to be uncommon.1The accuracy of this statement is questionable, since most pediatric textbooks make no mention of the condition and experienced pediatricians and obstetricians have not seen a single case. Recently five newborn infants with cysts of the vagina were observed; three at Lebanon Hospital, one at Harlem Hospital (Fig. 2), and one at Jewish Memorial Hospital. All of them occurred in otherwise full-term normal infants. The pregnancy of each of the mothers of these children

Cysts of the vagina in the newborn infant.

Congenital cysts of the vagina in the newborn infant are single cysts about ½ to ¾ in. in diameter located at the introitus of the vagina. They usually arise (Fig. 1) from the anterior wall and may extend on to the lateral wall. They are posterior to the urethra and anterior to the hymenal orifice and may give the appearance of a urethrocele. Vaginal cysts of the newborn infant are said to be uncommon.1The accuracy of this statement is questionable, since most pediatric textbooks make no mention of the condition and experienced pediatricians and obstetricians have not seen a single case. Recently five newborn infants with cysts of the vagina were observed; three at Lebanon Hospital, one at Harlem Hospital (Fig. 2), and one at Jewish Memorial Hospital. All of them occurred in otherwise full-term normal infants. The pregnancy of each of the mothers of these children

Triad of pneumonia, pneumatocele, and spontaneous pneumothorax in infants.

Intrathoracic collections of air have been of particular interest to the pediatrician because of the serious clinical picture often presented by infants and children with this condition. The dyspnea, cyanosis, and frequently critical state of these patients has led to a voluminous literature describing such cases. The purpose of this paper is to describe the concurrent association of pneumonia, pneumatocele, and spontaneous pneumothorax in three infants. This triad was first described in 1947 in the British literature. This is the second report of this condition. REPORT OF CASES Case1.—A 6-week-old white girl was admitted to the Jewish Memorial Hospital on Feb. 24, 1952. She had been in good health and was gaining weight. Two days before admission, loss of appetite was noted and respiratory distress began. On admission, she was found to have a right pneumothorax, with 40% collapse and displacement of the heart to the left side. Inflammatory

Chest X-Ray DiagnosisChest X-Ray Diagnosis. By RitvoMax, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Instructor in Radiology, Tufts Medical School; Roentgenologist-in-Chief and Director, Department of Radiology, Boston City Hospital; Associate Radiologist, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.; Radiologist, Jewish Memorial, Hospital, Jewish Tuberculosis Sanatorium of New England, Revere Memorial Hospital, and Hudson Hospital. A volume of 558 pages, with 615

Chest X-Ray Diagnosis<scp>Chest X-Ray Diagnosis</scp>. By RitvoMax, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Instructor in Radiology, Tufts Medical School; Roentgenologist-in-Chief and Director, Department of Radiology, Boston City Hospital; Associate Radiologist, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.; Radiologist, Jewish Memorial, Hospital, Jewish Tuberculosis Sanatorium of New England, Revere Memorial Hospital, and Hudson Hospital. A volume of 558 pages, with 615

E. William Abramowitz, M.D. 1885-1949.

Dr. E. William Abramowitz died June 13, 1949, at his home after a lingering illness. He was 63 years old. At the time of his death he was clinical professor at the New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital of the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. He had been connected with the former and its affiliate, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, since 1927. He was also attending dermatologist and syphilologist of the Israel-Zion Division of the Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and director of dermatology and syphilology at Gouverneur Hospital and the Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York city. Born in Jassy, Rumania, he was brought to New York as an infant. After studying engineering at Cooper Union he entered the New York University and Bellevue Medical College, from which he received his M.D. degree in 1907. He was an extern at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1908 and served as assistant house surgeon at the New York Lying-in Hospital that year and as house physician and surgeon at Har Moriah Hospital in 1909. In 1910 he began general practice in New York, and the following year he started to study diseases of the skin at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was an assistant in the skin clinic for several years. In 1914 he joined the staff of the skin department of Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia University, rising to the position of attending dermatologist. He was a member of the American Dermatological Association, a founder, past president and an honary member of the Brooklyn Dermatological Society, a former vice president of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, a former chairman of the skin section of the New York State Medical Society and a member of the New York County Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Abramowitz was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a former chairman of its section on dermatology and syphilology. He was also a former chairman of the Manhattan Dermatological Society ; a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology and a former corresponding member of the French Society of Dermatology. He was certified as a specialist by the American Board of Dermatology and Syphilology in 1933. He belonged to the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity. He was the author of more than 50 papers on skin diseases and related subjects. He was an ardent teacher and investigator. He lectured on pharmacol¬ ogy and drug eruptions at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and his work on dermatitis medicamentosa survives as an outstanding contribution. Dr. Abramowitz was a very modest and quiet man, loyal and very likable. He made friends easily and retained them. Early in his medical career he cultivated music as a hobby, became an excellent violinist and for many years entertained his friends with performance of the classic works for this instrument. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Anne Perlman Abramowitz, and a daughter. Miss Florence Abramow-itz. Isadore Rosen

CO-EXISTING LOBAR ADENOCARCINOMA AND CYSTIC DISEASE OF THE LUNG

Case Reports1 February 1951CO-EXISTING LOBAR ADENOCARCINOMA AND CYSTIC DISEASE OF THE LUNGHYMAN E. BASS, M.D., F.A.C.P., EMANUEL SINGER, M.D.HYMAN E. BASS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, EMANUEL SINGER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-34-2-498 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe following case report deals with a patient with cystic disease of the lung who subsequently developed an unusual type of carcinoma in the same lung.CASE REPORTA white male, aged 59, was admitted to the Jewish Memorial Hospital on February 18, 1947. He had been complaining of cough and expectoration of purulent sputum for 15 years. He had been hospitalized at various hospitals on a number of occasions as a suspected case of pulmonary tuberculosis. Roentgen-ray examination of the chest invariably showed multiple cystic areas in the right upper lung field with occasional fluid levels, while the left...Bibliography1. WomackGraham NAEA: Epithelial metaplasia in congenital cystic disease of the lung; its possible relation to carcinoma of the bronchus, Am. J. Path. 17: 645-654, 1941. MedlineGoogle Scholar2. MoerschClagett HJOT: Pulmonary cysts, J. Thoracic Surg. 16: 179-199, 1947. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Ibid.: Discussion. Google Scholar4. Korol E: Observations on cystic and bullous emphysema of the lungs: a study of 100 cases, Dis. of Chest 13: 669-672, 1947. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. SilvermanAngrist GA: Lobar adenocarcinoma of the lung simulating pneumonia: report of two cases, Arch. Int. Med. 81: 369-380, 1948. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Received for publication March 5, 1949.From the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byAssociation between Congenital Lung Malformations and Lung Tumors in Children and Adults: A Systematic ReviewA resected case of G-CSF-producing lung cancer associated with pulmonary bullaBolha gigante infecciosa associada a câncer de pulmãoClinical features of primary lung cancer adjoining pulmonary bulla☆Primary lung carcinoma arising from emphysematous bullaeEpithelial hyperplasia and malignant change in congenital lung cysts.Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma arising in longstanding lung cysts.Semimaligne Primärtumoren der Bronchien und LungenMetastasierendes Lungencarcinom aus juveniler LungenadenomatoseMyxosarcoma Complicating a Cystic Hamartoma of the LungCarcinoma Arising in a Congenital Lung CystDie BronchiektasienCarcinoma Complicating Cyst of LungBronchiolar carcinomaBRONCHIOLAR (“ALVEOLAR CELL”) CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG 1 February 1951Volume 34, Issue 2Page: 498-507KeywordsAdenocarcinomaGratitudeLung and intrathoracic tumorsLungsPulmonary diseasesSputumThorax ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1951 PDF downloadLoading ...

The Efficiency of Blood Substitution

Journal Article The Efficiency of Blood Substitution Get access Harry Wallerstein, M.D., Harry Wallerstein, M.D. From the Erythroblastosis Fetalis Clinic and the Department of Hematology, Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven S. Brodie, PH.D. Steven S. Brodie, PH.D. From the Erythroblastosis Fetalis Clinic and the Department of Hematology, Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 18, Issue 11, 1 November 1948, Pages 857–866, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/18.11.857 Published: 01 November 1948 Article history Received: 30 March 1948 Published: 01 November 1948

COMMUNICATION: FAILURE OF MENOPAUSAL URINE CONCENTRATES TO INDUCE EGG EXTRUSION IN FEMALE XENOPUS FROG TEST FOR PREGNANCY*

Journal Article COMMUNICATION: FAILURE OF MENOPAUSAL URINE CONCENTRATES TO INDUCE EGG EXTRUSION IN FEMALE XENOPUS FROG TEST FOR PREGNANCY Get access Abner I. Weisman, Abner I. Weisman 1Department of Gynecology, Jewish Memorial Hospital, and New York Zoological Society New York, N. Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher W. Coates Christopher W. Coates 1Department of Gynecology, Jewish Memorial Hospital, and New York Zoological Society New York, N. Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1 January 1944, Pages 35–36, https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-4-1-35 Published: 01 January 1944

ACUTE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA

The literature has several excellent reports of Lederer's anemia. 1 We recently observed a case which is identical in type with those originally described by Lederer. REPORT OF A CASE J. G., a boy of Jewish extraction, 25 months of age, was admitted to the Jewish Memorial Hospital on May 6, 1938. He had been in excellent health until February 1938, at which time bilateral myringotomy was performed for otitis media. His recovery from this illness was rapid and uneventful. His parents were in excellent health and had no history of chronic illness. On May 1 the infant suddenly became acutely ill, with elevation of temperature to 103 F. and continuous vomiting. Three days later the mother observed a yellowish tinge of the boy's skin and became alarmed because of his extreme pallor and listlessness. One of us (W. L.) saw the patient with the family physician, Dr. L. Rosenblum,