Important legacies: Native Hawaiian history and anthropology. Schachter, Judith (2013) The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Citizen. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 226 pp., US$95.00, hbk, ISBN: 9781782380115.

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-185
Author(s):  
Alex Golub
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
Hawaiian History

Walter Abish's Fictions: Perfect Unfamiliarity, Familiar Imperfection

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241
Author(s):  
Richard Martin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Experimental Fiction ◽  
Emotional Distance ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Second Year

Writing somewhat sceptically of “recent experimental fiction” in 1975, Morris Dickstein saw a great deal of it as “ebulliently parricidal and cannibalistic,” but detected at the same time “the celebrated ‘cool’ tone…, a cleanness of manner that partly redeems the pervasive irony and emotional distance.” In the case of Walter Abish, the “hot” is the high-spirited inventiveness which grows out of the self-set limitations of a predetermined system; it is part of his own response to the craft of writing: “I was crossing the parade ground in Ramle during my second year in the Tank Corps when quite suddenly the idea of becoming a writer flashed through my mind. A moment of pure exhilaration.”Abish, who was born in Vienna in 1931, spent the formative years of childhood and adolescence in Shanghai, then eight years in Israel, and finally settled in New York City, where in 1960 he became an American citizen. In his writing (a collection of poems, two novels, and two books of short fiction) he has retained an affinity for things European and for the literature of the German-speaking world.

scholarly journals In Search of Missing Collection: The Case of Artist Albert Rappaport

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Vilma Gradinskaitė
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
The Family ◽  
Palma De Mallorca

Summary The artist Albert Rappaport was born in Anykščiai in 1898. In 1911, the family emigrated to New York. Rappaport became an American citizen in 1925 and began to travel widely. He studied fine art in New York, Paris, Dresden and Munich. He visited South America, Africa and traveled extensively through Europe (1925–1927, 1933, 1937–1939), returning to the United States now and again. The artist participated in several dozen exhibitions. He showed his work in Paris, Rome, Florence, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Copenhagen, Mexico City, Havana, New York, Calgary and Montreal, in addition to his solo exhibitions in 1937 in Warsaw and Vilnius, and in Kaunas, Riga and Tallinn in 1938. After Rappaport’s death, in March 17, 1969 in Montreal, his collection of artworks disappeared and has thus far not been found. To date, two of his painted portraits are known to exist – one belongs to the private collection of Jonathan C. Rappaport, another is on display at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal.

Hawaiian

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
ʻŌiwi Parker Jones
Keyword(s):  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Austronesian Language ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
Hawaiian Kingdom ◽  
Hawaiian History ◽  
Creole English

Hawaiian belongs to the Eastern Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family and is indigenous to the islands of Hawaiʻi (see Pawley 1966, Marck 2000, Wilson 2012). Hawaiian is also an endangered language. Not only was the native population decimated after contact with foreigners and foreign diseases but the language itself came under attack after the occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 (for more on Hawaiian history, see Coffman 2009, Sai 2011). Children were thereafter banned from speaking Hawaiian at school and indeed ‘physical punishment for using it could be harsh’ (Native Hawaiian Study Commission 1983: 196). In the decades that followed, Hawaiian was gradually replaced by an English-based creole (HCE or Hawaiʻi Creole English) for practically all Hawaiʻi-born children (Bikerton & Wilson 1987, also Sakoda & Siegel 2003). By the end of the 1970s, most surviving Hawaiian speakers were over 70 years old and fewer than 50 speakers were under the age of 18 (Kawaiʻaeʻa, Housman & Alencastre 2007).

scholarly journals The role of Michael Pupin in solving of Serbian national question

2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Mirko Grcic ◽  
Rajko Gnjato
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
World War ◽  
National Interests ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

Michael I. Pupin was a professor at the University of Columbia, member and the president of Academy of Science in New York; one of the esteemed members of USA National Academy of Science; member and president of many experts and scientific institutions and societies in the USA; member of State Council for Scientific Research by president of the USA during the World War I. Of the great importance for political geography and geopolitics was his activity in Paris during the Peace Conference after the World War I in 1919 also as his great contribution to establishment of state borders of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (later Yugoslavia), which helped those nations to establish their national borders at maximum level. Pupin claimed that he was Yugoslav patriot and American citizen. Role of M. Pupin in battle for national interests and Yugoslav borders after the World War I is shown in this article.

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