“…I would be happy to find a little bit of a place in Russian literature…”: Abraham Vysotsky’s letters to Maxim Gorky

The published materials are the correspondence of Maxim Gorky and Abraham Leibovich Vysotsky, which had been awaiting publication for many years. Publishers raise the question of A.L. Vysotsky’s place in Jewish literature in Russian and in Russian literature. It is noted that Vysotsky’s works, appreciated by M. Gorky, who published a number of them in the journals “Letopis’” and “Beseda”, were not included in the canon of both Russian literature as well as its RussianJewish branch, and Israeli literature in Russian . The writer's biography, genesis and poetics of his works have so far remained beyond the attention of researchers, and one of the objectives of this publication is to try to fill this gap. In the introductory article, relying on archival materials, Vysotsky’s biography is reconstructed, a number of important facts are clarified, including his date of birth, information about his education, literary activity and connection with the Zionist movement is presented, the most significant periods of his life in Russia and Eretz Israel, where he repatriated in 1920, are described, and information on translations of his works into other languages and experiments on their staging is reported. Particular attention of the publishers is focused on the history of interaction between Vysotsky and Gorky who never met personally. This interaction developed exclusively in correspondence, which initially concerned Vysotsky’s attempts to offer his short stories to Gorky for publication in his journals. Letters are published according to autographs from the Gorky Archive (Institute of World Literature). The publication is supplemented by two appendixes containing Vysotsky's essay “Maxim Gorky and Zionism” and his drama “Blood of the Maccabees”.

Protocolo y TIC: las series de TV como herramienta docente | Protocol and ICT: TV shows as a learning tool

La docencia en el s. XXI va a cambiar radicalmente. A finales del siglo pasado, con el nacimiento de internet, surgen las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) que cambian completamente la vida de las personas. Dichas tecnologías han de entrar en las aulas. Este trabajo es fruto del esfuerzo por introducir las TIC en las aulas con el fin de mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje para los estudiantes de protocolo.Los pasados enero-marzo de 2018 en la clase de protocolo y organización de eventos de la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, se convirtieron las series de TV en material docente con el fin mejorar el aprendizaje de los alumnos de los conceptos de esta materia. Este trabajo presenta el método empleado y los resultados obtenidos._________________Teaching in the 21th century is going to change radically. At the end of last century, with the Internet’s birth, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) arise to change people’s lives. These technologies must enter the classrooms. This paper is the outcome of the effort to introduce ICT in the classroom to improve the student’s understanding and learning of protocol concepts.Last January-March 2018 in the events organizing and protocol subject at Jaume’s I University in Castellón, we converted TV shows into teaching material in order to improve the learning process of the students in this theme. This paper presents the method and the results used.

Precise Assessment on Birth Information at the Civil Registry and Live Births Information System in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Objective: to assess the precision on birth information at the Civil Registry and Sistema de Informações Sobre Nascidos Vivos (Sinasc) (Live Births Information System) in Minas Gerais with the purpose to analyze the most recent fecundity level and pattern on women and to assess the hypotheses on the fertility component for populational projections adopted by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in the 2013 review. Methods: the estimation level of under registration at the Civil Registry and Sinasc was based on the comparison of number of births registered by these sources with the number of births obtained from an independent source, estimated by the Brass P/F technique with adaptation. Results: in 2010, the coverage on the Civil Registry and Sinasc was 96.0% and 95.0%, respectively. In the period of 2003 to 2015, both sources point to the same trend. From 2011, the total number of births was practically the same. The corrected Total Fertility Rate and The Specific Fertility Rates had a very similar level and pattern in the period of 2010 to 2015. Discrepancies in the fertility hypotheses were observed from the IBGE. Conclusions: from 2010, the births registered in both data sources were considered as good statistical quality in Minas Gerais and the hypotheses of the fertility level and pattern in the IBGE projections need to be revised.