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Forty Years In America (eBook, ePUB)
Forty Years in AmericaMemoirs of a Jewish Educatorby Zevi ScharfsteinProfessor, Teachers Institute, Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaTranslated from Hebrew and edited by Daniel M. Chernoff Zevi Scharfstein was born in 1884 in a small town in what is now Ukraine but was then the Pale of Settlement in Imperial Russia. Growing up in the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement, he became an adherent of Zionism, in particular the movement to change Hebrew from a purely liturgical language to the common secular language of Jews throughout the world. His entire long career was devoted to making Hebrew a living language, in teaching Hebrew to generations of future Hebrew teachers, and in studying the history of Hebrew pedagogy in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Scharfstein and his wife had an unplanned emigration to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, when they found themselves in Switzerland on their honeymoon and unable to return home. Arriving with thirty-nine dollars, several letters of recommendation as a Hebrew teacher, and little else, Scharfstein quickly became an author of Hebrew textbooks for the Jewish Bureau of Education in New York City, then an independent author with his own publishing house (Shilo Publishing) with a prolific number of textbooks and dictionaries for students and teachers of Hebrew. He also interacted with and observed many of the leading lights of Jewish education and Zionism of the day. In the 1950s, Scharfstein wrote two autobiographical works in Hebrew, one detailing his youth up until the time of his emigration to the United States, the second recounting forty years of personal history as an important figure in Hebrew education in the United States. This is an English translation of that second book, Forty Years in America. It is not simply an autobiography, it is also a history of American Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, and includes mini-biographies of famous and less-famous but influential scholars and Zionists with whom Scharfstein had interactions, among them Louis Brandeis, Henrietta Szold, and Chaim Nachman Bialik.- Shop: buecher
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The Squam Lake Report : Fixing the Financial System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min
In the fall of 2008, 15 of the world's leading economists - representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion - gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the regulation of financial markets - not just for the current climate - but for generations to come. They look at the critical holes in the existing regulatory framework for handling complex financial institutions, retirement savings, and credit-default swaps. They offer ideas for new financial instruments designed to recapitalize banks without burdening taxpayers. To lower the risk that large banks will fail, the authors call for higher capital requirements as well as a systemic regulator who is part of the central bank. They collectively analyze where the financial system has failed, and how these weak points should be overhauled.Combining an immense depth of academic, private sector, and public policy experience, The Squam Lake Report contains urgent recommendations that will positively influence everyone's financial well-being - all who care about the world's economic health need to pay attention.Contributors include Kenneth R. French, Martin N. Baily, John Y. Campbell, John H. Cochrane, Douglas W. Diamond, Darrell Duffie, Anil K. Kashyap, Frederic S. Mishkin, Raghuram G. Rajan, David S. Scharfstein, Robert J. Shiller, Hyun Song Shin, Matthew J. Slaughter, Jeremy C. Stein, and Rene M. Stulz. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Kliban, Ken Kliban. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002488/bk_adbl_002488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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