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Paul Kahan
Seminary of Virtue
eminary of Virtue explores the history of
penal education programs, demonstrat-
ing that America’s prisons have historically
been educational (as well as punitive) institutions
. This volume argues that Eastern State
Penitentiary’s extensive and aggressive educational
program reflected a general American
belief that correctional institutions should educate
inmates as a way of reducing recidivism
and thereby «reforming» them . No mere case
study, Seminary of Virtue demonstrates that for
the last two hundred years penologists have believed
that educational programming was one
of the keys to lowering recidivism and «reform-
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The Ideology and Practice of Inmate Reform
at Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1971
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012 .
XVIII, 201 pp ., num . ill .
pb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1341-3
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Christoffer Kølvraa
his book argues that since 2001 the primary
discursive context for articulating
a European identity within the EU has increasingly
become the idea of a common foreign
policy for Europe . A new grand project
of making Europe a true global player is being
put forth and it is this as yet unrealised
ideal that European citizens are now being
asked to identify with .
The author examines European identity
as an ideological construction that seeks to
elicit emotional and affective attachment to
the political project of realising a utopian ideal .
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ing» inmates . Seminary of Virtue also reveals
the historical amnesia that hindered American
penal reform over the same time period as each
succeeding generation believed that their particular
penal reforms were revolutionary .
Paul kahan is an award-winning educator
and historian specializing in the history of
American education, the history of American
corrections, diplomatic history, and Pennsylvania
history . He is best known for his previous
book, Eastern State Penitentiary: A History .
Dr . Kahan has been a featured guest on numerous
television programs, including PA Books
and the Mystery 360 .
Imagining Europe as a Global Player
The Ideological Construction
of a New European Identity within the EU
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012 .
265 pp .
Multiple Europes . Vol . 46
General Editor: Hagen Schulz-Forberg
pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-792-1
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He unravels the discourses involved in the
construction of European identity by drawing
on theories and methods from discourse analysis,
the study of political myths, narratology
and psychoanalysis . The European Neighbourhood
Policy is studied in detail, with a focus
on the dynamic challenges that ensue when
grand ideological statements have to be implemented
in a concrete and specific context .
ChristoFFer kølvraa is Associate Professor
at the Institute for History and Area
Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark .
David S . Mendelsson
Jewish Education in England,
1944-1988
Between Integration and Separation
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
XXIV, 322 pp ., 1 ill ., num . tables
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pb . ISBN 978-3-03911-960-8
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oday, the dominant model for Jewish education
is the community-wide, technologically
advanced day school, where the Judaic
subjects are taught by professional educators
using student-friendly, interactive methodologies
. Not so long ago, however, most Jewish
education consisted of rote repetition of prayers
and biblical passages and their translation into
awkward English by teachers with no formal
pedagogic training, in classes – often located
in synagogue basements – held on Sunday or
once a week after ‘ordinary’ school .
This book explains the radical reconfiguring
of Jewish education in England in historical
and sociocultural terms . It explores the transformations
that took place in every aspect of Jewish
education: curriculum, religious/ideological
orientation, school format (afternoon classes
vs day schools), funding (private vs state), and
more . The author shows that this dramatic transition
directly reflects both changes in the socioeconomic
profile and self-identity of Anglo-
Jewry as well as demographic and cultural
changes in British society in general . Tracking
the shift from integration to separation, this
book maps the effect of competing societal,
personal and communal agendas, pedagogic
paradigms, and pragmatic constraints on the
rise of the Jewish day school in England .
david s. mendelsson graduated from the
University of Manchester and received his MA
and PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s
Institute of Contemporary Jewry . He
teaches modern Jewish history at Hebrew Union
College, where he is Director of the Israel
Studies Program; he also teaches at the Hebrew
University’s Rothberg International School .
His present research interests include patterns
of Jewish identity in Israel, Israeli identity, and
the changing profile of Anglo-Jewry’s commu-
nal self-perception .