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Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust. By Grant T. Harward. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. xviii, 342 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $49.95, hard bound; $29.99 e-book
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Volume 82, Issue 1, p. 219-220
ISSN: 2325-7784
Food Supply, Starvation, and Food As a Weapon in the Camps and Ghettos of Romanian-Occupied Bessarabia and Transnistria, 1941-44
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 43-80
ISSN: 2292-7956
The Romanian regime of wartime leader Ion Antonescu concentrated the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovyna in transit camps and ghettos, and then deported them to the Romanian-administered territory between the Dnister and Buh rivers, in southwestern Ukraine. Of approximately 160,000 Romanian Jews deported to "Transnistria," only 50,000 survived the ordeal. The Romanians, with local Volksdeutsch and Ukrainian collaborators, also massacred and were otherwise responsible for the death of approximately 150,000 local Ukrainian Jews, including the large Jewish community of Odesa. While not comparable to the Jews in number, deported Romanian Roma and local Roma were also subjected to physical brutality, forced labour, and incarceration.
Famine and starvation did not cause all Jewish and Roma deaths in Bessarabia and Transnistria. Mass executions exacted a huge toll. So did exposure to the elements, exhaustion, and typhus. Still, while there was no famine in the region, starvation was a permanent presence. Romanian authorities controlled the food supply and denied it to their targeted victims. This article describes the steps taken by Romanian occupation authorities to isolate Jews and Roma; to limit the flow of food supplies to them; to prevent them from accessing food in local markets; and to prevent help that might have been offered by those local civilians who took pity on the starving victims. Official documentation and testimonies of both officials and survivors provide a vivid picture of the consequences. Specific cases reveal factors that made the situation in one locality better or worse than that in another, or that caused a situation to improve or deteriorate. Variations notwithstanding, however, all sources lead to the conclusion that Romania's goal was to eliminate the Jews and reduce the Roma population. This made starvation, the use of "food as a weapon," an acceptable element of state policy.
A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944. By Vladimir Solonari. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 308 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $55.00, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Volume 79, Issue 4, p. 849-850
ISSN: 2325-7784
Protestant residues in corporate ethics
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 615-623
ISSN: 1573-3416
Protestant Residues in Corporate Ethics
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 615-623
ISSN: 0891-4486
A review essay on Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (Oxford U Press, in publication [see listing IRPS No. 52]). Themes of corporate morality new to the literature of business ethics & morality are used to show residues of the Protestant ethic in corporate ethics. Seven Protestant motifs are identified in Jackall's description of modern corporations, & elaborated, showing the ultimate outcome of bureaucracy, to be a transvaluation of religious norms, ethics, & morality. Bureaucracy is argued to be a decivilizing process that tends to decrease an individual's spontaneous expressiveness. Bureaucratization also acts as a destabilizing force on individual identity & institutions, thus generating a thanatotic ethos. This idea is explored with reference to the death instinct & its two key mechanisms: inertia & the repetition compulsion. Puritan residues in bureaucracy are explored in the emasculation of heroism in politics, & in the ethic of delegated responsibility, & Goffmanian images of front stage & backstage are applied to corporate analysis. Questions are raised about the expression of self, & the character structure of the modern person. C. Grindle
REVIEW ESSAY - Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (see abstract of review in SA 38:2)
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 615-623
ISSN: 0891-4486
Scholarship and Partisanship: Essays on Max Weber.Reinhard Bendix , Guenther Roth
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 87, Issue 3, p. 727-729
ISSN: 1537-5390
Entitled to Cheat: An Examination of Incoming Freshmen at a Small Regional University
In: The Journal of public and professional sociology, Volume 4, Issue 1
ISSN: 2154-8935
How close is too close?: The negative relationship between knowledge of HIV transmission routes and social distancing tendencies
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Volume 42, Issue 4, p. 629-637
ISSN: 0362-3319
Nazi persecution and postwar repercussions: the International Tracing Service archive and Holocaust research
In: Documenting life and destruction: Holocaust sources in context 11
The International Tracing Service holdings -- "Our mothers, our fathers" : Lahnstein -- Jewish voices -- Hour zero : the year 1945 -- Imagining the refugee -- Appendix I. The International Tracing Service holdings by subunit -- Appendix II. Finding aids for the International Tracing Service holdings
A Decade of Progress toward Ending the Intensive Confinement of Farm Animals in the United States
In this paper, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) farm animal protection work over the preceding decade is described from the perspective of the organization. Prior to 2002, there were few legal protections for animals on the farm, and in 2005, a new campaign at the HSUS began to advance state ballot initiatives throughout the country, with a decisive advancement in California (Proposition 2) that paved the way for further progress. Combining legislative work with undercover farm and slaughterhouse investigations, litigation and corporate engagement, the HSUS and fellow animal protection organizations have made substantial progress in transitioning the veal, pork and egg industries away from intensive confinement systems that keep the animals in cages and crates. Investigations have become an important tool for demonstrating widespread inhumane practices, building public support and convincing the retail sector to publish meaningful animal welfare policies. While federal legislation protecting animals on the farm stalled, there has been steady state-by-state progress, and this is complemented by major brands such as McDonald's and Walmart pledging to purchase only from suppliers using cage-free and crate-free animal housing systems. The evolution of societal expectations regarding animals has helped propel the recent wave of progress and may also be driven, in part, by the work of animal protection organizations.
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A Decade of Progress toward Ending the Intensive Confinement of Farm Animals in the United States
In this paper, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) farm animal protection work over the preceding decade is described from the perspective of the organization. Prior to 2002, there were few legal protections for animals on the farm, and in 2005, a new campaign at the HSUS began to advance state ballot initiatives throughout the country, with a decisive advancement in California (Proposition 2) that paved the way for further progress. Combining legislative work with undercover farm and slaughterhouse investigations, litigation and corporate engagement, the HSUS and fellow animal protection organizations have made substantial progress in transitioning the veal, pork and egg industries away from intensive confinement systems that keep the animals in cages and crates. Investigations have become an important tool for demonstrating widespread inhumane practices, building public support and convincing the retail sector to publish meaningful animal welfare policies. While federal legislation protecting animals on the farm stalled, there has been steady state-by-state progress, and this is complemented by major brands such as McDonald's and Walmart pledging to purchase only from suppliers using cage-free and crate-free animal housing systems. The evolution of societal expectations regarding animals has helped propel the recent wave of progress and may also be driven, in part, by the work of animal protection organizations.
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