Hillel Levine

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University of Virginia

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Central European University

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University of Haifa

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Francisco Vazquez-Garcia

Universidad de Cadiz

Daniel Abrams

Bar-Ilan University

Yehuda Halper

Bar-Ilan University

Hillel Cohen

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research

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University of California, Berkeley

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Computer modeling of mixing and agglomeration in coal conversion reactors. Sixth quarterly technical report, January 1, 1980-March 31, 1980

The purpose of this contract is to develop a method for understanding mixing, pyrolysis, and aggl... more The purpose of this contract is to develop a method for understanding mixing, pyrolysis, and agglomeration in coal conversion reactors by simulating actual reactor operating conditions with realistic, time-dependent computer calculations of the internal fluid dynamic, heat transfer, and chemical processes. Describing the evolution of stickiness and its effect on particle collisions will permit quantitative calculations of agglomeration and define regimes of satisfactory reactor operation. The first reactor under study is the Westinghouse devolatilizer unit, which is designed to avoid caking agglomeration. An axisymmetric, time-dependent simulation of the fluid dynamics has been developed and used for initial cold-flow calculations. Gas-phase chemistry has been coupled successfully to the fluid dynamics. Particle chemistry, emphasizing coal pyrolysis, has been a focus of the work, and much progress is reported. A relationship has been developed to determine whether or not two colliding, viscoelastic particles will agglomerate. The sticking probability depends, among other things, on the diameters, relative velocities, and viscosities of the particles. During the coming year, these and other modules will be coupled to produce a method for analyzing mixing and agglomeration phenomena in the Westinghouse devolatilizer unit that later can be adapted to assist in optimization and scale-up of other (caking or ash) agglomerating reactors.

International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education

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Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean

Successful treatment of cryptococcal meningitis with liposomal amphotericin B after failure of treatment with fluconazole and conventional amphotericin B

AIDS, 1991

Going on Faith : Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Marlowe, 1999

In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust (review)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 1997

all had a long tradition of welcoming immigrants, so long as they were white and of European orig... more all had a long tradition of welcoming immigrants, so long as they were white and of European origin. And with the exception of Newfoundland all had relatively tolerant migration policies. Yet when it came to Jews, undoubtedly the most desperate immigrants of the twentieth century, all outdid one another in devising excuses why Jews were unacceptable. Each produced public opinion polls, or argued the need for national unity, or pleaded poverty or lack of employment possibilities, or the need to follow the example of the Mother Country to rationalize the clanging shut of their immigration gates. But what united them was a consuming antisemitism that permeated <ill of these countries to such an extent that they literally vied with one another to determine who would allow in the fewest Jews. The hands-down winner of this dubious contest was Newfoundland, which apparently admitted none. Perhaps the most telling irony of this period is that in providing a haven to the persecuted European Jewish community the democratic nations of the Commonwealth proved no more generous-and indeed most were far less generous-than autocratic states. The closed societies in Latin America were far more welcoming and hospitable than the open and free societies of the English-speaking world. And for a very good reason. Democratic leaders feared public opinion polls; autocratic leaders did not. Policies which were unpopular with the electorate could defeat governments. Most Commonwealth politicians knew that there were few votes to be won by admitting large numbers of Jews, and many to be lost. None, as this book makes clear, were foolhardy enough to challenge public opinion or to try to change it. As much as anything else it was this pusillanimous leadership in the countries of the Commonwealth that made them "false havens." Irving Abella Department of History York University, Toronto

The Kronika-on Jacob frank and the Frankist movement/ edited and translated by Hillel Levine

On Nations and Nationalities

Worldview, 1973

We Were Like Dreamers

Worldview, 1973

Corruption and State Auditing: the Politics of Indignation

State Audit, 1981

Corruption, like the weather, is a matter about which there is a good deal of talk. And like the ... more Corruption, like the weather, is a matter about which there is a good deal of talk. And like the weather, most people have little faith that anything can be done about it. At first blush, this lack of faith might be corroborated by incessant media reports of transnational, cross-cultural hanky-panky. While recent studies would link corruption to low levels of political consciousness, ambiguous or contradictory norms, conflicting loyalties, or poor administrative techniques, the appearance of corruption in diverse political and legal systems belies any simple functional explanation.1 In East and West, in advanced technological societies and in underdeveloped agricultural regions, in centralized bureaucracies and in federated systems of control, under conditions of intense ideological mobilization like those in China or in cultures which foster individualism as in the United States of America, the violation of the public trust by public servants is far from rare.2 The art of public administration notwithstanding, human venality seems to triumph.

The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions

History: Reviews of New Books, 1993

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Paradise Not Surrendered: Jewish Reactions to Copernicus and the Growth of Modern Science

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1983

Copernicus’s sixteenth century formulation of a heliocentric cosmos, elaborated during the next o... more Copernicus’s sixteenth century formulation of a heliocentric cosmos, elaborated during the next one hundred and fifty years through the work of Bruno, Kepler, Galileo and Newton, has been considered a turning point not only in astronomy but in the growth of scientific knowledge and in the history of ideas. The shift from belief in the well-ordered cosmos in which the earth occupies the central position to notions of an expanded universe in which man and his familiar world are relegated to an insignificant corner played a paramount role in the process whereby, as Alexandre Koyre put it, “human or at least European minds underwent a deep revolution which changed the very framework and patterns of our thinking.”1 Even while it was still a subject of debate within astronomic coteries, poets such as Donne and Milton intuited the broader social and religious implications of the altered conceptions of the planetary arrangements.

Judaism, modernization, and anti-modernization

Contemporary Jewry, 1980

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Is Judaism Thiswordly?

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1995

Excessive polarization of thisworldly and otherworldly oriented action in Judaism is challenged b... more Excessive polarization of thisworldly and otherworldly oriented action in Judaism is challenged by the living and “calling” of Robert S. Cohen. By all appearances and by the criteria of Max Weber, Bob is an altogether secular Jew. But the life of inquiry, integrity, and the passionate commitment of the scholar, teacher, entrepreneur of ideas, and friend (as much as the erudition and involvement in Jewish life of his progeny and progeny’s progeny) point to Bob’s affinities with and nurturance by the tradition of Isaiah and the reversibility of Weber’s concept of secularization. To him and to our more than two decades of the most delightful friendship, of reflecting upon and meeting “the ‘demands of the day’ in human relations as well as in our vocations,” I joyfully dedicate these musings.

Gentry, Jews, and Serfs: The Rise of Polish Vodka

The Death of an American Jewish Community

Contemporary Sociology, 1993

Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 7

Contemporary Sociology, 1988

American Religious Groups View Foreign Policy: Trends in Rank-and-File Opinion, 1937-1969

The American Political Science Review, 1974

Soviet Jews and Middle-Aged Zionism

Worldview, 1972

Ideology is a discredited term in some circles. The geopolitical map of the twentieth century is ... more Ideology is a discredited term in some circles. The geopolitical map of the twentieth century is pockmarked with ideologies gone bad. With the Utopian thinking of the Enlightenment came the conviction that “Ideals can transform reality.” But ideologies that undermined one repressive order in the name of progress became the zealous gods of another. Ideologists credit their Idea with omnipotence, borrowing the techniques of medieval casuistry) to reduce the more blatant discrepancies between the ideal and real.It is true, streets plastered with slogans and millions of people waving little red books are frightening. But the possibility that the technocrats shall inherit the earth is also somewhat disconcerting. The excesses to which “total” ideologies lend themselves should not blind us to other aspects of the ideological enterprise; bloody revolutions and totalitarian regimes do not exhaust the possibilities.

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Computer modeling of mixing and agglomeration in coal conversion reactors. Sixth quarterly technical report, January 1, 1980-March 31, 1980

International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education

The Chicago Semester is an urban internship program sponsored by six schools in the Reformed Chri... more

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Milano interview on natural disasters an

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Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean

Successful treatment of cryptococcal meningitis with liposomal amphotericin B after failure of treatment with fluconazole and conventional amphotericin B

AIDS, 1991

Going on Faith : Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Marlowe, 1999

In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust (review)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 1997