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Jonathan Kaplan

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Jewish Culture and Contexts

An analysis of the Jubilee’s interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity in conversation with Utopian StudiesIn Proclaim Liberty, Jonathan Kaplan examines the Jubilee in its original context, when it primarily referred to an ancient Israelite economic practice: that of announcing liberty for enslaved Israelites every fifty years and returning real estate to its original ancestral owners in that year. Kaplan tells the story of how ...

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Jonathan Kaplan

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station: "A gripping memoir" of a doctor's education on the battlefield ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).Inspired by his father's time as a military surgeon in World War II, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed South African general hospital in a black township. Fleeing apartheid, he traveled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing r...

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Jonathan Kaplan

I have been standing in front of cameras selling things for longer than most readers of this book have been alive, first in a world where a television set was the only storefront and now in a world where the storefront lives in a pocket. The camera changes everything about selling, and almost nobody teaches the craft correctly. They teach the buttons, the software, and the lighting, but they never teach the thing that actually matters: that the human being on the other side of the screen h...

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Jonathan Kaplan

You do not need another app. You need a system. Most creators who fail on TikTok do not fail because they lack talent or because the algorithm is unfair. They fail because they treat every video as a brand new emergency, open the app, stare at a blank draft, and try to invent something clever from nothing. The truth is that TikTok rewards consistency, relevance, and a strong opening far more than it rewards inspiration, and artificial intelligence is the lever that makes that process avail...

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Jonathan Kaplan

Surgery carries more individual responsibility than any other field of medicine. Jonathan Kaplan studied medicine in South Africa and, after working in a black township and being drafted by the South African army, he chose exile rather than serve the apartheid state. He travelled the globe in search of sanctuary, experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheaval and a jungle search for a lost friend. Kaplan landed eventually in Angola and took charge of a combat zone hospital, the on...

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Jonathan Kaplan

In this "vividly compelling" New York Times Notable Book, a surgeon recounts his experiences in war zones ( The Washington Post).From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved (and lost) lives in the remotest corners of the world in the most extreme conditions. He has been a hospital surgeon, a ship's physician, an air-ambulance doctor, and a t...

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Jonathan Kaplan

The world of the international rugby referee has always been a closely guarded secret … until now.As a Durban schoolboy, Jonathan Kaplan watched rugby at Kings Park every Saturday, dreaming of the day he would represent his country. Now, three decades later and at the age of 47, he reflects on the career highs and lows that saw him retire as the most capped international, Super Rugby and Currie Cup referee of all time.But records and milestones are just a part of an intrigu...

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Jonathan Kaplan

Winner of the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice AwardJonathan Kaplan has been a hospital surgeon, a flying doctor, a ship's medical officer and a battlefield surgeon. He has worked in places as diverse as Burma, Kurdistan, America, Mozambique, England and Eritrea. The Dressing Station presents a vivid, moving account of the varied faces of medicine he has encountered. In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the pract...

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Jonathan Kaplan

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allego...

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Jonathan Kaplan, PhD

Discovering an Oasis of Calm in the CityThe city is an exciting yet demanding place to live. Although you love the tremendous energy and diversity of the urban environment, the day-to-day grind of going to work and navigating crowds, traffic, and lines can leave you feeling weary and disconnected.Respectful of the challenges and advantages that arise when you live or work in the city, Urban Mindfulness provides practical advice for transforming everyday exp...

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Zvi Jonathan Kaplan

This book analyzes the development of Jewish positions on the relationship between Church and State from the Revolution until the Great War It is a comprehensive study of the complex interplay among different segments of the Jewish population and the community’s attempt to come to terms with its social and religious status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.As this book demonstrates, the organized French Jewish community strategically charted the political waters by st...

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Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

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Dress Cultures

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-FictionSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods – both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists – all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched.Jews in...