Louise Weiss was a young girl of the upper bourgeoisie, growing up in France during the turn of the century. Intellectually gifted and well educated, she started very young to write for the press, and by the age of twenty eight was editor in chief of l'Europe Nouvelle, a major i…
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The present study explores the relationship between language and architecture as symbolic systems against the background of the creation of independent Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I. It takes as its focus the Prague Castle, and the intent of the first President of Cze…
The dissertation presents a linguistic analysis of the language of the sixteenth century Czech manuscript Cesta z Czech do Geruzalema knieze Martina Bakalarze (Martin Bakalarz's journey from Bohemia to Jerusalem), comparing it with two other sixteenth century Czech texts similar…
This dissertation examines the Orientalist literature of Else Lasker-Schuler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel. The research focuses on two of Lasker-Schuler's collections of short stories and poems entitled Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (1907) and Der Prinz von Theben (1912), Wol…
This thesis examines the determinants of success and failure in cases of autonomous deterrence by middle powers threatened with attack by much stronger states, and the impact of external constraints upon deterrence strategy choice under such asymmetric conditions. It addresses b…
This is a study of Chava Shapiro, a woman writer, born in 1876 in the Ukraine, who died in 1943 in Nazi Czechoslovakia. It describes her conventional Hasidic upbringing, her successful rebellion against it and her subsequent studies in Switzerland which led to a career in Hebrew…