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Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition

[RG #65] Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition

November 1995 - August 1996

Organizer:

Israel Agranat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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The notion of chirality has emerged as a major theme in drug design and discovery. Many of the new chiral drugs are being developed as single enantiomers. Chiral recognition is one of the most significant topics of contemporary stereochemical studies and is an essential component of pharmacological events.

 

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Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

[RG #64] Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

February - August 1996

Organizers:

Richard Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ezra Mendelsohn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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This Research Group is composed of scholars in a number of disciplines: art history, Jewish history, theatre, sociology and anthropology. All are interested in the ways in which the study of modern Jewish society can be advanced through a study of visual images, ranging from high art to caricatures, exhibitions in museums and world fairs and the stage. Another principle concern in to examine how certain images can be better understood by placing them in their proper Jewish context.

 

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Meeting of Cultures in the Hellenistic Roman World

[RG #63] Meeting of Cultures in the Hellenistic Roman World

September 1995 - August 1996

Organizers: 

Uriel Rappaport (University of Haifa)
Israel Shatzman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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The Research Group will explore a wide range of historical and cultural themes relating to the Mediterranean world in Hellenistic and Roman times. The disciplines of history, palaeography, archaeology, numismatics, legal history, Talmudic studies and classical philology will all play a key role in deepening the group's research.

 

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Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor

[RG #87] Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor

March 1, 2002 – August 31, 2002

Organizer:

Naama Goren-Inbar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Few areas of the world have played as prominent a role in human evolution as the Levantine Corridor, a comparatively narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the expanse of inhospitable desert to the east. The first hominids to leave Africa, over 1.5 million years ago, first entered the Levant before spreading into what is now Europe and Asia. About 100,000 years ago another African exodus, this time of anatomically modern humans, colonized the Levant before expanding into Eurasia. Toward the end of the Pleistocene, this Corridor also witnessed some of the earliest steps toward economic and social intensification, perhaps the most radical change in hominid lifestyle that ultimately paved the way for sedentary communities wholly dependent on domestic animals and cultivated plants.

 

 

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Biblical Hebrew in its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives

[RG #86] Biblical Hebrew in its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives

October 1, 2001 – September 30, 2002

Organizers:

Steven Fassberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Avi Hurvitz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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In 1961 William L. Moran published “The Hebrew Language in Its Northwest Semitic Background” (The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of William Foxwell Albright, ed. G. Ernest Wright). In it, Moran presented a state-of-the-art description of the linguistic milieu out of which Biblical Hebrew developed. He stressed the features found in earlier Northwest Semitic languages that are similar to Hebrew, and he demonstrated how the study of those languages sheds light on Biblical Hebrew. More than forty years have passed since the publication of William L. Moran’s now classic description of Hebrew in the light of its Northwest Semitic background. Since the late 1950’s, when the article was written, our knowledge of both Northwest Semitic and the Hebrew of the biblical period has increased considerably.

Our research group will convene to undertake research in the light of the significant advances in the study of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic in the past four decades.

 

 

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