James Grossman
Biographic Data
| ID | 108424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Grossman |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossman |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7244-2498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Extraterritorial militarism: Emigrants as soldiers in Israel
Militarism is a discourse that glorifies soldiers and treats military service as a key component of full citizenship. This article contends that states can project militaristic discourse onto citizens living outside their territory, thus creating an extraterritorial variant of militarism. When home-state elites construct overseas citizens as soldiers, they evaluate them based on their military record or their potential as prospective soldiers. Th…
It’s All Personal’: State-led mobilisation of diaspora individuals
State-led engagement with diaspora communities abroad has been an increasingly salient feature in international politics. In addition to governments’ attempts to mobilise diaspora collectives, existing research highlights the importance governments attach to key diasporic individuals (diasporans). How do governments decide which diasporans to harness? This article argues that states use tailored and personalised strategies to mobilise diasporans.…
Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared
This article examines how home states define and redefine membership within ‘their’ diaspora and how certain groups and individuals are excluded from this conception through discourse, policy and practice. We argue that ontological security, or the state’s need for a stable sense of identity, coherence and continuity, involves a consistent narrative about belonging that is directed at emigrants and their descendants and shapes how states interact…
How Standards Became Documents: Uniform Screw Threads and Standardization in the Age of Industrial Print
In the nineteenth century, the process of creating standards became part of a burgeoning engineering print culture. Long before their institutionalization in standards institutes in the early twentieth century, standards evolved into a print genre-one that has remained largely invisible in historical accounts. This article recovers this print history of standards. I argue that in Joseph Whitworth's On an Uniform System of Screw Threads (1841) the…
The evolution of home-state positions towards diaspora formation: Israel and its two diasporas
How do home-state elites react to emigrants who form diaspora communities abroad, and how do these attitudes change over time? The article explores these questions through an analysis of the discourse and policies of Israeli elites towards emigrants who created distinct diaspora communities and established ties with local Jewish diaspora communities between 1977 and 2023. The article highlights the important role that ethnic and national identiti…
Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil
This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those years were using a discourse of Jewish disloyalty. This discourse depicted Jews who adopted a diasporic sta…
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: A Mixed Relationship
This paper explores how powerful diaspora individuals become involved in homeland affairs and the resulting struggles over agency and influence between diaspora and homeland actors. To this end, we analyze plans advanced by Jewish diaspora individuals to resolve the Palestinian Refugee Problem in the wake of the 1967 War and Israel’s reactions to these plans. On the one hand, Israeli officials were interested in the diaspora entrepreneurs’ resour…
Diaspora, Delegitimisation, and Foreign Policy: Unpacking Brazil’s Vote for the “Zionism is Racism” United Nations Resolution
This article analyses Brazil’s 1975 vote in favour of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. Historians and political scientists have investigated extensively the causes for this vote. However, all these analyses focus on Brazil’s relations with other state actors whilst ignoring the possibility that domestic factors, including Brazilian leaders’ attitudes towards Zionism, inf…
Diasporic assistance in authoritarian settings: Evidence from military Brazil
Cite the Good Cite: Making Citations in Political Science More Transparent
Political science research aims for greater transparency. Authors are increasingly expected to share their data and methodology so that readers and reviewers can follow their line of argument and replicate their findings. However, citations of books, articles, and other secondary sources in the discipline are still predominantly general, referring to entire works rather than specific parts of them. This article addresses the problem of the overus…
Can We Do Better? Replication and Online Appendices in Political Science
Replicability in political science is on the rise, as disciplinary journals have been placing a growing emphasis on data access and research transparency (DA–RT) practices and policies. As a result, nearly every article that is published today in leading political science journals offers an online appendix that includes data, code, and methodological explanations necessary for replication. While these developments are laudable, many appendices st…
Political Science and Big Data: Structured Data, Unstructured Data, and How to Use Them
BIG DATA ARE A SALIENT FEATURE of the information tsunami that characterized the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. As a result of the incessant rise in computational power, communication velocity, and storage capacity, new knowledge is accumulating at an exponential rate. Between 2006 and 2011, the amount of data in the world increased almost ninefold. Today, it is expected to double every two years.1 Computer an…
Passing cash from bank notes to bitcoin: Standardizing Money
This essay is about the modern bank note and bitcoin and how each standardizes money. Whether constituted by paper or protocol, whether performing (or failing) as a store of wealth, a medium of exchange, or unit of account, bank notes and bitcoins enact interchangeable equivalence with themselves, every one-pound note or bitcoin the same as another, and their mode of passing hand-to-hand or peer-to-peer also conscripts their holders as readily in…
Toward a definition of diaspora
With the emergence of diaspora studies as a field, scholars from different disciplines have offered diverse definitions of the concept of diaspora. Thus far, scholarly debates about what constitutes a diaspora continue to thrive. In this article, I approach this conceptual divide inductively, by analysing how scholars identify and discuss the defining features of diaspora. I have constructed a database that consists of highly cited articles in th…
Standardization (Standardisation)
Impartiality as a Lack of Interest: Israel, Brazil, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Question of Jerusalem
Persuading foreign countries to move their diplomatic missions from Tel-Aviv to West Jerusalem was a paramount diplomatic objective of Israel in the 1960s, as such an act implied recognition of the city as Israel’s legitimate capital. Based on diplomatic documents from Israeli and Brazilian archives, this article portrays Israel’s attempts to convince Brazil, the world’s largest Latin American and Catholic country, to consent to such a transfer, …
A School within a School of War: Workers Making, Learning and Teaching about History
In June 1988 hotel-workers in Cape Town were amongst many dismissed in the then biggest stay-away against planned anti-union attacks. For months they met daily, organising their struggle for reinstatement: the site of an ongoing collective process of radical worker education for liberation. Workers shared this through a process of documentation and solidarity celebrating their collective agency, reflecting on past, making current, and envisioning…
Assessment Is What We Make of It
As a trigger word among college history faculty members, assessment is remarkably potent.Skepticism arises not illogically and from many sources: concerns about broader centralizing agendas lying beneath the surface; disturbing trends in K-12 education that have tied testing regimes to excessive standardization and teacher bashing; and assumptions that assessment implies inappropriate application of quantified metrics to historical thinking.Moreo…
The character of a global transport infrastructure: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne’s Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, serialized in 1872 and published in English in 1874 as Around the World in Eighty Days, displays through its hero the character, in both senses of the term, of the new global public transport system that had transformed long-distance travel in the nineteenth century. Verne’s fiction imagines the community defined by this system in three particular elements: A high-speed public transport netwo…
Venturing Beyond: Domestic Work as Essential Public Service
The Researched on Research and Researchers: Conversations with Sadsawu
Violência e silêncio: Reescrevendo O Futuro
This paper is about silence and the processes of silencing in relation to working-class experience of violence. It pursues this theme by drawing on a set of experiential anecdotes and incidents which iluminate aspects andviews of violence in lived experience. It then focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Comission process in South Africa and revisit collective lived experience of resistence and the hope it embodied
The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Journal Article Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. (New York: Pantheon, 1998. xii, 427 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44263-4.) Get access James Grossman James Grossman Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1445–1447, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674738 Published:…
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Toward a definition of diaspora
With the emergence of diaspora studies as a field, scholars from different disciplines have offered diverse definitions of the concept of diaspora. Thus far, scholarly debates about what constitutes a diaspora continue to thrive. In this article, I approach this conceptual divide inductively, by analysing how scholars identify and discuss the defining features of diaspora. I have constructed a database that consists of highly cited articles in th…
Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared
This article examines how home states define and redefine membership within ‘their’ diaspora and how certain groups and individuals are excluded from this conception through discourse, policy and practice. We argue that ontological security, or the state’s need for a stable sense of identity, coherence and continuity, involves a consistent narrative about belonging that is directed at emigrants and their descendants and shapes how states interact…
Diasporic assistance in authoritarian settings: Evidence from military Brazil
Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil
This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those years were using a discourse of Jewish disloyalty. This discourse depicted Jews who adopted a diasporic sta…
Diaspora, Delegitimisation, and Foreign Policy: Unpacking Brazil’s Vote for the “Zionism is Racism” United Nations Resolution
This article analyses Brazil’s 1975 vote in favour of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. Historians and political scientists have investigated extensively the causes for this vote. However, all these analyses focus on Brazil’s relations with other state actors whilst ignoring the possibility that domestic factors, including Brazilian leaders’ attitudes towards Zionism, inf…
Can We Do Better? Replication and Online Appendices in Political Science
Replicability in political science is on the rise, as disciplinary journals have been placing a growing emphasis on data access and research transparency (DA–RT) practices and policies. As a result, nearly every article that is published today in leading political science journals offers an online appendix that includes data, code, and methodological explanations necessary for replication. While these developments are laudable, many appendices st…
Passing cash from bank notes to bitcoin: Standardizing Money
This essay is about the modern bank note and bitcoin and how each standardizes money. Whether constituted by paper or protocol, whether performing (or failing) as a store of wealth, a medium of exchange, or unit of account, bank notes and bitcoins enact interchangeable equivalence with themselves, every one-pound note or bitcoin the same as another, and their mode of passing hand-to-hand or peer-to-peer also conscripts their holders as readily in…
Standardization (Standardisation)
Violência e silêncio: Reescrevendo O Futuro
This paper is about silence and the processes of silencing in relation to working-class experience of violence. It pursues this theme by drawing on a set of experiential anecdotes and incidents which iluminate aspects andviews of violence in lived experience. It then focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Comission process in South Africa and revisit collective lived experience of resistence and the hope it embodied
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
The evolution of home-state positions towards diaspora formation: Israel and its two diasporas
How do home-state elites react to emigrants who form diaspora communities abroad, and how do these attitudes change over time? The article explores these questions through an analysis of the discourse and policies of Israeli elites towards emigrants who created distinct diaspora communities and established ties with local Jewish diaspora communities between 1977 and 2023. The article highlights the important role that ethnic and national identiti…
Political Science and Big Data: Structured Data, Unstructured Data, and How to Use Them
BIG DATA ARE A SALIENT FEATURE of the information tsunami that characterized the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. As a result of the incessant rise in computational power, communication velocity, and storage capacity, new knowledge is accumulating at an exponential rate. Between 2006 and 2011, the amount of data in the world increased almost ninefold. Today, it is expected to double every two years.1 Computer an…
Impartiality as a Lack of Interest: Israel, Brazil, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Question of Jerusalem
Persuading foreign countries to move their diplomatic missions from Tel-Aviv to West Jerusalem was a paramount diplomatic objective of Israel in the 1960s, as such an act implied recognition of the city as Israel’s legitimate capital. Based on diplomatic documents from Israeli and Brazilian archives, this article portrays Israel’s attempts to convince Brazil, the world’s largest Latin American and Catholic country, to consent to such a transfer, …
Assessment Is What We Make of It
As a trigger word among college history faculty members, assessment is remarkably potent.Skepticism arises not illogically and from many sources: concerns about broader centralizing agendas lying beneath the surface; disturbing trends in K-12 education that have tied testing regimes to excessive standardization and teacher bashing; and assumptions that assessment implies inappropriate application of quantified metrics to historical thinking.Moreo…
William Sylvis, Pioneer of American Labor: A Study of the Labor Movement During the Era of the Civil War
Journal Article William Sylvis, Pioneer of American Labor: A Study of the Labor Movement During the Era of the Civil War. By Jonathan Grossman. Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. No. 516. Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University Get access Donald L. McMurry Donald L. McMurry Russell Sage College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 32, Issu…
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
United States Army in World War II: The War Department. The Army and Industrial Manpower
Journal Article The Army and Industrial Manpower. By Byron Fairchild and Jonathan Grossman. United States Army in World War II: The War Department. (Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1959. xiv + 291 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $2.75.) Get access Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 2, September 1960, Page 364, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891769 Published: 01 September 1960
Vanzetti and Hawthorne
Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Journal Article Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. (New York: Pantheon, 1998. xii, 427 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44263-4.) Get access James Grossman James Grossman Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1445–1447, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674738 Published:…
The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel
Violência e silêncio: Reescrevendo O Futuro
This paper is about silence and the processes of silencing in relation to working-class experience of violence. It pursues this theme by drawing on a set of experiential anecdotes and incidents which iluminate aspects andviews of violence in lived experience. It then focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Comission process in South Africa and revisit collective lived experience of resistence and the hope it embodied
Venturing Beyond: Domestic Work as Essential Public Service
The Researched on Research and Researchers: Conversations with Sadsawu
The character of a global transport infrastructure: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne’s Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, serialized in 1872 and published in English in 1874 as Around the World in Eighty Days, displays through its hero the character, in both senses of the term, of the new global public transport system that had transformed long-distance travel in the nineteenth century. Verne’s fiction imagines the community defined by this system in three particular elements: A high-speed public transport netwo…
A School within a School of War: Workers Making, Learning and Teaching about History
In June 1988 hotel-workers in Cape Town were amongst many dismissed in the then biggest stay-away against planned anti-union attacks. For months they met daily, organising their struggle for reinstatement: the site of an ongoing collective process of radical worker education for liberation. Workers shared this through a process of documentation and solidarity celebrating their collective agency, reflecting on past, making current, and envisioning…
Assessment Is What We Make of It
As a trigger word among college history faculty members, assessment is remarkably potent.Skepticism arises not illogically and from many sources: concerns about broader centralizing agendas lying beneath the surface; disturbing trends in K-12 education that have tied testing regimes to excessive standardization and teacher bashing; and assumptions that assessment implies inappropriate application of quantified metrics to historical thinking.Moreo…
Impartiality as a Lack of Interest: Israel, Brazil, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Question of Jerusalem
Persuading foreign countries to move their diplomatic missions from Tel-Aviv to West Jerusalem was a paramount diplomatic objective of Israel in the 1960s, as such an act implied recognition of the city as Israel’s legitimate capital. Based on diplomatic documents from Israeli and Brazilian archives, this article portrays Israel’s attempts to convince Brazil, the world’s largest Latin American and Catholic country, to consent to such a transfer, …
Standardization (Standardisation)
Passing cash from bank notes to bitcoin: Standardizing Money
This essay is about the modern bank note and bitcoin and how each standardizes money. Whether constituted by paper or protocol, whether performing (or failing) as a store of wealth, a medium of exchange, or unit of account, bank notes and bitcoins enact interchangeable equivalence with themselves, every one-pound note or bitcoin the same as another, and their mode of passing hand-to-hand or peer-to-peer also conscripts their holders as readily in…
Toward a definition of diaspora
With the emergence of diaspora studies as a field, scholars from different disciplines have offered diverse definitions of the concept of diaspora. Thus far, scholarly debates about what constitutes a diaspora continue to thrive. In this article, I approach this conceptual divide inductively, by analysing how scholars identify and discuss the defining features of diaspora. I have constructed a database that consists of highly cited articles in th…
Political Science and Big Data: Structured Data, Unstructured Data, and How to Use Them
BIG DATA ARE A SALIENT FEATURE of the information tsunami that characterized the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. As a result of the incessant rise in computational power, communication velocity, and storage capacity, new knowledge is accumulating at an exponential rate. Between 2006 and 2011, the amount of data in the world increased almost ninefold. Today, it is expected to double every two years.1 Computer an…
Cite the Good Cite: Making Citations in Political Science More Transparent
Political science research aims for greater transparency. Authors are increasingly expected to share their data and methodology so that readers and reviewers can follow their line of argument and replicate their findings. However, citations of books, articles, and other secondary sources in the discipline are still predominantly general, referring to entire works rather than specific parts of them. This article addresses the problem of the overus…
Can We Do Better? Replication and Online Appendices in Political Science
Replicability in political science is on the rise, as disciplinary journals have been placing a growing emphasis on data access and research transparency (DA–RT) practices and policies. As a result, nearly every article that is published today in leading political science journals offers an online appendix that includes data, code, and methodological explanations necessary for replication. While these developments are laudable, many appendices st…
Diaspora, Delegitimisation, and Foreign Policy: Unpacking Brazil’s Vote for the “Zionism is Racism” United Nations Resolution
This article analyses Brazil’s 1975 vote in favour of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. Historians and political scientists have investigated extensively the causes for this vote. However, all these analyses focus on Brazil’s relations with other state actors whilst ignoring the possibility that domestic factors, including Brazilian leaders’ attitudes towards Zionism, inf…
Diasporic assistance in authoritarian settings: Evidence from military Brazil
Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil
This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those years were using a discourse of Jewish disloyalty. This discourse depicted Jews who adopted a diasporic sta…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · History (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Diaspora (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works) · Politics (8 works)