Richard L Mendelsohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Mendelsohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendelsohn |
| SIGNATURE | MENDELSOHN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Response to the Review Article
Given that she devotes little more than a sentence or two in an article of fourteen pages to commenting on our recently published The Jews in South Africa. An Illustrated History, Claudia Braude's
Constructing a Usable Past: History, Memory and South African Jewry in an Age of Anxiety
Three seminal studies published between 1930 and 1955 played a critical role in defining a received version of South African Jewish history. All three helped towards a self—definition of a community looking for a usable and respectable past in an age of anxiety and vulnerability. Shaped in significant measure by these texts, a collective memory emerged which incorporated a questionable understanding of the community's origins, development and cha…
The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies Frege's technique to the central notions of predication, identity, existence and truth. Of particular interest is the analysis of the Paradox of Identity and a discussion of three solutions: the little-…
Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years
(2004). Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 235-246
Film and History Studies in South Africa Revisited: Representing the African Past on Screen
First-Order Modal Logic
Sammy Marks: The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal
Blainey and the Jameson Raid: The Debate Renewed
It is ironic that the most suggestive and influential contribution of the past decade to the historiography of the late nineteenth century Transvaal has been that of an Australian filibuster who made a lightning sortie into the territory and then retreated into silence. Geoffrey Blainey, author of a series of books on Australian mining history, wrote a lone article on the Jameson Raid,' which ended the long-standing preoccupation with the degree …
Blainey and the Jameson Raid: The Debate Renewed
It is ironic that the most suggestive and influential contribution of the past decade to the historiography of the late nineteenth century Transvaal has been that of an Australian filibuster who made a lightning sortie into the territory and then retreated into silence. Geoffrey Blainey, author of a series of books on Australian mining history, wrote a lone article on the Jameson Raid,' which ended the long-standing preoccupation with the degree …
Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years
(2004). Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 235-246
Film and History Studies in South Africa Revisited: Representing the African Past on Screen
Blainey and the Jameson Raid: The Debate Renewed
It is ironic that the most suggestive and influential contribution of the past decade to the historiography of the late nineteenth century Transvaal has been that of an Australian filibuster who made a lightning sortie into the territory and then retreated into silence. Geoffrey Blainey, author of a series of books on Australian mining history, wrote a lone article on the Jameson Raid,' which ended the long-standing preoccupation with the degree …
Sammy Marks: The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal
First-Order Modal Logic
Film and History Studies in South Africa Revisited: Representing the African Past on Screen
Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years
(2004). Testing Cosmopolitan Tolerance: Port Jews in Cape Town during the Late Victorian and Edwardian Years. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 235-246
The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies Frege's technique to the central notions of predication, identity, existence and truth. Of particular interest is the analysis of the Paradox of Identity and a discussion of three solutions: the little-…
Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
Constructing a Usable Past: History, Memory and South African Jewry in an Age of Anxiety
Three seminal studies published between 1930 and 1955 played a critical role in defining a received version of South African Jewish history. All three helped towards a self—definition of a community looking for a usable and respectable past in an age of anxiety and vulnerability. Shaped in significant measure by these texts, a collective memory emerged which incorporated a questionable understanding of the community's origins, development and cha…
Response to the Review Article
Given that she devotes little more than a sentence or two in an article of fourteen pages to commenting on our recently published The Jews in South Africa. An Illustrated History, Claudia Braude's
History (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)