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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ashkenazi"”.
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Gaucer Disease in the Ashkenazi-Jewish Community of South Africa
… is the high prevalence of the condition in the Ashkenazi-Jews. Fried, (1958), in a survey of cases in Jerusalem, estimated the minimal carrier or heterozygote rate to be 1 in 25. Other studies of Ashkenazi-Jews have revealed carrier frequencies ranging from 1 in 25 to about 1 in 40. This …
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Cultural Factors and Concepts of Pollution: Colorectal Cancer and Health Behaviors among Ashkenazi Jewish Women
The colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence in Ashkenazi Jews has been found to be highest of any ethnic group in the world (Feldman, 2001). It is currently unclear how culture and religion influence health behaviors of U.S. Ashkenazi Jews, as well as what other socio-cultural factors influence AJ …
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'The Saga of a Whole People': Louis Golding's Rendering of Ashkenazi Jewish Experience in the Doomington Novels 1920-1954
… who presented key aspects of twentieth-century Ashkenazi Jewish experience to a general as well as a Jewish popular readership. Furthermore, it argues that the ‘Doomington’ novels, produced between 1921 and 1954, reveal Golding’s personal and political commitment to a sympathetic rendering of …
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Inside/Outside/In-between: Understanding how Jewish Identity Impacts the Lives and Narratives of Ashkenazi Female Public School Educators
<p>Since Ashkenazi Jews in the United States are not a visible minority, it often becomes difficult to distinguish what/who is a Jew. As many Jewish females may appear to be of the dominant culture, they often get overlooked in discussions and courses on teacher education and …
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Gaucher Disease Protects Against Tuberculosis
… lysosomal diseases occur with high frequency in Ashkenazi Jews. It has been proposed that the underlying mutations confer a selective advantage, in particular conferring protection against tuberculosis. Here, using a zebrafish Gaucher disease model, I find that the mutation GBA1 N370S, …
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Psychological and Sociodemographic Predictors of Psychological Distress in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genetic Testing Participants within a Community Based Genetic Screening Program
… included family cancer history, education, age, Ashkenazi ethnicity, and Internality and Powerful Others Health Locus of Control. Vulnerable sub-groups of patients include younger women, women with higher levels of education and women of Ashkenazi ethnicity.
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… of some of the bestknown folksong styles among Ashkenazi Jews. Actual research was carried out over two years, mainly in Cape Town, with short visits abroad to the United Kingdom, and to Israel. The research procedure is based on Gerhard Kubik's 'integrated-study' approach. Accordingly, I …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… of some of the bestknown folksong styles among Ashkenazi Jews. Actual research was carried out over two years, mainly in Cape Town, with short visits abroad to the United Kingdom, and to Israel. The research procedure is based on Gerhard Kubik's 'integrated-study' approach. Accordingly, I …
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Genetic Counselors' Approaches to Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing For Hereditary Breast Cancer
… of breast cancer and a DTC-GT result for an Ashkenazi Jewish <em>BRCA1/2 </em>founder mutation, participants were more likely to recommend targeted testing (single-site or comprehensive <em>BRCA1/2 </em>analysis) (30/77, 39%, <em>p</em> < 0.01). In scenarios where probands had DTC-GT results …
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The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet: with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others.
… celebratory music of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who eventually populated the Pale of Settlement, which encompassed modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania. Due to the rise of oppression and expulsion, many klezmer musicians or klezmorim immigrated to the United …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
… and a stable point of reference for American Ashkenazi identities. A plethora of books, plays, films, and other cultural materials emphasize that, while Jews certainly belonged in the American middle class, their values were drawn from a different wellspring. There is growing scholarly …
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Factors Associated With Early Versus Late Development of Breast and Ovarian Cancer In Brca1 and Brca2 Positive Women
… with one other study that has been performed. Ashkenazi Jewish women with a BRCA1 mutation were more likely to be diagnosed age 50 or older than other ethnicities. Hispanic women with a BRCA2 mutation were more likely to be diagnosed prior to age 50 when compared to other ethnicities. No …
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Genomic changes in Fanconi anemia: implications for diagnosis, pathogenesis and prognosis
… mu- tation 65delG and one allele with the Ashkenazi founder mutation IVS4+4A>T, albeit without any known Ashkenazi ancestry. We also describe the first large deletion in FANCC. The newly detected alterations include two missense mu- tations (L423P and T529P) in the 3´-area of the FANCC …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… I address the marginalisation of Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jewish experiences, whose narratives disturb the 'Image' the State of Israel projects of itself. By exploring the psychogeographies of different individuals, the city emerges in Its multitude of histories and imaginations. My research …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… liturgical material is the qedushah liturgies in Ashkenazi Judaism and the Sanctus in three church traditions; (pre-1969) Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism (the Church of England) and Lutheranism (Martin Luther, and the Church of Sweden). As my focus is lived liturgy I investigate not just worship …
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A Comprehensive Genetic Risk Model for the Prediction of Future Prostate Cancer
… 3.84 (95% CI 2.84-5.18) at age≥65 years for non-Ashkenazi Jewish European ancestry BRCA2 carriers and 1.95 (95% CI 1.23-3.09) at age<65 years and 0.91 (95% CI 0.62-1.33) at age≥65 years for BRCA1 carriers. Using genotypic and family history data on 16,633 PCa patients, I developed a risk …
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Genome-Scale Genetics: Lessons from Founder Populations
<p>The potential benefits of using population isolates in genetic mapping due to reduced genetic and environmental heterogeneity are offset by the challenges posed by these populations for traditional association methods. Population isolates often contain large amounts of direct and cryptic …
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Construct Validation of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale for Ashkenazic Jews in the United States
… & Heppner, 2004) with Orthodox and non-Orthodox Ashkenazic (of European descent) American Jews. While Jewish-American biculturalism has been explored at length, there is a dearth of psychological research on Jewish-White biculturalism (Langman, 1999). Furthermore, the literature has yet to …