Il teatro Yiddish in America

Il contributo vuole tracciare una storia del teatro Yiddish e, in particolare, del suo sviluppo e della sua fortuna in America.Beside literature, Yiddish drama is the most outstanding part of Yiddish culture. Yiddish drama begins in Germany in 1711 with the publication of Mekirat Yosef (Sale of Joseph) by Baerman Limburg. A farce, Der Falsche Kaschtan by Saphir, follows in 1820 but only during the 1830s a first development of Yiddish Theatre is registered in Warsaw. The real Yiddish theatre, however, begins with Goldfaden who, about 1875, first established a permanent Yiddish theatre venue in Iasi, near Bucharest, Romania. After the Russian progroms and the beginning of the so-called “Third Diaspora”, the Yiddish theatre migrates to USA as well. Since then Yiddish theatre increased its activities reaching soon a prominent position in the New York showbiz. This essay is intended to provide an overview of such unique experience, from its very beginning to contemporary productions

THE PRODUCTION OF THE JOG SET 1501 (GROUND) CARTOGRAPHY FROM DB250 OF I.G.M.

L’Istituto Geografico Militare tra i propri compiti ha quello della formazione di cartografia alla scala 1:250.000, in particolare della serie Joint Operations Graphics 1501 (JOGGround). A partire dal primo impianto le procedure di allestimento delle varie edizioni hanno subito una progressiva evoluzione supportata anche da un consistente aggiornamento tecnologico. L’adozione di nuove specifiche tecniche internazionali (DMA MIL-J-89100), a partire dal 2004, ha radicalmente cambiato non solo le caratteristiche del prodotto cartografico ma anche e soprattutto il processo di produzione. La serie è oggi prodotta attraverso la formazione di un database cartografico, il DB250, con successive fasi di editing cartografico e vestizione grafica.Geographic Military Institute among its task has that of the 1:250.000 scale Joint Operations Graphics 1501 (JOG-Ground) production and maintenance. Beginning from the first edition, the JOG-G production workflow has had a progressive evolution also supported by a consistent technological upgrading. Since 2004 the application of DMA MIL-J-89100 specifications has radically changed not only the characteristics of the cartographic product but also all the production workflow. A spatial database, the DB250, is today used for the JOG-G production through following phases of symbolization, generalization and cartographic editing

Statuory Interpretation, Democratic Legitimacy and Legal-System Values

This Article reexamines the current debate and concludes that democratic legitimacy is not a sufficient litmus test by which to ex-plain the differences among competing interpretive models nor to compare their viability. I argue that broader meta-principles, which I term legal-system values, significantly influence current interpretive models and should be an integral focus of the statutory interpretation debate, but often are obscured by theorists\u27 emphasis on democratic legitimacy

Small Business Reorganization and the SABRE Proposals

Many bankruptcy experts suspect that the substantial costs and hurdles of reorganizing under chapter 11 are especially burdensome for small businesses and may significantly impair small businesses\u27 ability to reorganize and survive. It should not be surprising, then, that bankruptcy practitioners, scholars, and judges agonize over the treatment of small businesses in reorganization; conferences are organized to consider the particular problems of financially distressed small businesses; Congress singled out small businesses for attention in the 1994 Bankruptcy Code amendments; and the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended reforms applicable to small business reorganization cases. Much of the debate concerning the treatment of small businesses in bankruptcy swirls around the decision embraced by the drafters of the 1978 Bankruptcy Code to unite diverse business relief chapters into the current chapter 11. As a consequence of this one-size-fits-all approach, small, closely-held businesses face the same complicated reorganization processes as large, publicly held businesses. Although few would openly advocate a return to the type of strategic behavior that characterized the superceded Bankruptcy Act\u27s segregation of corporate reorganizations and arrangements under former chapters X and XI, many would advocate reforms that modify the one-size-fits-all treatment of small businesses. Reform proposals range from (i) doing nothing and allowing chapter 11\u27s elegant flexibility to accommodate the needs of small businesses in reorganization, (ii) encouraging bankruptcy courts to accommodate small business cases through specialized case management procedures, and amend the Bankruptcy Rules and Bankruptcy Code in minor ways if necessary to facilitate these procedures, (iii) creating a separate reorganization chapter for small businesses, or otherwise amending the Bankruptcy Code in significant ways to make chapter 11 easier for small businesses, and (iv) amending the Bankruptcy Code to make chapter 11 harder for small businesses in order to force the liquidation of businesses that are not viable

State Sovereign Immunity and the Bankruptcy Code (Part Two)

This article is the second of a two-part series in which Professor Gebbia-Pinetti considers how the complexities of state sovereign immunity apply to bankruptcy actions. The first article laid the foundation by analyzing the source, scope, and nature of states\u27 immunity from suits filed in federal, court to enforce state and federal law (Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, September/October 1998). The present article considers the extent to which the bankruptcy estate may enforce Bankruptcy Code actions against the states, notwithstanding state sovereign immunity

State Sovereign Immunity and the Bankruptcy Code (Part One)

This article is the first of a two-part series in which Professor Gebbia-Pinetti considers how the complexities of state sovereign immunity apply to bankruptcy actions. The present article lays the foundation by analyzing the source, scope, and nature of states\u27 immunity from suits filed in federal court to enforce state and federal law. This includes a discussion of traditional sovereign immunity, Eleventh Amendment immunity, abrogation of immunity, and the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Seminole Tribe v. Florida. The second article will consider the extent to which the bankruptcy estate may enforce Bankruptcy Code actions against the states, notwithstanding state sovereign immunity. (Forthcoming, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, November/December 1998)

Statuory Interpretation, Democratic Legitimacy and Legal-System Values

This Article reexamines the current debate and concludes that democratic legitimacy is not a sufficient litmus test by which to ex-plain the differences among competing interpretive models nor to compare their viability. I argue that broader meta-principles, which I term legal-system values, significantly influence current interpretive models and should be an integral focus of the statutory interpretation debate, but often are obscured by theorists\u27 emphasis on democratic legitimacy

A flexible readout board for HEP experiments

This thesis will present my contributions to the development of the PiLUP board along with a general overview of its features and capabilities. The PiLUP board is a general-purpose FPGA-based readout board for data acquisition systems under development by the University of Bologna and the Instituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and intended for high energy physics experiments, where the sheer amount of data generated by detectors often requires custom hardware solutions. This board was initially proposed for the next upgrade of the ATLAS Pixel detector. In this context its purpose would be to interface the Front-End readout chip RD53A with the FELIX card and provide advanced testing features such as an emulator for the RD53A that will help the development of the other parts of the data acquisition chain. Nonetheless, since the early stages of development, the hardware has been designed to offer great flexibility so that the same hardware platform could be directly used in other applications. To this purpose an important feature of the board is the great extendibility offered by the presence of different interfaces, such as and 3 FMC connectors (two low density and one high density), a PCI Express x8 interface, gigabit ethernet and an integrated SFP connector. The computing power of the PiLUP is provided by of two FPGAs, a Zynq-7 SoC and a Kintex-7 produced by Xilinx, intended to be used in master-slave configuration. In this case the Zynq, with its dual-core ARM processor and the possibility to run an embedded linux distribution, would be used as main interface with the other functionalities in the board. The main objective of this thesis is the development of such software and firmware control infrastructure, starting from the firmware solutions for the inter-FPGA communication to the low-level software to control the system

Debt and Crime: Inevitable Bedfellows

Criminal law and bankruptcy law approach fraud with a variety of objectives, only some of which overlap. Each contains elements of both restorative and distributive justice—the notion that the fraudster should be held accountable, the injured should be compensated, and distribution should be fair. Yet, criminal law and bankruptcy law inculcate these goals with profoundly different understandings, histories, contexts and practices. Consequently, the long arm of the law and the strong arm of the trustee have uniquely honed tools, unavailable to the other, for achieving their purposes. Inevitably, then, tension arises when criminal law and bankruptcy law simultaneously attempt to gather and distribute property garnered through fraud. Cite as 42 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 525 (2012)

State Sovereign Immunity and the Bankruptcy Code (Part Two)

This article is the second of a two-part series in which Professor Gebbia-Pinetti considers how the complexities of state sovereign immunity apply to bankruptcy actions. The first article laid the foundation by analyzing the source, scope, and nature of states\u27 immunity from suits filed in federal, court to enforce state and federal law (Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, September/October 1998). The present article considers the extent to which the bankruptcy estate may enforce Bankruptcy Code actions against the states, notwithstanding state sovereign immunity