I Send My Child to Hebrew School

I Send My Child to Hebrew School by Rabbi Mendell Lewittes (1946) The first sixteen pages of the booklet promote the value of a Jewish education for children according to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. The last four pages are localized. There are three pages of merchant advertisements and one page “dedicated to our children in Bath who attend both Hebrew and Sunday Schools.”https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/jud_povich/1003/thumbnail.jp

Spiraling out of Control: Modern Architecture, the Emigration Decade, and the Filming of Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool

In 1936, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York commissioned the Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy to make a film, called The New Architecture of the London Zoo, about the now-iconic Penguin Pool (1934), with its spiraling concrete forms, and other zoo buildings designed by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin. Along with Moholy-Nagy, Lubetkin was part of a large community of Jewish émigré artists and architects living and working in interwar London. Lubetkin, ever argumentative, was apprehensive about the project, concerned that Moholy-Nagy’s overriding interest in “pure visual perception” would misguide the film. The finished product enraged the architect, and he responded abruptly and brusquely, that the film offered little reflection on the buildings or their historical and cultural contexts. The remark revealed the core of his concerns – architecture’s social principles. Although the penguins were cute, Lubetkin insisted his intention was always “to build socialistically,” and Moholy-Nagy’s film had missed the point. Through Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool and Moholy-Nagy’s film, this essay will offer some thoughts on 1930s England, abstract art, modern architecture, and the Jewish émigré, in order to understand why Lubetkin might have responded so abrasively, and to widen our understanding of the Penguin Pool

Alien Registration- Lewittes, Ethel D. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Lewittes, Ethel D. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Bounding the number of rational places using Weierstrass semigroups

Let Lambda be a numerical semigroup. Assume there exists an algebraic function field over GF(q) in one variable which possesses a rational place that has Lambda as its Weierstrass semigroup. We ask the question as to how many rational places such a function field can possibly have and we derive an upper bound in terms of the generators of Lambda and q. Our bound is an improvement to a bound by Lewittes which takes into account only the multiplicity of Lambda and q. From the new bound we derive significant improvements to Serre's upper bound in the cases q=2, 3 and 4. We finally show that Lewittes' bound has important implications to the theory of towers of function fields.Comment: 16 pages, 3 table

Vortices and Jacobian varieties

We investigate the geometry of the moduli space of N-vortices on line bundles over a closed Riemann surface of genus g > 1, in the little explored situation where 1 =< N < g. In the regime where the area of the surface is just large enough to accommodate N vortices (which we call the dissolving limit), we describe the relation between the geometry of the moduli space and the complex geometry of the Jacobian variety of the surface. For N = 1, we show that the metric on the moduli space converges to a natural Bergman metric on the Riemann surface. When N > 1, the vortex metric typically degenerates as the dissolving limit is approached, the degeneration occurring precisely on the critical locus of the Abel-Jacobi map at degree N. We describe consequences of this phenomenon from the point of view of multivortex dynamics.Comment: 36 pages, 2 figure