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A profile of Internet pioneer and unconventional businessman, Daniel Borislow, is presented. Borislow was one of the first people to recognise the power of the Internet as an advertising medium to promote his long-distance phone service Tel-Save.

Biography, Businessmen, Borislow, Daniel

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Questions of race

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The dominance of African-Americans within sport including basketball in 2000 mirrors the experiences of Jewish athletes in the 1920s and 1930s. Immigrant Jews were considered inferior, but basketball in Philadelphia, PA, offered them a chance.

Recreation, Race relations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Basketball, Jews, American, American Jews

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The child of a Jewish mother who fled Germany in 1938 and a Gentile father returned to Germany to study Hannah Arendt and reflects on the role her family's history has played in her interest in Arendt.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Criticism and interpretation, Arendt, Hannah

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