Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper traces the development of the Bene Israel family from Maharashtra in transnational context between the motherland India, and the fatherland, Israel, where the majority resides. The Bene Israel are unusual in that they are a group of Indian Jews, adhering to a monotheistic religion, yet culturally akin to Indians of other faiths. The article focuses upon family structure and residency in the wake of migration and Westernization. It is based upon a re-examination of census data collected among the Bene Israel Indian Jews residing in the town of Lod in Israel, and a fresh look at the Bene Israel family today. The paper analyzes the rate of joint family living in India and the deviance from it in practice due to developmental and other factors. Then it describes the Indian Jewish family structure in Israel during the 1970s and shows that 20 percent more families were living in nuclear units. Despite the decline in joint residency, the joint family continued to exist in novel manner, including “proximal housing”. Today, modern technology serves to unite once disparate members of joint families within Israel, and transnationally between India and Israel.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".