BECOMING WHAT WE SING: FORMATION THROUGH CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP MUSIC. By DavidLemley. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. viii + 262. Paperback, $26.99.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This biography tells the story of Mitka Kalinski, a Holocaust survivor who built a new life in America after the Second World War.Kalinski escaped death several times.In 1941, he ran away from a Jewish boarding school in the Ukraine right before Nazis ordered the slaughter of all Jews in the area.Later, Kalinski lived through a massacre near Kiev.Kalinksi also survived four concentration camps before being selected as a laborer when he was seven in 1942.Kalinski worked as a child slave throughout the rest of the war and for years afterward.He suffered serious abuse and never attended school.In 1949, fourteen-year-old Kalinski was transferred to a center for child refugees.At the time, Kalinski did not know who he was because he had no records of his parents or his birthplace.In 1950, Kalinski was sent abroad to start a new life in America.Kalinski never learned to read or write, and his illiteracy was a secret source of shame.Even so, his charisma, physical strength, and industriousness enabled him to find work and, later, support his own family.Kalinski suppressed memories for decades until he finally told his wife he was Jewish in 1981.This sparked a long quest to find his birth family.In 2001, Kalinski embraced his Jewish heritage by having a bar mitzvah, the Jewish ceremony of adulthood that he should have undergone at thirteen.In conclusion, Mitka's Secret could be more concise in places and could benefit from a map outlining Kalinski's early movements in Europe.However, it is a well-researched, clearly written biography about courage in the face of racial discrimination that all readers can appreciate.With the rise of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in contemporary times, Mitka's Secret is an especially important story.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.076 | 0.038 |
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".