Bibliographic record
Abstract
2002). Leaving the Jewish Fold is his most recent publication.It is a study on radical assimilation in modern Jewish history, and the result of his many years of research into the phenomena.The publication is divided into eight chapters and covers, in great detail, over three hundred years of a varied and complex history.The work is of a synthetic nature, and employs a highly comparative approach.It provides the reader with a picture of modern conversion in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the West (France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States).The author deliberately omitted -in order to go into more detail in his work -such countries as Switzerland, Italy, the Scandinavian countries, and French and British enclaves outside Europe, such as Algeria, South Africa, and Australia.The analysis also excludes the Jewish communities in Canada and Latin America.The expression 'radical assimilation' is an umbrella term referring to various routes by which Judaism and the past were erased, lost or -as Endelman puts it -'buried'.It includes conversion, secession (an act of formal withdrawal from the community), mixed marriages, and other forms of losing contact with one's Jewish descent which was often seen as a burden.According to the author, the decisions about conversions were not linked to character 'fl aws' (cravenness, cowardice) that were more visible among some groups of Jews than others.They were rather -as he posits -"determined by how Jews viewed their present and future chances for success and happiness while remaining Jewish" (p. 7).For this reason, the author identifi es those cultural ideals, social structures, and political systems that allowed Jews to participate in social and civic life without having to conceal or jettison their ties to the Jewish community.It is vital that, although the American author refers to antisemitism, he changes the vector of questions and approaches this issue differently: he emphasizes its social reception, and not its character and the ways in which
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.008 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".