Korman tells a suspenseful story of scientific experimentation and legal struggle in creating a portrait of an eminent American whose eccentricity anticipates the new economy pioneers of today
for showing us what a place of wonders is the world and the hearts that dwell in it
Kuhn argues that the recycling of these set-pieces encouraged audiences to process new cultural sites through the lens of old performance tropes
A beautiful tale about identity
local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism
Circumventing the Law David Sinden Korman tells a suspenseful storyCircumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of haaramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice blemished