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This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These statements echo monstrous antisemitic fabrications from the High Stalinist years and suggest that Jews in the former Soviet Union may still be vulnerable to the effects of old Soviet-style habits of historical manipulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SummaryThe correlation between climatic conditions and mite numbers in houses from rural areas was studied in 13 agricultural communities (kibbutzim and moshavim) in nine geo-climatic subregions of Israel. Mites were present in 97% of the dust samples. The average number of mites per gram of dust in the different localities ranged between 84 and 2053. The maximum number of mites (7440/g dust) was found in a carpet from a house in Geva Carmel in the northern coastal region. The most prevalent species of mites were Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farinae, which were found in 85.6% and 71.3% of the samples, respectively. The house dust mites D. pteronyssinus, D. farinae and Euroglyphus maynei constituted 94.8% of the mites. Most of the mites were isolated from the carpets and sofas (37.0% and 33.7%, respectively), and a smaller number from beds (29.3%). The smallest number of mites (≤ 250/g dust) were found at a minimum relative humidity (RH) of 30% and lower, with a maximum temperature of 32°C and higher, i.e. in the Jordan valley and Negev mountains. A greater number of mites (250–500/g dust) were found at a minimum ambient RH of 35–40% and a maximum temperature of 32°C and higher, i.e. the Hula valley. A large number of mites (500–1000/g dust) were found at a minimum RH of 35–40% with a maximum temperature of 30°C and lower, i.e. in the Judean and Samarian range, as well as in upper Galilee. The largest number of mites (1000–2000/g dust) was found at a minimum RH of 45% and higher, with a maximum temperature ranging between 30 and 32°C. These conditions occur in the coastal strip, the coastal plain and in the Judean and Samarian foothills. A monthly examination of two houses in Zova, a kibbutz in the Judean hills next to Jerusalem, and two houses from Palmachim, a kibbutz in the coastal region, revealed that the highest prevalence of mites was found in the months... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the territory that eventually became Canada, the early pattern of European settlement and economic development was largely shaped by staple trades and subsistence agriculture. Staple trades were heavily dependent upon foreign capital, technology, labor, and markets; subsistence farming rested upon European settlers, the family farm, and local markets. These two ingredients of the early pattern of Canada were found on Cape Breton Island in the nineteenth century. Cod fishing, coal mining, and mainly subsistence farming created much of the Island's settlement, economy, and society. Each of these economies occupied relatively discrete areas, forming a mosaic of different ways of life and work on the island. Woven through this pattern was a demographic cycle of primarily Scottish immigration, population growth, and emigration. These elements created a highly complex pattern, a regional human geography that is suggestive of other parts of nineteenth-century Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]