CAS seeking students to nominate from UMN who are interested in doing academic research abroad in the technical sciences.

$4,000 in funding to support studies in Austria or Central Europe to an undergraduate senior, or a graduate student in the humanities or social sciences.

Founded in Vienna in 1909, the “Hakoah Sports Club” (Hakoah in Hebrew means strength) was the largest and best-known Jewish all-round sports club of the interwar period. Its foundation signalled the rise of a growing national Jewish assertiveness, a Zionist politicization of sporting activities, and a reaction to the socially accepted antisemitism of the early 20th century. In its heyday after the First World War, Hakoah had several thousand members and the original range of sports—the founding statutes initially mentioned the “physical elevation of the Jewish people [...] through the pursuit of football, track and field as well as heavy athletics, and winter and water sports”—was broadened significantly during that period; tourism, skiing, handball, chess, a Hakoah orchestra, and a dancing section were added.

Book review of Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundation of Science, by Karl Sigmund. The Economist (January 13th 2018)