But if the national library claims the legacy of Kafka for the Jewish state, it, and institutions like it in Israel, can lay claim to practically any pre-Holocaust synagogue, artwork, manuscript or valuable ritual object extant in Europe.
throw overboard "irrational" institutions like private property and the.
Young conservatives I interviewed, for example, are inclined to think that the last great Ottoman sultan, Abdulhamid, was harshly treated by Young Turks and that Turkey would be better off had it kept its royal institutions, like in Britain.
The most radical aspect of post-internet art isn't that it infiltrates old-media institutions like books and galleries; it's that, as it does so, it continues to proliferate online like Tribbles on Star Trek.
And how much it needs protective institutions, like independent courts and just laws, in which to flourish.
In other words, they are arguing that when it comes to institutions like, say, Citigroup, the government can, in fact, let them implode — which means, in practical terms, allow their creditors to be wiped out — without any disastrous effects.
It sells to institutions like schools and nursing homes and to other companies, like Kellogg's, which turns the butter or paste into products like peanut-butter-filled crackers.
This question came to my mind as I sat in my Jerusalem office this week and read the new directives published by the European Union that prohibit it from financing institutions, like research and nonprofit groups, in academia, culture, science and sport, in Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.
It meant neutering institutions like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Legal Aid and even putting universities and colleges on the defensive, making them fearful that they could lose funding if their faculty and student bodies appeared too progressive.
Professor Schama, the Columbia historian, said it was important that institutions like Columbia and its partners be on the Internet.
