Click Here to Read: What a 1904 War Can Teach Vladimir Putin: The Russo-Japanese War led not just to an immediate revolution, but to deeper and longer-lasting change years later By David Gioe on the Atlantic website on June 23, 2022.
The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music
Click Here to Read: Yiddish Folk Song in Classical Music: Since before the 18th century, Jewish folk melodies have had a rich, unexpected influence on musical composition by Alex Weiser on the Tablet website on June 24, 2022.
A photograph of Joel Engel, Russian composer and ethnomusicologist, with an Edison phonograph used in recording Jewish folk songs. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons,
The second amendment of the US Constitution by Henry Kaminer
Here’s what really happened on Juneteenth
Click Here to Read: Here’s what really happened on Juneteenth: And here’s why it’s time for supremacists and their sympathizers to surrender by Robin Washington on the Forward website on June 13, 2022. This is an updated version of a column originally published on June 18, 2021.
Image: Galveston Daily News, June 21, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger announces “all slaves are free” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Leopold Bloom, Good for the Jews?
Bisexuality was the Bloomsbury norm
Click Here to Read: Bisexuality was the Bloomsbury norm: Many of the younger Bloomsberries continued the group’s tradition of living in squares and loving in triangles, according to Nino Strachey From The Spectator magazine issue: 11 June 2022.
Julia Strachey per Dora Carrington Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich
Click Here to Read: How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich: X Troop played a crucial role in the D-Day landings and killed, captured and interrogated their way across occupied Europe all the way into the heart of the Third Reich By Leah Garrett on the Forward website on June 6, 2022.
Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945. Image: :Dna-Dennis Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
