Click Here to Read: He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic: The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention By Nina Siegal in the New York Times on December 18, 2023.
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Click Here to Read: Ugly rise in antisemitism after Hamas attack on Israel has deep roots in American history. The antisemitism story of 2023 isn’t about freedom of speech or academic freedom; it’s about meanness and divisiveness, flames fanned by the cruelty of social media by Dr. Marc Siegel on the USA weekly website on December 18, 2023.
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Click Here to Read: What declassified Cold-War spy photos tell us about ancient Rome: The images challenge ideas about the Empire’s eastern frontier, based off earlier data collected from a biplane bu Tom Metcalfe in National Geoghaphic on October 25, 2023.
Qasr Bshir in Jordan. Image:Schreckgespenst Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire: Look for it soon on Duolingo.
BY Darren Orf on the Popular Mechanics website on September 26, 2023.
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Click Here to Read: My Father, the Blacklist and ‘High Noon’: For filmmaker Carl Foreman, resisting McCarthyism was a patriotic duty, even if it meant the end of his career in the U.S. By Amanda Foreman in The Wall Street Journal on September 15, 2023.
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Click Here to Read: Sophie Freud, Critic of Her Grandfather’s Gospel, Dies at 97: Sigmund Freud’s last surviving grandchild, she fled the Nazis in Vienna, became a professor in America and argued that psychoanalysis was a “narcissistic indulgence.” By Sam Roberts in The New York Times on June 3, 2022
Photograph of the family of Sigmund Freud. Front row: Sophie, Anna and Ernst Freud. Middle row: Oliver and Martha Freud, Minna Bernays. Back row: Martin and Sigmund Freud. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
