Click Here to Read: A Jewish Doctor Examines the Black Death: Abraham Caslari, 14th-century medical witness from Catalonia by Susan L. Einbinder on the Tablet Website on May 5, 2020.
The citizens of Toumai bury their dead during the black death. Miniature from manuscript, Belgium, 14th century”. Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv – en:Beit Hatefutsot. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: History
Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe
Freud, the Law, and Michelangelo’s Moses by Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.
Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism
‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now
Click Here to Read: The Storied History of Yiddish Publishing: The Influential Publishers and Formidable Editors Who Brought Yiddish Books to the World by Zachary M. Baker PublishedWinter 2016 / 5777 Part of issue number 74 of the Pakn Treger Magazine of the Yiddish Book Center.
First and last pages of ABC book in Yiddish for Jewish primary schools in Poland. Warsaw, 1958. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Do civilisations collapse?
Click Here to Read: Do civilisations collapse? The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology by Guy D Middleton on the Aeon website.
Ahu Tongariki, the largest platform and collection of Moai ever erected on Rapa Nui (Eastern Island). Image: Bradenfox. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
