Boccaccio’s The Decameron

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 30, 2020March 30, 2020 History, Literature, Science

Click Here to Read: Boccaccio’s The Decameron on the Middle Ages.net website.
Boccaccio’s ‘The plague of Florence in 1348. This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Chabad vs. Reform

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Chabad vs. Reform: A documentary about a Montana Lubavitcher raises the question of how best to do outreach by Sara Trapler Spielman on the Tablet website on March 23, 2020.

The Life of a Court Jew

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Life of a Court Jew: Glikl of Hameln’s writings say much about Jewish commercial families in Central and Western Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries by Ntalie Zemon Davis on March 23, 2020.
Pharaoh and the Midwives, miniature on vellum from the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia, early 14th century, at the British Library, London/ Image: illustrator of the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Builders: How a community of Holocaust survivors climbed from the ashes of Europe to the White House, and at what price

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2020March 24, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Builders: How a community of Holocaust survivors climbed from the ashes of Europe to the White House, and at what price by Joshua Chaffin on the Tablet website on March 23, 2020.
President Donald Trump talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Friday, March 17, 2017, in the outer Oval Office, joined by Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Who was Sigmund Freud?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 21, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Who was Sigmund Freud? The true story behind new Netflix drama series, Freud. More than just a Freudian slip By Emma Bullimore on the Radio Times website on March 20, 2020.

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue: Documentary about war crimes and historical revisionism in Japan By Isabel Roy on the World Socialist Web Site on March 20, 2020.

Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 19, 2020March 19, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies: The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs bu Steven Rosenfeld on the Common Dreams website on August 9, 2019.