Click Here to Read: Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on May 1, 2020.
Category: History
‘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.
COVID-19, Haredi Jewry, and ‘Magical’ Thinking
Click Here to Read: COVID-19, Haredi Jewry, and ‘Magical’ Thinking: During quarantine, we judge the ultra-Orthodox for practicing what other Jews preach by Shaul Magid on the Tablet website on April 30, 2020.
Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi (Haredim in the plural). Image: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Dr. Feigenbaum, 49, Psychiatrist, Dead
Click Here to Read: This Page on the Times Machine.
January 3, 1937.
PSYCHIATRIST, DEAD; Freud Pupil Editor-in-Chief and One of Founders of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. SPECIALIST ON PARANOIA Former Medical Director of the Help Mental Diseases Hospital in Palestine. Dr. Dorian Feigenbaum, psychoanalyst and a founder and editorin-chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, died early yesterday at his home, 885 Park Avenue, of pneumonia. He was 49 years old. Dr. Feigenbaum, a specialist on paranoia, came to this country in 1924 after having practiced in Austria, Switzerland and Palestine
Polio’s Jewish History
Click Here to Read: Polio’s Jewish History: How a community was affected by the epidemic—and by the scientists who discovered the vaccine by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet website on April 29, 2020.
Vaccination Record – description – Hebrew, Arabic and English Image: Bolter21. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
