Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011: As gnificant exhibition at Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary arts center By Clare Hurley on the World Socialist Web Site on January 13, 2020.
Image: DOD. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Providence Lost by Paul Lay review – the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 3, 2020January 3, 2020 Books, History

Click Here to Read: History books: Providence Lost by Paul Lay review – the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate: A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history by Jessie Childs on World Socialist Web Site on January 1, 2020.

Found in Translation

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 31, 2019December 31, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Found in Translation: A Lithuanian cartoonist and translator travelled to New York to find missing sections of young Jews’ autobiographies, hidden in Vilnius during the Second World War By Tyler Foggatt in the New Yorker on December 23, 2019.
Image: Khaykl Lunski in the Strashun Library in Vilnius. Public Domain via Wikimedia COmmons

The Revolution and the Land: Peruvian documentary about agrarian reform in the 1960s and ’70s attracts great interest

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Revolution and the Land: Peruvian documentary about agrarian reform in the 1960s and ’70s attracts great interest By Armando Cruz and Cesar Uco on the World Socialist Web Site on December 23, 2019.

The shrink and the spiritual director

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 29, 2019December 29, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The shrink and the spiritual director: Freud and the Jesuits by Adam A.J. Deville on the America Magazine website on December 13, 2019. Sigmund Freud. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The 10 Biggest Archaeology Discoveries of 2019

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 27, 2019December 27, 2019 History

Click Here to Read: The 10 Biggest Archaeology Discoveries of 2019
By Owen Jarus on the Live Science website on December 26, 2019.

Entrance to the Luxor Temple in Egypt, Image: MusikAnimal. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Happy Hanukah: Cities of Ice: A dispatch from frozen Harbin, where Jews once flourished—and melted away

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 26, 2019December 26, 2019 Arts, History

Benjamin of Tudela HE route. Image: Itzuvit. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Cities of Ice: A dispatch from frozen Harbin, where Jews once flourished—and melted away By Dara Horn on the Tablet website on
April 19, 2019.