For Armistice Day: The solider behind ‘In Flanders Fields

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 11, 2018November 11, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The solider behind ‘In Flanders Fields’ CBC News: The National on November 10, 2015 on YouTube.

The Influence of Anti-Semitism on United States Immigration Policy With respect to German Jews During 1933-1939

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 4, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Influence of Anti-Semitism on United States Immigration Policy With respect to German Jews During 1933-1939 by Barbara L. Bailin 2011 Master’s Theses City College of New York.

Jewish refugees look out through portholes of a ship while docked in the port of Haifa. Date: Circa 1950 – 1959. See cataloguing notes on this image at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is not the MS St. Louis

The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2018 Film, History

Click Here to Read: The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz—An early Stalinist frame-up on film and the Nuremberg tribunal against the Nazis By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on October 16, 2018.

Benjamin Ferencz – Chief Prosecutor in 1947 Einsatzgruppen Trial – In Courtroom 600 Where Nuremberg Trials Were Held – Palace of Justice – Nuremberg-Nurnberg – Germany. Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D.. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2018October 23, 2018 History

Click Here to Read: The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting: What the astonishing Chiune Sugihara teaches us about moral heroism by By David Wolpe in The New York Times on October 15, 2018.

Chiune Sugihara. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 11, 2018October 11, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shul Magid, on Eliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of the Philosopher’s Shadow : Heidegger, Nazism and the Jewish Other on the Marginalia website on September 28, 2018.

Martin Heidegger Photo by Willy Pragher (1908–1992). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

An Iconographic Treasure Unearthed in Jordan

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2018 History

Click Here to Read: An Iconographic Treasure Unearthed in Jordan by Philippe Testard-Vaillant on the Real Clear Science website on September 21, 2018.

Jordan, Amman, Ruins of the temple of Hercules. Photo: Berthold Werner. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

My Great-Grandfather the Bundist

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: My Great-Grandfather the Bundist by Molly Crabapple on the New York Review of Books Daily website on October 6, 2018.

An elections poster of the w:General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev, 1918. Heading: “Where we live, there is our country!” Inside frame: “Vote List 9, Bund”. Bottom: “A democratic republic! Full national and political rights for Jews!” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.