Virginia and the Woolf

Click Here to Read:   Virginia and the Woolf: A drive across Hitler’s Germany and Austria in May 1935 made Leonard Woolf’s Jewishness real by Jonathan Wilson on the Tablet Website on May 14, 2020.
Engagement photograph, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912, a month before their wedding. Photograph taken at Dalingridge Place, the Sussex home of Virginia’s half-brother, George DuckworthPublic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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.

How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him

Click Here to Read: How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him Journal of a Plague: When it comes to disease, sometimes the enemy has to be at the gates, or even inside them, before the Behavioral Immune System will start to mount a defense by Norman Doidge on the Tablet website on April 24, 2020.
Map of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in Italy as of March 5, 2020. Image: Night Lantern.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.