YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Awar

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 10, 2019July 10, 2019 History, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Award on the YIVO website on July 9, 2019.

Lauterpacht: The Victorian Tradition in International Law

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Books, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Lauterpacht: The Victorian Tradition in International Law by Martti Koskenniemi. European Journal of International Law, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 215–263.

Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children:

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 4, 2019July 4, 2019 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children: The accused include psychotherapists working for a social work association in Moncalieri, near Turin, and the mayor of Bibbiano by AFP on the Journal.ie website in June 27th 2019.

Italia President Guiseppe Conte Photo: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri. Public Domain via Wikmedia Commons.

Should We Love Our Country?

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 2, 2019July 2, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Should We Love Our Country? Fourth of July ruminations on the nation-state and the state of the nation By Paul Berman on the Tablet website on July 2, 2019.

July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C. 2008 Photo: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory”

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Books, History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory,” in Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson, eds., Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009), 179-192.

Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias

By Tamar SchwartzJune 26, 2019June 26, 2019 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias
Studies that find bias against women often get disproportionate attention by Lee Jussim Ph.D. on his Rabble Rouser blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 23, 2019.

Tales of the Jewish Working Class

By Tamar SchwartzJune 22, 2019June 22, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Tales of the Jewish Working Class: Crackup and Transformation of the Jewish Left: Second in a series on the anarchists and the Jews, civil war in the garment center By Paul Berman on the Tablet Website on June 12, 2019.