Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
Thirty years ago, the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London (UCL) hosted an international conference in memory of its former director, Joseph G. Weiss, who had been an important scholar of Hasidism – the Jewish religious movement that began in Poland in the eighteenth century and quickly came to dominate significant segments of …
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I appeared on Matt Binder’s podcast DOOMED last night. Here’s the appearance plus another hour or so of content from him. Worth subscribing and watching often. I’ll be back in a week or two with this term’s research paper (finally). live now with @thamesdarwin discussing holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists. tune in: https://t.co/wVqBrTGmod — Matt …
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It turns out I haven’t done nearly as much writing this term for my Readings in Modern Jewish History course. Below is only the second writing assignment for this term and might be the last before I submit my term paper. That paper is due in the first week of May. In the meantime, I’ll …
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Short on cash this term to take another course at Edinburgh, I decided to enroll in the University of Pennsylvania’s extension program and take a grad-level course in Jewish History. Unsurprisingly, it’s pretty rigorous so far. It’s very reading heavy, as the title would suggest. Plus, as a term paper, it’ll be necessary to write …
Here’s an interview I did a few weeks ago on the historic.ly podcast, covering a lot of topics all either directly or indirectly related to fascism. Enjoy. Share. Etc.
Few words in history or political science have had definitions as intensely debated as fascism. An enormous volume of ink has been spilled attempting to define the term since 1945, with a consensus remaining elusive beyond general agreement about ultranationalism and anti-Marxism. The controversy only increases when attempting to subcategorize the field: one such subcategory, …
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I’m going to finish this series on Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the murder on 30 November 1941 of thousands of Latvian Jews, plus a thousand Reich Jews who had just arrived in Riga, by making a few general observations. Before that, however, a couple of confessions. First, I’m not an historian, although I do have …
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Having addressed Mattogno’s butchering of the Keine Liquidierung phone note and ignorance of points like basic meteorology, geography, and arithmetic, we move in this post to discussing how Mattogno addresses the aftermath of the shooting of a thousand Reich Jews in Riga on 30 November 1941. The “orthodox” history has it that, Lange having lodged a complaint about this …
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Picking up where I left off in my last post, Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the mass shooting of Latvian Jews, as well as a thousand newly arrived Reich Jews, on 30 November 1941 is riddled with errors and lapses in logic. After briefly remarking on the discrepancy between the actual date of the shooting and the …
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With my blogmates already having responded to parts of Carlo Mattogno’s magnum opus on the Einsatzgruppen, I decided to have a look at the ten pages Mattogno dedicates to the killings in the fall of 1941 in Riga – a topic I’ve had occasion to look at very closely over the last couple of years. I put together …
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Inevitable Historicity