Category Archives: Jews

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

Here are some excerpts from this 2017 book by Christopher Clark: * The Prussian government continued to discriminate against Jewish applicants to public office. Jews found it extremely difficult to achieve promotion into the upper ranks of the judiciary, for … Continue reading

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Rabbis & Rapists: A New Novel Exposes California Judaism

When Orthodox Judaism sends its people to oversee conversion programs, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing … Continue reading

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The Jewish Angle To Rony Guldman’s Story

In his work in progress, A Critical Theory of Academia, Rony Guldmann writes: * Barbara [Fried] had remarked to someone in the faculty lounge at the outset of our December 2008 meeting (with Joe) that here was a meeting of … Continue reading

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Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

Jerry Z. Muller writes in this new book: * The German-speaking Jews of Germany and of the Habsburg Empire often referred to the Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe and Russia as Ostjuden—“Eastern Jews.” The distinction was not only one of … Continue reading

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I Really Thought I Could Change The World With My Little Songs (4-29-22)

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