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Category Archives: Germany
Decoding Germans & Jews (8-9-23)
01:00 Different groups have different interests sometimes03:00 It’s racist to force people to return to the work20:00 German and Jews (2016), https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/germans_and_jews22:00 Germans and Jews, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5718290/35:00 Can you have too much Holocaust education?
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
Beyond The Academic Ethic
Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading
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Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich (6-21-21)
00:00 Cultural historian William Grange 01:00 Alexander Technique 03:00 My 2007 interview with William Grange 07:00 Aging and cognitive power 09:30 Writers block 12:00 American identity 15:00 African-American identity 20:00 The civil rights revolution 22:00 American theater and American identity … Continue reading
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The German Historicist Tradition
Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by Frederic Beiser: * …, historicism undermined the perennial search in Western philosophy to find transcendent justifications for social, political and moral values, i.e., the endeavor to give these values some universal … Continue reading
Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer’s Program of Torah u-Madda
Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2000: Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was, together with Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the pioneer of Torah im Derekh Erez in modern times. Although each of them understood this concept differently, with Hildesheimer advocating Orthodox Wissenschaft … Continue reading
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Torah im Derekh Ereẓ in the Shadow of Hitler
Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2006: With the coming to power of the Nazi regime, and the governmental determination to remove Jews from all aspects of German culture and public life, Torah im Derekh Erez took another hit. Here was … Continue reading
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Germany Confronts The Enemy Within
There are 16 references to the far-right and six to neo-nazis in this article but no definitions are offered. Katrin Bennhold writes for the New York Times: Germany has a problem. For years, politicians and security chiefs rejected the notion … Continue reading
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Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by professor Robert Gellately: * Hitler said of the NSDAP in the 1920s that “90 ninety percent of it was made up by left-wing people.” He also thought it was “decisive” that … Continue reading
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What Turned Germans Into Nazis?
Andrew Stuttaford writes for the WSJ: Mr. Fritzsche examines how, during the party’s years in opposition, the Nazis were able to broaden their support away from the original ideological core to voters who, for example, just thought that “something” had … Continue reading