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Category Archives: Jews
The price of checking your ‘white privilege’ may be high
Jonathan Tobin writes: “American Jews have elevated social justice above every other aspect of Jewish life. However, they have forgotten that justice is impossible without the rule of law. Checking their privilege in this manner is itself an example of … Continue reading
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
Steve Sailer: Will Black Anti-Semitism Once Again Short-Circuit the Latest Peak Black Moment?
Sailer writes: Black people periodically go through boom eras when white people can’t seem to get enough of them, such as in the late 1960s and then in the late 1980s-early 1990s. But blacks then overplay their hand and step … Continue reading
Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Here are some highlights from this 1994 book: * In Germany, for example, Jews went from being called and calling themselves Jews in the eighteenth century, to Israelites in the nineteenth, to German Citizens of the Mosaic Faith into the … Continue reading
Kosher stores, synagogues, vandalized and looted in ongoing LA protests
From the Jerusalem Post: A number of kosher stores and synagogues were vandalized and looted in the uptown Los Angeles neighborhood of Fairfax, between Saturday night and Sunday morning, by people protesting police brutality following the killing last week of … Continue reading
Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought by David Myers
I mentioned the book last night on my show but perhaps my choice of music for the segment was not the most artful. According to Princeton University Press: Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new … Continue reading
Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (2008)
Here are some highlights from this 2008 book: * The theory of evolution has provided a profound intellectual challenge to religion over the past century and a half. Yet most studies of the impact and significance of evolution for religion … Continue reading
Jews, Nationalism & Hypocrisy
Forward: America’s Jewish institutions were failing. Coronavirus hastened their demise.
Joel Swanson writes: I’m talking about Jewish establishment organizations like the Jewish Federation, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish community centers, lobbying groups like the American Jewish Committee and American Jewish Congress, and explicitly political groups … Continue reading
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Here are some excerpts from this 2020 book: * “[Salo] Baron was quite right in saying that until Emancipation Jews survived because of their national religion. Not that there was first a people and then a religion, but that both … Continue reading