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CitizenWald

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Cultural historian of modern Europe, Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Allied faculty, UMass Public History

Revolutionary era, World Wars, Nazism, antisemitism.
Book history, German literature, material culture, historic preservation.

Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
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• Past posts
-Chair of Board, Massachusetts Center for the Book
-Treasurer, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing
-Chair, Amherst Historical Commission
-Amherst Select Board

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ICYMI + updated meeting info:

Wednesday, May 15, 6 pm Eastern online:

Unseen New England: Re-envisioning Black Presence in Early American Art [05/15/24]

https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/unseen-new-england-re-envisioning-black-presence-in-early-american-art#:~:text=This%20talk%20by%20Emelie%20Gevalt,Rhode%20Island%3B%20a%20suite%20of

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beautiful bit of book history:

florid poem by Col. J. J. von Scheler in honor of the 54th birthday [when you're an enlightened despit, it doesn't have to be a round number] of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg
Small folio from the presses of Court Printer Christoph Friedrich Cotta the elder, Stuttgart


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Among the beauties of traditional printing, as book historians know, are the distinctive character and robust materiality.
Note here, the tactile quality of the rag paper (photo 1), the deep impression of type and ornament (2) and the way the border is assembled from individual ornamental pieces (3)

@dbellingradt may appreciate this


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impression of title letters and title page ornament showing through on second page
small barely perceptible breaks in the ornamental border show how it was assembled from individual pieces of type

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Historian here.

This sort of thing--increasingly common--is not helpful to your cause. The more so as we mark V-E Day and the defeat of .

Jewish students had put forward a motion stating that they deserved full rights in the ANU--and supporting a two-state solution

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student in hoodie puts index finger below nose to imitate Hitler's mustache
student saying Hamas deserves our unconditional support
student refusing to condemn Hamas, and saying support for it must be unconditional

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Universities are closing their herbariums to save money, but they could be foreclosing our future.

amazingly shortsighted policy, typical of admin bean counters (no pun intended)

"3 in 4 species yet to be described are likely at risk of extinction. Moreover, 45 percent of all flowering plants are likely at risk of extinction"

Only thanks to a 500-year old herbarium "do we know what the first European-grown tomatoes... looked like & what their genetic makeup was"

https://wapo.st/3TK4NaO

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18 March 1871: French government attempts to seize weapons in Paris that could be used against German occupiers: workers and soldiers resist, beginning conflict that gave birth to the Paris Commune

https://marxists.org/glossary/orgs/p/a.htm

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris

Bronze medal commemorating the democratic elections of February

bronze medal (reverse) celebrating the elections under the new republic in 1871 (reverse): Hercules with hand on altar of democracy (LiBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE), above it the tablets representing the Rights of Man with the level of equality and the date 8 February Text around edge: ELECTIONS REPUBLICAINES CONSTITUTIONNELLES at bottom: 1871

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Well, this response to our new of is certainly welcome

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CHOICE The Top 75 Community College Titles: February 2024 CATEGORIES The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges REFERENCE The Routledge history of antisemitism, ed. by Mark Weitzman, Robert J. Williams, and James Wald Routledge, 2023. 458p bibl index ISBN 9781138369443, $216.00; ISBN 9780429428616 ebook, » 2016choice-pick $56.95; 61-1519
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    A tale of two women writers' houses:

    As the Emily Dickinson Museum, having magnificently restored the "Homestead," now reopens "The Evergreens" after infrastructure work

    https://www.gazettenet.com/Another-peek-at-the-poet-s-world-Emily-Dickinson-Museum-reopens-The-Evergreens-closed-for-preservation-work-the--five-years-54180174

    Archaeologists discover Anne Bradstreet's home

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-anne-bradstreet-groundbreaking-research-into-the-poets-home-tickets-851911288597?keep_tld=1

    (h/t @EmersonWBaker )

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    Today I was teaching Beyond Martyrdom by Brian Porter-Szűcs.

    Today he presents a hybrid lecture on the topic at 5 p.m. Eastern:

    Poland Beyond Martyrdom? New Approaches in Polish History | H-Net

    https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20024856/poland-beyond-martyrdom-new-approaches-polish-history

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    Pleased to say I will on Monday be teaching @MagdaTeter chapter on the and (sadly!) contemporary persistence of the ritual murder myth from our new Routledge History of , in which she distills she essence of her masterful and justifiably acclaimed definitive book on the subject.

    https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-History-of-Antisemitism/Weitzman-Williams-Wald/p/book/9781138369443

    Here, a preview

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    26 BLOOD LIBEL AND ITS PERSISTENCE IN ANTISEMITIC IMAGINATION Magda Teter One of the most pernicious and enduring antisemitic tales paints Jews as killers of children. The story emerged in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages, first, in twelfth-century Eng- land, as a story of Jews killing adolescent Christian boys in a reenactment of Jesus’ pas- sion, which some modern scholars called “ritual murder” or “ritual crucifixion.” Then, in the thirteenth century, on the continent, a blood motif was added, claiming that Jews killed Christians to obtain their blood for ritual use, thus turning the story into a blood libel. Although these tales emerged in the Middle Ages, they became rooted in European Christian imagination only during the early modern era, after the advent of print, which helped disseminate widely the stories and imagery associated with them, making them so difficult to eradicate that they persist even today. In 2014, for example, the social media company Facebook was asked to remove a page “Jewish Ritual Murder”; it finally complied four years later. In 2015, a group of British white nationalists gathered at the cathedral in Lincoln, England, at the tomb of “Little Hugh of Lincoln,” whose death in 1255 resulted in alibelous trial and execution of Jews, “to revive a tradition of the English Middle Ages” and to honor “the memory of Little Hugh of Lincoln.”! ....
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    your annual reminder that no man is above the law.

    January 21, 1793 (Old Style):

    execution of traitor Louis Capet (the monarch formerly known as Louis XVI), who broke his oath to uphold the new Constitution and conspired with the enemy

    revolution.chnm.org/items/show/526 1/n

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    For monarchists & moderates disturbed by the violence of the Revolution, Louis XVI was a martyr to fanaticism & violence

    Silver medal: “immolated by the factious [in sense of rebels, political troublemakers]…mourn him, avenge him” by Adolf Loos from his so-called Set of the Six Victims, c 1795 2/n

    reverse: female figure weeping over an urn; thunder and lightning in the skies, emblems of rule on the ground pleures et venges le 21 JanvierMDCCCXCIII

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    Sentimentalization of the death of Louis XVI (21 January 1793):

    the king bidding farewell to his family became a popular theme presented in image and text of the era

    3/n

    Louis saying goodbye to his wife and two children The Last Interview Jan. 20 1793

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    10 Mass. districts remove and restrict book access:

    "Frequently challenged books mostly deal with gender, sexuality, & race....In some cases ...more general pushback or questions regarding “LGBTQ+ & diversity topics & perspectives,
    "But the challenges didn’t all come from conservative voices. Some parents took issue with titles that contained outdated and racist content, such as Dr. Seuss books that are no longer being published due to racist imagery"

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/17/metro/books-banned-in-massachusetts/?s_campaign=bostonglobe:push:web

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    I have to say: the last thing I expected last night while taking a break and watching the detective series, "The Mallorca Files," was: a reference to 19th-century German literature ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B086KYM2HJ/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1

    Max finishes explaining who Grillparzer was, and Miranda can only reply lamely, "I know other things"

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    loss of another major

    Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97 A Jewish refugee from the , he argued that , & the were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”- The New York Times

    I did not always agree with him but actually got to know him pretty well and was grateful for the support he showed me. He consistently tried to ask new questions & was eager to discuss and debate

    gifted:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/world/europe/arno-j-mayer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L00.qGzr.LjhFEJmwPzBw&smid=url-share

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    I find this an appropriate way to mark the new year:

    On January 1, 1892, a 15-year old Irish girl named Annie Moore became the first of the more than 12 million who would pass through the doors of the Ellis Island Immigration Station in its sixty-two years of operation. This small island off the New Jersey coast in the New York Harbor lies in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty

    • 1903 film: Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island

    https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-01?loclr=eatod#huddled-masses-yearning-to-breathe-free

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    On the off-chance you have some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket, and you could use a tax-deductible donation, the Massachusetts Center for the Book @massbook --a public humanities affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress--is about $700 short of reaching its mini-fundraising campaign goal tonight

    https://www.massbook.org/donate

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    Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction LitHub

    "As PEN America’s new report Reading Between the Bars shows, banned in prisons by some states dwarf all other book censorship in school and public libraries. Prison censorship robs those behind bars of everything from exercise and health to art and even yoga, often for reasons that strain credulity"

    The strangest category of bans however, are the ones on magical and fantastical literature.

    https://lithub.com/censoring-imagination-why-prisons-ban-fantasy-and-science-fiction/

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    December 7 is also the anniversary of the great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, an intellectual hero as 1 of the pioneers of modern cultural history, & a political & moral hero as an anti- from the start & resister of the occupation

    How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing
    https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/08/how-johan-huizinga-sent-the-nazis-packing

    https://arthistorians.info/huizingaj

    He is best known to most of us as the author of the 1919 Autumn of the Middle Ages, the translation of which is an epic in itself: https://themarginaliareview.com/a-modern-dutch-master-johan-huizingas-portrait-of-the-middle-ages/

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    December anniversaries: for most of us in the US, December 7 is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, but of course, many dates involve multiple historical anniversaries.

    December 7, 1970 was also a memorable date in Central European history. While visiting to affirm 's acceptance of the postwar borders, socialist Chancellor Willy Brandt spontaneously fell to his knees at the monument, an emotional-personal act of epochal significance

    https://youtu.be/QTHft_6HjpA?si=37d7Y9hQSnTToPsT

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    Life is packed and stressful at this time of year, so I am in remiss in many duties.

    For example, Saturday was the anniversary of both Napoleon's coronation in 1804 and his great victory at Austerlitz in 1805.

    Thanks to photographic color reproduction, we are all familiar with David's famous painting

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/story-of-a-coronation-palace-of-versailles/NgWhI7emoChPKw?hl=en

    Back then, the equivalent was the line engraving. This one appeared in the Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände, published by Cotta of Tübigen, but only in March 1808
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    numbered key to the engraving (German language, Fraktur typeface): identifies the major figures in the scene

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    Restless Books, Independent of literature, opens store in Amherst.

    Europe & the rest of the world are good at works from around the world. Only 3% of US books are translations. Ilan Stavans of Amherst College wanted to rectify this imbalance. His Restless Books, founded in New York around a decade ago, has brought out c. 150 books by 120 authors from 40 countries.

    https://www.gazettenet.com/New-kid-in-town-Restless-Books-a-publisher-of-international-writers-opens-store-in-Amherst-53054434?utm_source=DHGHeadlineAlerts&utm_medium=DailyNewsletter&utm_campaign=HeadlineAlerts&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Wake+up+with+the+Gazette%21&utm_campaign=GZ+Morning+Headlines

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    "a conversation to help teachers, at the K–12 & college levels, develop strategies to teach the – conflict & many of the attendant sensitive historical topics it entails. It might seem that this history is a minefield worth avoiding, but thoughtful & engaged teachers have been teaching such difficult topics in a civil & empathetic way for decades"

    https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/everything-has-a-history/history-behind-the-headlines @AHAHistorians

    a cornucopia of viewpoint diversity

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    ° Clear Intention of Ethnic Cleansing”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov Warns of Genocide in Gaza “Clear Intention of Ethnic Cleansing”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov Warns of Genocide in Gaza Part 2: “From the River to the Sea”: Omer Bartov on Contested Slogan & Why Two-State Solution Is Not Viable -~ Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now! to your inbox each morning
    Ussama Makdisi & @UssamaMakdisi The @nytimes ran a piece about @SenSchumer's very personal speech in which the Senator appears to be both profoundly aware of aspects of U.S and European history, especially as they relate to the pernicious history of Western antisemitism, and yet also profoundly in denial about the history of colonial Zionism in Palestine from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 onwards that culminated in the Nakba of 1948. Yet again the actuality of Palestinian history and lived experience of decades under occupation and apartheid are made to be fundamentally irrelevant to making sense of current events. Leaving aside the Senator's own perspective and feelings to which he is perfectly entitled, what is disturbing is how @nytimes just casually puts this in its report "Mr. Schumer’s warning came as antisemitic hate crimes have skyrocketed and pro-Palestinian protests, some featuring antisemitic signs and slogans, have swelled across the country as the civilian death toll in Gaza has soared." So note how the association works: just keep linking pro-Palestinian solidarity work with antisemitism...casually, repeatedly, and then fixate on the "crisis" on campuses across the country but not the one being experienced by students of all faiths who are being doxxed, abused, and vilified because they dare stand for justice, equality, and freedom in Palestine. 2:27 PM - Nov 30, 2023 - 17.6K Views
    Institute for Palestine Studies Jerusalem Quarterly Issue 92 - Winter 2022 The Jerusalem Light Rail in Historical Perspective: Urban Transportation and Urban Citizenship between Ottomanism and Apartheid Michelle Campos Essays .

    History Behind the Headlines is a webinar series featuring prominent historians discussing the history behind current events. Webinars in this series are generously sponsored by AHA member Jared Brubaker. Upcoming Events History Behind the Headlines: Approaches to Teaching Israel-Palestine History Behind the Headlines Thursday, December 7, 3 p.m. ET Join us for a conversation to help teachers, at the K-12 and college levels, develop strategies to teach the Palestine—Israel conflict and many of the attendant sensitive historical topics it entails, in an atmosphere as charged as the present. It might seem that this history is a minefield worth avoiding, but thoughtful and engaged teachers have been teaching such difficult topics in a civil and empathetic way for decades. A panel of historians with relevant expertise will discuss classroom strategies and how current events have influenced their approach to teaching, as well as how understanding history and engaging seriously with people who inhabited the past can help our students to better understand current events. Moderated by James Ryan (Foreign Policy Research Inst.), this event features Omer Bartov (Brown Univ.), Michelle Campos (Penn State Univ.), Ussama Makdisi (Univ. of California, Berkeley), and Katharina Matro (Walter Johnson High School and American Historical Assn.).
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    Thursday, 5 p.m. Eastern

    Hybrid seminar:

    Teaching the of the : A Roundtable

    Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies : UMass Amherst

    https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistpangallotodd2023

    featuring, among others, @ryancordell & @bookish

    (apologies if I have missed other participants who may be on Mastodon)

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    Because I've been busy, I am late in celebrating the birthday of the great Laurence Sterne, born 24 Nov. 1713 in Clonmel,

    Here, my copy of the posthumously published letters to the object of his literary-romantic devotion, Eliza Draper (2nd ed. 1775).

    Modern readers find in what the editor said he saw in Eliza: “a mind so congenial with his own, so enlightened, so refined, and so tender"

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    Today being , we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections

    Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021

    Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?utm_campaign=wp_veatvoraciously&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_veatvoraciously

    (gifted from behind the paywall)

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    And, keeping it here in Massachusetts, from our friends at WBUR :

    Beyond turkey: How to start a conversation with children about Thanksgiving

    A children’s book author who often goes to to talk about gratitude has advice about how parents can reframe the story of Thanksgiving for their young children.

    We revisit a conversation Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes had last year with Traci Sorell, author of “We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga."

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    again: my colleague Professor Emerita of Photography Sandra Matthews & Nolumbeka Project President David Brule recently published their Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land a photobook of historical & contemporary structures to make us think about the land of the Commonwealth

    https://gftbooks.com/books_Matthews.html

    Video of their talk at Amherst Historical Society:
    https://youtu.be/lDuQHBzPqqM?si=lI4fxLADPhWw3mDA

    David will speak about King Philip's War https://amhersthistory.org/events/king-philips-war-a-local-perspective-by-david-brule/

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    Teaching about & the & epitomizes the goals @AHAHistorians set for students, e.g. learning to see people of the past as both like us & very different, the latter demanding an act of sensitive imagination

    https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core

    The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
    http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/

    2 pieces from the press:

    David Hall, Peace, Love and Puritanism

    https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/opinion/24hall.html

    Maggie Philips The Original Puritans
    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/original-puritans-thanksgiving

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    8. Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that history requires. a. Welcome contradictory perspectives and data, which enable us to provide more accurate accounts and construct stronger arguments. b. Describe past events from multiple perspectives. c. Explain and justify multiple causes of complex events and phenomena using conflicting sources. d. Identify, summarize, appraise, and synthesize other scholars’ historical arguments. 4. Apply the range of skills it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature. a. Consider a variety of historical sources for credibility, position, perspective, and relevance. b. Evaluate historical arguments, explaining how they were constructed and might be improved. c. Revise analyses and narratives when new evidence requires it.

    Core Competencies and Learning Outcomes History students can: 1. Build historical knowledge. a. Gather and contextualize information in order to convey both the particularity of past lives and the scale of human experience. b. Recognize how humans in the past shaped their own unique historical moments and were shaped by those moments. c. Develop a body of historical knowledge with breadth of time and place—as well as depth of detail—in order to discern context. d. Distinguish the past from our very different present. 2. Develop historical methods. a. Recognize history as an interpretive account of the human past—one that historians create in the present from surviving evidence. b. Collect, sift, organize, question, synthesize, and interpret complex material. c. Practice ethical historical inquiry that makes use of and acknowledges sources from the past as well as the scholars who have interpreted that past. d. Develop empathy toward people in the context of their distinctive historical moments.
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    V. interesting to compare obituaries of the great French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Both NY Times & Le Monde stress his popular success as a pioneer of the microhistory & "return to narrative" with Montaillou & Carnival in Romans. Yet NYT leaves out the fact that he & the Annales School were first known for serial collective history, quantitative methods (e.g. his Peasants of Languedoc https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-peasants-of-languedoc/)
    @Mareike2405 addresses this https://historians.social/deck/@Mareike2405@fedihum.org/111460434515549276

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    Enjoyed some , , and in today's outing in Portsmouth, NH (celebrating its 400th anniversary this year):

    first a quick stop at the 1817 Athenaeum (closed today, but sister-in-law is a member). Once there were many of these loca institutions devoted to and . Only 16 remain.

    https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/.

    Day ended with a late-afternoon drive along the seacoast at Rye.

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    the lobby of the Athenaeum with a wall of 18th- and early 19th-century portraits
    the opposite wall of the lobby, with a few more portraits, a late 19th-century ship's figurehead, 18th-century elk antlers above a fireplace, nautical paintings, a Georgian royal document on parchment
    breakers crashing against gray rocks

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    Disaster Control

    NYT video about the Palomares nuclear accident over Spain in 1966.

    A US h-bomber was refueling in mid-air over Southern Spain. Both exploded and four h-bombs fell onto a small Spanish beach town (2 into the Mediterranean). This film examines health consequences to the clean up crew.

    @histodons @nuclearhumanities

    video/mp4

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    @peterjriley2024 @bojacobs @histodons @nuclearhumanities

    Some of this--even though we were small children back then--have a deep memory of this incident

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    Some of us--even though we were small children back then--have a deep memory of this incident

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    Last month I was delighted to attend the @massbook Center for the Awards in the Boston State House Great Hall

    https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards

    Here my former Hampshire College colleague Uzma Aslam Khan accepts the prize for best work of fiction, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-miraculous-true-history-of-nomi-ali-uzma-aslam-khan/17279478?ean=9781646051649

    She spoke eloquently of her long path to completion as she attempted to redress the erasure of colonial subjects in today's &

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    Uzma Aslan Khan in gray dress speaking at podiun: stairway with iron railing leading to wooden doors at rear, US and Massachsetts flags at either side

    Great Hall, Boston State House: created from a former courtyard in the new section of the structure, it has beige brick walls and a gabled glass ceiling. Around the top of the walls are the flags of the towns and cities of Massachusetts: a great aesthetic, though the motivation for hanging them was to dampen noise
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    Outstanding talk today by @erik_kwakkel on the unique combination of intuition and rational analysis that allow the expert paleographer to identify the time and place when a was produced.

    https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistkwakkel2023

    Delighted that @CandaceRobbAuthor and @taoish were able to attend

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    IN ONE HOUR:

    5 p.m. Eastern (via Zoom)

    'The Hidden Voice of the Scribe' with Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia : Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies : UMass Amherst

    https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistkwakkel2023

    Five-College Seminar in the of the , hosted by the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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    Thursday, 5 p.m. Eastern (via Zoom)

    'The Hidden Voice of the Medieval Scribe' with Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia : Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies : UMass Amherst

    https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistkwakkel2023

    Five-College Seminar in the of the , hosted by the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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    While the notion of intuition would perhaps seem out of place in the g empirical arena of academia, it thrives in many Humanities disciplines. The study of medieval manuscripts, books before the application of printing, leans heavily on intuitive verdicts. The expert eye of the paleographer will recognize in the style of a scribe’s handwriting precisely when and where a manuscript was produced, sometimes with eerie precision. The source of this sensation is the shape of the handwritten letters. Looking at medieval handwriting, the experienced eye of the A paleographer will be hit by an abundance of unsolicited information about the manuscript’s origins, including when and where the book was produced, or even who wrote it. This presentation will discuss how letters hold features specific for certain centuries and geographical locations, and how we can derive this information from letter shapes. Ultimately, this presentation shows how the scribe speaks to us, modern scholars, through his pen. Erik Kwakkel is Director of the School of Information (iSchool) at The University of British Columbia, where he teaches the History of the Book. His research interests are related to the material design of medieval manuscripts. He has published widely on this topic and the broader culture of the medieval book, including an introductory textbook for students (Books Before Print, Arc Humanities Press, 2018). In 2015 he was appointed to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine.
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    Thursday, November 9, 2023, 5:00pm Eastern

    The Hidden Voice of the Medieval Scribe

    Erik Kwakkel
    University of British Columbia

    This talk will be held over Zoom.

    Five-College Seminar in the History of the hosted by Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of -Amherst

    https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistkwakkel2023

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    Re: authentic & fake : the tragic war has predictably led to bad going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval converts---- thus have no & connection to the land of

    A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed

    Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.

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    The that fed of course affirmed the "Semitic" roots of Jews

    Thereby hangs a tale:

    As far as I can tell, the virus of the myth leaped from the US far right to the thanks to the obsessive activity of the wacko Jewish soap maker, apostate, & denier, Benjamin Freedman. Tragically, they thought he would help them spread their message in the US on the eve of Partition debate at the UN


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    Christians Duped By Unholiest Hoax in All History! "Big lie" technique pushing U. S. A. to the brink of World War III." Characteristic rambling screed by Freedman in the McCarthyite racist Common Sense, showing map with Khazaria circled

    Pamphlet by Benjamin Freedman: The Truth About the Khazars (ironically, this copy is from the Wiener Library in London: a leading Holocaust research institution that was vandalized as part of a protest against Israel's military actions in Gaza: London Holocaust library defaced in latest incident of pro-Palestinian graffiti on Jewish site - Jewish Telegraphic Agency https://www.jta.org/2023/11/03/global/london-holocaust-library-defaced-in-latest-incident-of-pro-palestinian-graffiti-on-jewish-site?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-64063-32455
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    The Arab--+ some other nonwestern--delegates to the UN deployed the argument against & the creation of , though no one took it seriously, & as the eloquent Arab spokesman Cecil Hourani later noted, "It was only on closer contact with him that I came to realize he was less motivated by a love for the Arabs than by an obsessive hatred of Russian & Polish Jews,” “an ancient prejudice which was in fact a form of racism.


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    The League basically abandoned use of the myth after 1948--tho cranks such as Saudi UN envoy & histrionic windbag Jamil Baroody periodically trotted it out.

    Its recurrence is therefore cause for deep concern: 1) a sign of dangerous regression to zero-sum game: denying opponent's identity does not induce him to compromise 2) technique is same: historical distortion disingenuously citing scholarship from the opponent's community. Cheap trick.


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    Here are some examples of the current weaponization of the Myth--from Indonesia -via GoogleTranslate

    Note the strategy: suggest dark secret repressed by sinister forces, cite seemingly respectable sources from the community of the enemy , if possible cite natural science

    The scholarly community resoundingly rejected both Koestler's amateur historical argument & Elhaik's genetic work

    https://forward.com/israel/209236/genetics-expert-insists-75-of-jews-share-roots-in/

    https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/09/23/are-modern-jews-converted-khazarian-pagans-more-evidence-of-middle-eastern-roots/#link


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    So, after all that historical-scientific background, we return to the present to find (random example) people in Indonesia (of all places) promoting this nonsense:

    Again, note the strategy

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    GELORA.CO - Academic scientific studies show that the majority of today's Jews who colonize Palestine are not descendants of the Israelites who once lived in Palestine. The majority of Jews today are of Khazar Jewish descent. Surprisingly, they claim, historically Palestine is their land. Their history and heritage are tied to Palestine. They are the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine. "Aside from them not being native residents there, they are nothing more than people just passing through," wrote Dr Muhsin Muhammad Shaleh in his book entitled "Ardhu Filistin wa Sya'buha" which Warsito, Lc translated as "The Land of Palestine and Its People" . Jews point out that this claim is based on the reign of David and Solomon as well as the existence of the state of 'Israel' and Judaism in Palestine and so on. They claim Palestine is related to their racial (national) affiliation and racial composition. So, can today's Jews prove that they are descendants of the Children of Israel who lived in Palestine before 2000 years ago? Academic scientific studies of a number of Jews themselves, including the study of the famous writer A. Koestler in his book "The Thirteenth Trible: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage", shows that the majority who determine today's Jews are not descendants of the Children of Israel who once lived. in Palestine.
    [Headline over people of diverse appearance apparently holding up Torah scroll covers in Jerusalem (is the implied point supposed to be that they cannot be genetically related? [if so, that displays an embarrassingly uninformed view of the science) Headline: DNA Test Reveals Israel's Current Jewish Inhabitants Are Not From Canaan
    Most of the Jews today, who are mobilizing for the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine, apparently are not people from the former kingdoms of the Prophets David and Solomon in Judea and Samaria. Most of them turned out to be other people, from other races. In short, they were not the Jews we often read about in the scriptures. All of this is confirmed by historical facts and investigations carried out by historical researchers, including Ernest Renan, and even proven through the results of scientific research. Then, who are they? Let's check it out. .... Based on 2016 census data, Israel has a population of around 8.58 million people. As many as 6.45 million of them or 74.8 percent are Jews. Of these Jews, about half are Ashkenazi Jews. The rest are Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and others. Meanwhile, the other residents are Arabs (Muslims, Christians and Druze) and others. Almost all of the founders of the current state of Israel were Jews who migrated from Europe, especially Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and parts of Western Europe such as Germany. Almost all of them are Ashkenazi Jews, from Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president), David Ben- Gurion (Israel's first prime minister), to Benjamin Netanyahu (current Israeli prime minister). Gal Gadot, a former female Israeli soldier, who is now popular for playing Wonder Woman in Hollywood films, is also Ashekenazi Jewish.

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    So, after all that historical-scientific background, we return to the present to find (random example) people in Indonesia (of all places) promoting this nonsense

    Again, note strategy:

    Bold assertion of sinister suppression of dark secret, buttressed by citation of supposedly authoritative sources that reader (at least here) is in no position to evaluate (& reader, trusting source, does not go on to scrutinize)

    And so the crap spreads.

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    GELORA.CO - Academic scientific studies show that the majority of today's Jews who colonize Palestine are not descendants of the Israelites who once lived in Palestine. The majority of Jews today are of Khazar Jewish descent. Surprisingly, they claim, historically Palestine is their land. Their history and heritage are tied to Palestine. They are the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine. "Aside from them not being native residents there, they are nothing more than people just passing through," wrote Dr Muhsin Muhammad Shaleh in his book entitled "Ardhu Filistin wa Sya'buha" which Warsito, Lc translated as "The Land of Palestine and Its People" . Jews point out that this claim is based on the reign of David and Solomon as well as the existence of the state of 'Israel' and Judaism in Palestine and so on. They claim Palestine is related to their racial (national) affiliation and racial composition. So, can today's Jews prove that they are descendants of the Children of Israel who lived in Palestine before 2000 years ago? Academic scientific studies of a number of Jews themselves, including the study of the famous writer A. Koestler in his book "The Thirteenth Trible: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage", shows that the majority who determine today's Jews are not descendants of the Children of Israel who once lived. in Palestine.
    [Headline over people of diverse appearance apparently holding up Torah scroll covers in Jerusalem (is the implied point supposed to be that they cannot be genetically related? [if so, that displays an embarrassingly uninformed view of the science) Headline: DNA Test Reveals Israel's Current Jewish Inhabitants Are Not From Canaan
    Most of the Jews today, who are mobilizing for the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine, apparently are not people from the former kingdoms of the Prophets David and Solomon in Judea and Samaria. Most of them turned out to be other people, from other races. In short, they were not the Jews we often read about in the scriptures. All of this is confirmed by historical facts and investigations carried out by historical researchers, including Ernest Renan, and even proven through the results of scientific research. Then, who are they? Let's check it out. .... Based on 2016 census data, Israel has a population of around 8.58 million people. As many as 6.45 million of them or 74.8 percent are Jews. Of these Jews, about half are Ashkenazi Jews. The rest are Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and others. Meanwhile, the other residents are Arabs (Muslims, Christians and Druze) and others. Almost all of the founders of the current state of Israel were Jews who migrated from Europe, especially Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and parts of Western Europe such as Germany. Almost all of them are Ashkenazi Jews, from Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president), David Ben- Gurion (Israel's first prime minister), to Benjamin Netanyahu (current Israeli prime minister). Gal Gadot, a former female Israeli soldier, who is now popular for playing Wonder Woman in Hollywood films, is also Ashekenazi Jewish.

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    One of the tragedies of the - conflict is that the leaders of the latter have engaged in historical denial--starting with denial there was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem (https://www.thedailybeast.com/temple-denial) and now repeated invocation of the myth by both the Palestinian president (whose PhD thesis was a work of denial https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mahmoud-abbas-soviet-dissertation) + the Prime Minister, who is just loopy.

    This idiocy makes peace-building impossible.

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    Antizionist Pseudohistory Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh, 2021 "The other key to the research is the Jews of today. Who are they? Without going into detail — they are the Khazar Jews, who converted to Judaism in the sixth century CE. This issue requires research. There are many sources and books about the Khazar Jews.

    Antizionist Pseudohistory Palestinian Leader Incites Uproar . . . With Speech Condemned as Anti- Palestinian President Abbas, 2015 Israel, he said, grew out of a European colonial project that had nothing to do with Jewish history or aspirations. And citing a widely discredited book from the 1970s by Arthur Koestler called “The A s L¢ Thirteenth Tribe,” he posited that Ashkenazi Jews were descended not from the biblica Israelites but from the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the eighth century....... —_ Mahmoud Abbas. . . also declared that he ) wanted the Palestinians to live in peace in an ~ independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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    Good to be cautious about that source (I am a fan of Wikipedia: it's just that one needs to know how to evaluate it, esp. when controversial subjects provoke editing wars). Anyway, I spend way too much time reading about genetics, but that is a basically accurate characterization. A prominent interpretation is that, although both males and females came to Europe, male intermarriage with local females created the genetic profile. Main point here, tho, is Mideast ancestry

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    @drmikeh49 @Podophyllum @histodons

    Indeed. When I teach about this stuff I do note the irony of use of genetic research among minority populations. But as I explain: it is so important to Jews & African Americans because their histories were taken away: lives and written records destroyed, so genetics fills in these historical gaps.
    It is a historical-scientific research tool. Religion and identity will always remain personal and cultural. But one needs to have a brain in order to grasp this.

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