Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingride Simonyte told JNS there is always more to do in terms of Holocaust education. “The main point is to be constant,” she said. “Not to just do a lot now and then nothing. It is not the intensity that matters, but the consistency.”
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Feb. 24, 2021
The catastrophe of January 6th’s attempted coup helped focus attention on one particularly controversial incoming congresswoman: Marjorie Taylor Greene. Whereas figures like Ted Cruz acted as nominal figureheads for the insurgent Tea Party influx in 2012, Greene has become in 2021 the firebrand of a new, post-Trump presidency Republican populism.
And it is no coincidence that so much of her conspiratorial mindset, and the protective embrace she’s won from the GOP, is based on antisemitism.
Greene’s politics are more an impulsive hodgepodge of reactionary hearsay than a fundamental ideological position, spanning a Seth Rich smear (alleging the former DNC staffer was killed by the MS-13 gang on Obama’s orders) and the equally baseless suggestion that the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas was a ‘false flag’ operation.
Book Review: “From Left to Right” The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020
This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff. Wayne State University Press, 538 pp., $34.99.
There were several reasons I wanted to read a biography of historian and public intellectual Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990). First,