Villagers of Tantura expelled by Palmach May 1948 (Benno Rothenberg / Meitar Collection, Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, National Library of Israel) Before 1948, Tantura was a Palestinian coastal fishing village of 1,500 residents located just north of the Israeli town of Zichron Yaakov. As war threatened and conditions worsened for Palestinian residents, the wealthier […]
How Hitler Killed Half the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism Projects Death of the Rest
I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
Le Chambon: It Takes a Village…to Save Jews
Tonight, a small detour from my usual subjects. When I was a UCLA graduate student in 1978, I studied Yiddish with Prof. Janet Hadda. During that year, she asked the class if they would meet with a filmmaker who was planning a film on Yiddish in America. The director was Pierre Sauvage, a Franco-American documentary […]
Walter Soriano, ‘Bibi’s Bully’ and Muscle for Russian Oligarch Suspected of Throwing 2016 Election
DONATE: This is your last chance this year to make a gift supporting the reporting and research of Tikun Olam. The court case I fought and won portrayed below cost $8,000 in legal fees. At the time of my victory, I appealed to readers who helped raise $1,000. Soriano was compelled by the court to […]
