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 […]
Covid19 and the Abuse of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
COMMENTING NOTE: Because of a technical issue with a plugin update which caused the admin portion of the site to crash, my web host had to revert to a previous version of the installation. This caused some of the comment settings to deactivate and commenting was unavailable for the past week. My apologies. And thanks […]
Bernie’s Up 6 Points in New Hampshire and the MSM is Losing Its Mind
Let me know how this sounds. pic.twitter.com/xf35KktXDH — Colin W (@CWiebrecht) February 10, 2020 Thanks to Alexandra Halaby, who alerted me via Twitter to this clip from a Chuck Todd panel on MSNBC earlier today. In it, Todd rails against the so-called intemperate supporters of Bernie Sanders. He quotes Jonathan Last calling Sanders’ followers the […]
