I spent most of today driving, so any celebration of July 4th has been a bit muted. A thought for the day from Thomas Paine’s introduction to Age of Reason. I put the following work under your protection. It contains my opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I have [...]
Below is the final part of the interview with Yoav Sorek. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. The Holiness in the Seam Line Sector Maybe redemption will come from what you call the boundary sector, people who occupy the area between the religious and the secular? “Correct. Taking off the kippah is maybe [...]
Over at H-Law there is an interesting discussion about the “top ten historians.” Even with all of the limitations and biases involved in making such a list, whether they be geographical, disciplinary, etc., it is a lively and informative discussion. The most recent posts from this discussion thread can be found here, starting with this [...]
I am a big fan of using maps to illustrate certain aspects of history and this one is highly recommended. Via Targuman.
“It is also nonsense to draw a line between ‘interpretive’ history and some other sort. All historians who are worth anything are and have always been interpretive. They never just throw data at the reader like dead fish and say: you make something of it. They have always tried to interpret their data imaginatively; and [...]
Way back at the beginning of this blog, I wrote two posts on early Hebrew printing in Izmir/Smyrna. I haven’t thought about Izmir much, but recently a new book has been published about one of those forgotten wars of the 20th c., the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922 describes what happened when the [...]
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