“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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