Category Archives: Jewish

Religiosity & Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the U.S.

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Max West

Cohen, S.M. 2001. “Religiosity and ethnicity: Jewish identity trends in the United States”, in Who owns Judaism? Public religion and private Faith in America and Israel, vol. XVII, ed. E. Lederhendler, pp. 101-130. Oxford University Press. Cohen identifies 6 dimensions … Continue reading →

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Religion as a Channel of Jewish Ethnicity

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Max West

From “Accounting for Jewish Secularism: Is a New Cultural Identity Emerging?” by Bruce A. Phillips. Source: Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Jewish Secularism (June 2010), pp. 63-85: All Jewish immigrants, regardless of when they came, brought with them … Continue reading →

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The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Max West

Excerpt from Abraham Myerson’s “The ‘Nervousness’ of the Jew,” Mental Hygiene 4 (1920): 65–72: It is idle, of course, to deny that the Jew has an innate character, different from that of other races, which perhaps predisposes him to psychoneuroses … Continue reading →

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Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011)

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Max West

Jews and Race (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) (2011) Edited by Mitchell B. Hart Published by Brandeis University Press Publisher’s Summary: Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants … Continue reading →

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Wolfson – The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018)

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Max West

The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other (2018) By Elliot R. Wolfson Published by Columbia University Press (2018) Publisher Summary: Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in … Continue reading →

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Nazi Faces in the Clouds

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Max West

We live in an era when Leftists see Neo-Nazis in the clouds. This strange sort of Rorschach projection has accelerated in recent years, with SJWs seeing KKK hoods in a woman wrapped in a blanket, Janeane Garofalo saying she heard … Continue reading →

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Leonard the Liberator

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Max West

From David Denby’s review of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein: As a young man, Leonard Bernstein was prodigiously gifted and exceptionally handsome, and he slept with many men and with … Continue reading →

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The Ballad of David Irving

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Max West

Ron Unz’s “The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving” is a must-read and yet another object lesson for the need to question everything. Every grand sweeping narrative you take for granted (e.g., “Winston Churchill is a hero!”) must be, to use … Continue reading →

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NYT: “Mourning My (((White))) Husband in the Age of Trump”

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Max West

Every single unrelenting day, the NYT features at least one story or op-ed designed to say “white people are evil”. There are several today. One is an op-ed titled “Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump” by Erin … Continue reading →

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How German-Jews Tried To Defuse Radical Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Max West

In the annals of U.S. history, the tenuous relationship between highly-assimilated, establishment German-Jews and the huge, secondary wave of Eastern European Jews is quite an interesting one. Tablet has an article on “The Industrial Removal Office”: German American Jewish leaders … Continue reading →

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