Best Posts Series § 8
Best Posts Series § 8
This links' post includes several links to truly exceptional sites on what I called "Literature, History, Politics," which I've been gathering for a long time. But, first of all:
"This year marks the 25th anniversary of a mass immigration wave that would ultimately bring more than one million immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union." My family has been among those FSU immigrants, that's why I wanted to share those series of posts about how we, FSU immigrants, changed Israel and how Israel changed us.
Literature, History, Politics
At this Psychohistory website (*), in the "Books" section, I was interested in the book "The Origins of War in Child Abuse," especially in "Chapter 6: The Childhood Origins of World War II and the Holocaust." Psychohistory may not give all the answers, but it has led to several important insights, imo.
"Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale and the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin." You may read articles by this famous historian here. He has written a lot about Ukraine and Russia, and even though the most recent article is dated November, 2014, some are more relevant than ever. See, for instance, "Ukraine: The Antidote to Europe’s Fascists?"
Kenan Malik is "a writer, lecturer and broadcaster." His post with "99 of the most relevant essays and reviews" is here. I was especially interested in his posts on Enlightenment (not all of them are included in the above list, f.e. "the enlightenment - and why it still matters" is not) and in his posts on multiculturalism. Regarding the latter, "the failure of multiculturalism" seems to fully express his position.
How Iowa Flattened Literature: with CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers.
"How-and How Not-to Love Mankind." The article discusses the differences between "two great European writers of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx." I read Turgenev's "Mumu" in childhood, which made the article even more interesting.
He has also written "The Specters Haunting Dresden" and "Modernity’s Uninvited Guest: Civilization makes progress, but evil persists." (In general, I don't agree with many of his opinions, but some of his columns are interesting, and, for somebody from the Middle East, educational regarding how quite many Europeans perceive the developments on their continent.)
Ottomans and Zionists: Blogging about Turkey and Israel, the two most interesting countries in the Middle East.
Articles by Terry Eaglton, "a literary critic, writer and chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing."
Language
A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns
Why Is the Mor in Voldemort (and Mordor and Dr. Moreau) So Evil-Sounding?
Photos
52 Powerful Photos Of Women Who Changed History Forever
The Most Astonishing Photos That Won Awards In 2014
Please, comment to let me know whether anybody reads those posts.
(*) "Psychohistory, the science of historical motivations, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present."
This links' post includes several links to truly exceptional sites on what I called "Literature, History, Politics," which I've been gathering for a long time. But, first of all:
"This year marks the 25th anniversary of a mass immigration wave that would ultimately bring more than one million immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union." My family has been among those FSU immigrants, that's why I wanted to share those series of posts about how we, FSU immigrants, changed Israel and how Israel changed us.
Literature, History, Politics
At this Psychohistory website (*), in the "Books" section, I was interested in the book "The Origins of War in Child Abuse," especially in "Chapter 6: The Childhood Origins of World War II and the Holocaust." Psychohistory may not give all the answers, but it has led to several important insights, imo.
"Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale and the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin." You may read articles by this famous historian here. He has written a lot about Ukraine and Russia, and even though the most recent article is dated November, 2014, some are more relevant than ever. See, for instance, "Ukraine: The Antidote to Europe’s Fascists?"
Kenan Malik is "a writer, lecturer and broadcaster." His post with "99 of the most relevant essays and reviews" is here. I was especially interested in his posts on Enlightenment (not all of them are included in the above list, f.e. "the enlightenment - and why it still matters" is not) and in his posts on multiculturalism. Regarding the latter, "the failure of multiculturalism" seems to fully express his position.
How Iowa Flattened Literature: with CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers.
"How-and How Not-to Love Mankind." The article discusses the differences between "two great European writers of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx." I read Turgenev's "Mumu" in childhood, which made the article even more interesting.
He has also written "The Specters Haunting Dresden" and "Modernity’s Uninvited Guest: Civilization makes progress, but evil persists." (In general, I don't agree with many of his opinions, but some of his columns are interesting, and, for somebody from the Middle East, educational regarding how quite many Europeans perceive the developments on their continent.)
Ottomans and Zionists: Blogging about Turkey and Israel, the two most interesting countries in the Middle East.
Articles by Terry Eaglton, "a literary critic, writer and chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing."
Language
A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns
Why Is the Mor in Voldemort (and Mordor and Dr. Moreau) So Evil-Sounding?
Photos
52 Powerful Photos Of Women Who Changed History Forever
The Most Astonishing Photos That Won Awards In 2014
Please, comment to let me know whether anybody reads those posts.
(*) "Psychohistory, the science of historical motivations, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present."