BHR-41
Brit-Am Historical Reports
18 June 2010 6 Tammuz 5770
Contents:
1. Jews Gave Charity to Irish During Famine
163 Years Later, a President Visits to Say Thank You by JIM DWYER
2. Was the Tartessian language a Celtic Dialect?
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.08
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1. Jews Gave Charity to Irish During Famine
163 Years Later, a President Visits to Say Thank You
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/nyregion/23about.html
By JIM DWYER
Extracts:
Jacques Judah Lyons had a strong tenor voice, one that people were glad to hear in song or speech. One March night, he used it to challenge a crowd in Lower Manhattan. Strangers in a far-off place needed their help, he said, but he knew that members of his audience had principled objections. So many of their own people, they pointed out, other Jews right there in New York, were also destitute and needed assistance.
But were these objections real, he asked, or just 'excuses which the lips utter while they are rejected by the heart''
He was speaking in a synagogue on Crosby Street on March 8, 1847, where he was the chazan, or prayer leader. His subject was relief for people in Ireland who were starving to death in a famine caused by failures of crop and government. By the end of that evening, Mr. Lyons had collected about $200 from the congregation, Shearith Israel, according to an account in the April 1847 issue of The Occident, a monthly on Jewish subjects.
On Sunday, more than 163 years later, the congregation, now at 70th Street and Central Park West, will be visited by the president of Ireland, Mary McAleese. She will give thanks for the generosity of Shearith Israel and another New York congregation, Shaaray Tefila, during the famine years. About $1,000 for relief was collected by Jews in New York.
The Irish famine, which ran from about 1845 to 1852, was among the first humanitarian crises to be reported in the early days of global media. People and religious groups from around the world responded with donations, as described by Christine Kinealy, a professor at Drew University, in the current issue of Irish America magazine.
The first major contributions came from Calcutta, where about 40 percent of the occupying British Army was Irish-born. The Choctaw Indians, who were displaced from their homelands in the southeastern United States earlier in the 19th century, sent $174 to Ireland. Money was raised from prisoners in Sing Sing, former slaves in the Caribbean, convicts on a prison ship in London, slave churches in the South. Major sources of donations included the Society of Friends and the British Relief Association, led by Lionel de Rothschild.
The famine began with a blight on the leaf of the potato, a staple of Irish tenant farmers, and accelerated through a system of absentee landlords and colonialism. The relief efforts became tangled in bureaucratic snares and rigid commitments by British authorities to free-market solutions. . Some evangelists saw an opportunity to swap soup for the conversion of Catholics.
But there was no such agenda for most of the donors, including Shearith Israel. The congregation was formed in 1654 by Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had been living in Brazil and were driven out. When 23 refugees reached New Amsterdam, the Dutch West Indies Company ordered Peter Stuyvesant to accommodate them, 'provided the poor among them shall not become a burden to the Company or to the community, but be supported by their own nation.'
Mr. Lyons became the chazan in 1839. He helped found Jews Hospital, now known as Mount Sinai. His appeal in 1847 on behalf of the Irish bluntly stated that the Jews who gathered on Crosby Street had almost nothing in common with the people on the tiny island. 'There is but one connecting link between us and the sufferers,' he said. 'That link, my brethren, is humanity.' When Mr. Lyons died in 1877, his niece, Emma Lazarus ' author of the 'Give me your tired' inscription for the Statue of Liberty ' wrote a verse in his honor, 'to requite the just man's service with a just man's death.'
Mr. Burgess, the Irish government's senior official in New York, learned about the gifts of the Jews here from a friend who saw some information about them in the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin. Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, connected the Irish officials with the Shearith congregation.
The congregation has continued its charitable works since 1847. The Irish are now among the leading donors of official development aid. Mr. Burgess said that was part of the famine legacy: 'A few years back, President McAleese said, 'We are a first world nation with a third world memory.' '
2. Was the Tartessian language a Celtic Dialect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessian_language
Atlantic Bronze Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bronze_Age
In Koch's own words:
"Considering comparanda from Goidelic, Brittonic, Gaulish, and Lepontic, as well as Hispano-Celtic, many further Celtic etymologies for Tartessian can now be set out as worth consideration. The overall density of more-or-less probably Celtic forms within the corpus thus increases significantly. This observation is particularly the case for the longer and best-preserved epigraphic texts. Therefore, it now appears that the more promising working hypothesis is that Tartessian is simply an Indo-European language, specifically a Celtic one."
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.08
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering Neanderthal cognition:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm'id=did-neandertals-think-like-us
... which seems appropriate, since they apparently ate lions:
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/06/08/neanderthalsfeasted-onlions.html
On the 'thermal hypothesis' and human development:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/09/turkana_heat_history/
More on early fish diets:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122857.htm
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AFRICA
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More on that African ark:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi'file=/c/a/2010/06/06/MN1V1DLVH8.DTL
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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3500 years b.p. pagan 'cultic vessels' from near Haifa:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137920
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp'Modul_id=14
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx'id=177711
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100607/wl_mideast_afp/israelarchaeologyreligion_20100607184735
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdQhVlK9zDvOfGPHAETGNckH3sfAD9G6LGM00
http://www.euronews.net/2010/06/09/pagan-antiquities-in-israel/
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/pagan-antiquities-unearthed-in-israel.html
Oldest known beehives in Israel:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0609/Archaeologists-discover-beehives-from-ancient-Israel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37594054/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-ancient-bees-20100608%2C0%2C4547302.story
http://www.livescience.com/history/acient-beehive-israel-100609.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123578
http://www.haaretz.com/news/archeologists-find-3-000-year-old-beehives-in-ancient-city-s-ruins-in-n-israel-1.228817
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19013-biblical-beekeepers-picked-the-best-bees.html
Israel plans to register antiquities collections (didn't they say this
a few years ago'):
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/2009-08/05/c_1320958.htm
Semi touristy thing on Ebla:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201006096153/Travel/syria-ebla-kingdom-greatest-archaeological-discovery-in-middle-east.html
An interview with Daniel Master on the 2010 Ashkelon excavations:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2277
... and we'll possibly be hearing more about these finds on Mount Gerizim:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/samaritans-seek-opening-of-holy-site-found-in-idf-dig-1.295495
They're preserving some of Iran's salt men:
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/jun/1101.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Feature on Hannibal:
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/h/hannibal.html
... and the Mithraic Mysteries:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/world/3740-mithraic-mysteries-and-the-cult-of-empire
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Apparently runes are gibberish:
http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/culture/122-culture/49171-archaeologists-given-the-rune-around.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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An interesting photo of slave children from an NC attic:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp'int_sec=2&int_new=38596
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100611/ap_on_re_us/us_slavery_photo
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On ancient rivers and digital modelling:
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s2920302.htm
The interesting life of an art detective:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/arts/design/07wittman.html
A cooler Pacific may have affected medieval Europe:
http://www.physorg.com/news195309866.html
Domestication made dogs dumber:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/06/09/2922751.htm
More on Jewish genetic similarity in various parts of the globe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10276393.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news195313667.html
Why the Queen has two birthdays:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php'storyId=127799054
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Hadrian's Wall:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/3787945/Beneath-Hadrians-Wall
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CRIME BEAT
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Palestinian police confiscated an 'undated bust' from near Nablus:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx'ID=290492
... and a pile of Byzantine antiquities from a village in Hebron:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx'ID=290785
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Genghis Khan:
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/genghis-khan-exhibit-7044/
Someone's buying up bibles for a museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/business/12bibles.html
A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
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