BHR-46
Brit-Am Historical Reports
11 August 2010 1 Elul 5770
Contents:
1. Anti-Semitism is worse in 2010 than 1910
By GIL SHEFLER
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.16
3. Two Good Yiddishe Boys
The Jewish Associations of Musician Louis Armstrong and Military Man Colin Powell
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1. Anti-Semitism is worse in 2010 than 1910
By GIL SHEFLER
http://www.jpost.com/Features/
InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=184274
Extracts:
An interview with Prof. Wistrich at Hebrew U.
Times are dire, anti-Semitism is on the rise and the world is becoming a more perilous place for the Jews to live in by the day, if you ask Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, the head of the Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon
International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism and the author of a recently published book on the subject called A Lethal Obsession:
Anti-Semitism - From Antiquity to the Global Jihad.
"The year 1910 in comparison with what we've been living through in the past decade is a paradise," he said unhesitatingly. "There was a nasty and ugly potential for anti-Semitism in 1910 but relatively speaking Jews lived in a stable environment and as one Jewish writer Stefan Zweig wrote it was an age of golden security."
The one big exception to that rule is Czarist Russia, that great bastion of anti-Semitism where Jews were confined to live under institutional discrimination within the confines of the Pale of Settlement and were victims of periodic pogroms. Anti-Semitism in Russia in 1910 was worse than it is today, he admits, but not the West.
"Today, even in the most advanced and democratic societies, Jews are uncomfortable," he claims. "The real difference between 1910 and today is not that anti-Semitism is less common but that Israel provides a powerful shield and deterrent. Not a perfect deterrent and also a cause of anti-Semitism in itself."
"There's a common resentment of Israel and American often linked with anti-Semitic thinking. Clearly, this has been round 70-80 years but it picked up steam with the Islamic Revolution. What we see is an assault on the West in which Israel and the Jews have become a surrogate for an attack."
Wistrich's prose has won praise by reviewers but his thick brick of a book isn't light reading. In case you've ever wondered what kind of a person walks into a bookstore and picks up a 1,000 page history of anti-Semitism Wistrich's answer might surprise you "it's not just Jews, he says. "By far the most insightful comments have been from non-Jews," he says. "In the US I appear on nationwide radio shows."
As one might expect those readers are mostly Mormons, Catholics and evangelicals, who tend to be supportive of Israel and Jews in general.
Ironically, the elites are the great hope in the struggle against anti-Semitism. Once, they despised and feared uppity Jews. Now, they realize the error of their ways.
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.16
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 13.16
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 3000 y.b.p. Canaanite bracelet from Israel:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39696
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-08/03/c_13428487.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138923
Not sure if we've mentioned this Philistine temple from Gath find:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3927273,00.html
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100804/archaeologists-uncover-philistine-temple-in-goliaths-hometown/
Claims of extracts from the Cyrus Cylinder being found in China (hmmmm):
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Extracts-of-Cyrus-Cylinder-found-in-China_/21147
http://www.iranian.com/main/news/2010/08/04/british-museum-curator-has-identified-cuneiform-text-inscribed-horse-bones
The focus on this one is ANE items but it looks like Xray fluorescence can
be used to
determine the origins of assorted items (in this case a late Bronze Age
letter):
http://www.physorg.com/news200229766.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805143059.htm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1901707/reading_the_zip_codes_of_3500yearold_letters/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12647
http://yubanet.com/scitech/Reading-the-zip-codes-of-3-500-year-old-letters.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/afot-rtz080510.php
Feature on the Tel Beth Shemesh dig:
http://www.yorknewstimes.com/articles/2010/08/06/news/doc4c5a0b8779d9c381138275.txt
Interview with Oded Borowski about his dig near Kibbutz Lahav and other
things:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2428
Interesting feature about/interviews with some of the folks of the IAA:
http://www.archaeology.org/israel_antiquities_authority/
Not really an archaeology story per se, but if this report is accurate,
things
are going to get even more complicated in Israel:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138949
... seems it's related to this:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=183704
... and the Temple Mount saga continues:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/government-tried-to-bury-report-on-temple-mount-excavations-1.305298
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=183575
More on who wrote the DSS:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls-bible-science-tv/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Review of Simon Price, *The Birth of Classical Europe*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7926897/The-Birth-of-Classical-Europe-by-Simon-Price-and-Peter-Thonemann-review.html
Review of Robert OConnell, *The Ghosts of Cannae*:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-06/hannibal-killed-100-romans-per-minute-at-cannae-lewis-lapham.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plans to probe a possible Saxon hall site in Powys:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-10837347
Evidence of early Scots decorating:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/08/03/archaeologists-uncover-decorations-on-orkney-stones-86908-22460847/
The dig at Marden Henge is wrapping up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8892000/8892445.stm
Latest facial (and voice?) reconstruction is of Gristhorpe Man:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8310552.Scientists_give_face_and_voice_to_Bronze_Age_man/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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... and some reaction from Australia's Aborigines:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7924242/Aborigines-claim-Unesco-list-whitewashes-Australias-cultural-heritage.html
Humans were lucky to survive an ancient climate crisis, apparently:
http://www.physorg.com/news200216929.html
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CRIME BEAT
Latest in the Raphael Golb trial:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/08/06/2010-08-06_manhattan_lawyer_raphael_golb_charged_with_impersonating_dead_sea_scrolls_reject.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/accused_dead_trial_scrolls_identity_EGuHNd1T8NVwbZlU5L1oOJ
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Tut's chariot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/arts/design/03chariot.html
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/03/king-tuts-chariot-arrives-in-nyc/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around-town/events/King-Tuts-Chariot-on-Display-at-Times-Square-99847434.html
A Pictish throne is on display at a Highlands museum threatened with
closure:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-10879788
Feature on the renovated Israel Museum:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39804
3. Two Good Yiddishe Boys
The Jewish Associations of Musician Louis Armstrong and Military Man Colin Powell
http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2010/
08/two-good-yiddishe-boys.html?utm_source
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Extracts:
Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish,from his childhood through his whole life, and always wore a Star of David around his neck.
In 1993, in his position as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two years after he guided the American victory over Iraq in the Gulf War, General Colin Powell visited the Holy Land. Upon meeting Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem, he greeted the Israeli with the word "Men kent reden Yiddish" (We can speak Yiddish). As Shamir, stunned, tried to pull himself together, the current Secretary Of State continued chatting in his second-favorite language. Colin Powell never forgot his early days working at Sickser's.
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