Tag: Anti-Semitism
Alma Gottlieb , May 18th, 2022
The notion of a “theory” comes from science. As such, the term conveys all the legitimacy upon which the scientific method relies. It should not be tossed around…
Alma Gottlieb , March 3rd, 2022
The last time I heard anyone utter the name, Przemysl, I must have been ten or eleven years old. In his thickly Yiddishized English, my maternal grandfather must…
Alma Gottlieb , February 2nd, 2020
Despite being a lifelong non-coffee-drinker, I somehow found myself reading two fantastic books about coffee recently. The first, Miriam Sagan’s A Hundred Cups of Coffee, hijacked me from…

Maximilian C. Forte , January 6th, 2020
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
Chelsea Horton , November 15th, 2019
The Berlin Wall has always had multiple lives. Beyond its fall lies a story of proliferating borders and exclusions. “Berlin is not the same without a Wall,” said…

Alma Gottlieb , March 1st, 2017
Photo by Alma Gottlieb Women (and some men) with signs, as far as the eye could see. In my first post about the Women’s March of…

Alma Gottlieb , July 9th, 2016
Symbolic anthropologists, take note. What’s in a symbol? Everything, when it comes to politics. Especially, election-year politics. And especially when a major political candidate claims ign…

Alma Gottlieb , April 23rd, 2016
A shorter version of this post will soon appear online as a podcast, in coordination with the motion put to a vote among the membership of the American…

Alma Gottlieb , February 1st, 2015
Much of the Western world has expressed solidarity with the right to publish offensive cartoons by identifying with the cartoonists at the iconoclastic weekly, Charlie Hebdo, who were…