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ARCHIVE OF EAST GALICIAN PERIODICAL PRESSS, 1918 -- 1939
UKRAINIAN, JEWISH AND POLISH SUBJECTIVITIES, eAST GALICIA (WEST UKRAINE), 1918 -- 1939
The titular Collection comprises five historical collections of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish daily and weekly periodicals published in East Galicia, Poland (present day Ukraine) in interwar period, 1918 –1939. What makes this Collection unique is that it serves to be a source for multi-disciplinary research and studies united by the common goal to facilitate studies of Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish Subjectivities in East Galicia in interwar period. We have selected and categorized thousands of newspapers and magazines according to five historical themes that reflect ethno - political, national and social discourses. Each of five aggregated collections is a digital repository of its own right bringing to public view under-researched and often stigmatized topics of the entangled and perplexed relations between Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish communities. Comparative reading and analysis of the documents should serve the purpose of understanding the viewpoints, decision-making and public opinions that drive Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish national paradigms. Periodical press of this period is a highly valuable historical source allowing us to delve into national identities, vicissitudes of political agendas and often antagonistic to each other societal trends.
We have digitized a great number of the interwar periodicals ourselves and added also a significant number of digital objects available in public domain, originally hosted by several academic institutions in Ukraine and Poland. Most of the Ukrainian newspapers have been microfilmed and digitized by us, the Institute for Research, Preservation and Analysis of Existential Situations, non- profit organization located in Los Angeles. We have also been collecting microfilms from the interlibrary loans of several American universities. Please note that the core of the initial collections comprises microfilmed materials from Vasyl Stefanyk National Academic Library in Lviv, Ukraine. We have been microfilming Ukrainian and Jewish periodicals from the original newspaper binders at the premises of the Special Collections of this Library.
In the result we have collected thousands of digital objects which have been categorized and preliminary catalogued according to our Project. Our goal is to create five digital collections and have them indexed on collection and document levels.
Some of our documents for UKRAINIAN, JEWISH AND POLISH SUBJECTIVITIES, eAST GALICIA (WEST UKRAINE), 1918 -- 1939
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About MEMORY IN ACTION: EMBRACING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg,President and CEO of Research and Education, Rabbi of Hollywood Temple Beth El
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Dr. Vladimir Melamed, Executive Director, Noted Historian and Researcher of Modern European History
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Richard Hirschhaut-expert on Jewish communal affairs
Regional Director, American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles
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Tatyana Rodzinek, expert of integration of Jews from the former Soviet Union
Russian Language Community Programs Coordinator , City of West Hollywood
Douglas Workman, Technical Advisor
Edward Melamed, Content Manager
He graduated from Columbia University with degree in Psychology. His work experience includes applied research at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California
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The Online Archives will be available for research and education. We will be cataloguing, indexing and digitizing the documents for our Projects: official records, daily press, literary work, personal correspondences, memoirs and family photo-documents.
We are focussing on the documented history in the regions of interest: Los Angeles, East-Central Europe, Middle East and on the oral histories of a broader personal experience.
See also articles by our staff on Academia.edu and Academia and Academia Letters in this regard: https://www.academia.edu/50926698/UKRAINIAN_AND_JEWISH_VICISSITUDES_EAST_GALICIA_1918_1923_OBJECT_SUBJECT_RELATIONSHIPS_AND_INTERSUBJECTIVITY_Existential_Analysis
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Keywords: Eastern Europe; Ukraine; Austro-Hungary; collective memory; historical narrative
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A Visual History of LA Jewry
Literary and Arts Section
Literature of European and American Modernism: literary and comparative analysis
Polish-Jewish Literature: Literature in Polish written by Jews
Polish modernist literature by Jewish-Polish authors
Existential Central European Literature in German before and after the First World War
The Art of Weimar Republic and the European reflections
Bruno Schulz, Polish-Jewish writer and artist. Explore his inner circle of the non-ordinary world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/02/bruno-schulz-nocturnal-apparitions-benjamin-balint/
Joseph Roth, writer and philosopher. He was a man of few possessions and a haunted, lonely mind, whose life stands out for unrepentant self-destruction.
Hans Fallada, modernist literature in the Third Reich
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Albert Camus, Existential philosopher and author
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Ida, Drama, 2014, Director Pawel Pawlikowski, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaXwufbOlc
Son of Saul, Drama, 2015, Director Laszlo Nemes
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Wolyn (Hatred), Drama, 2016, Director Wojcech Smarzowski
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Pianist, Drama, 2002, Director Roman Polanski
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Ashes and Diamonds, Drama, 1958, Director Andrzej Waida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqhCAZSo3Y
The Zone of Interest, Drama, 2024, Director Jonathan Glazer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vfg3KkV54
Golda, 2023, Biographical Drama
Director Guy Nativ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJETvSNa178
A Visual History of LA Jewry
A Visual History of LA Jewry
A Visual History of LA Jewry
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In 1851, the new Jewish settlers organized in Los Angeles a congregation Beth El, but they did not have neither a cantor or Rabbi and assembled for religious services only on New Year and the day of Atonement (I.J. Benjamin, Three Years in America, 1859 - 1862, trans. Charles Reznikoff (Philadelphia, 1956), II, 101.
Hollywood Temple Beth El, the first synagogue of Hollywood, was founded just as the burgeoning film industry was setting roots in Los Angeles in 1922.
In 1952, the members of Hollywood Temple Beth El built the magnificent edifice at the corner of N Crescent Heights and Fountain, in the heart of what would become the City of West Hollywood.It was designed by noted architect, Harry Hiller, and it has since been on the tour route of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles for its unique design. It seems to have been influenced by artist depictions of the ancient Temple of Solomon in JerusalemThe structure also houses three sets of stained glass windows depicting the twelve tribes. The large windows in the Main Sanctuary were crafted by Francis J. Dunham in 1967. The most recent set, on the doors to the sanctuary lobby, were designed by Joe Young, architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Pan-Pacific Park.The magnificent structure now serves as the headquarters of the Iranian American Jewish Federation.
This historic building has served as a social and communal home for people in the West Hollywood and Hollywood Hills environs for over a century.
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Memory in Action: Lecture Series
Themes for the future pennels and discussions:
Anticipatory Anxiety: Literary and Cinematic Models
Does anti-semitism stands for anti-Jewishness: social and political dimensions
Collaboration in the Holocaust:
Everlasting existential discourse
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Memory in Action: Lecture Series
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Biblical History: Modern Historical Narrative
Jewish - Gentile Discourse in the Context of Ethno-National and Political Developments in Los Angeles: from the Civil War to the end of the Cold War
Temple Beth El as a Reflection on Social, Economic and Cultural Experience of the Jews in Los Angeles : 1920s -- 1990s
Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian anti-colonial national narrative versus Putin's postcolonial expansionism.
Breaking the Russian Geopolitical Dominance
History of Jews in Los Angeles, 19th --20st century century
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
This is the History to be written yet
Preliminary tenets and conclusions:
Limited historiography on the Subject
Vague categorization: Cultural or Political History?
History of the Institutions, Societies or Religious organizations?
Integration, disintegration and unification on the notion of American patriotism and support for Israel
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Research and Discourse of what remains beyond and forgotten
THEMES OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Architecture of the Final Solution
Collaboration with Nazi-German administration and the role of Local administrations
Judenraete (Jewish Councils) and Jewish order police in the ghettos: phenomenon of survival
To survive or to resist?
Oral Histories of the Holocaust
The Genocides: Memories and Politics
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GEO-POLITCAL EVENTS THAT MATTER
Published by Vladimir Melamed
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The number of dead in Lviv increased to 7. There are three children among them https://hromadske.ua/.../230662-u-lvovi-znayshly-shche... · See original · Rate this translation
У Львові знайшли ще чотирьох загиблих. Зеленський відреагував
04 вересня 2024 08:56
Унаслідок російського удару по Львову кількість загиблих зросла до семи людей.
Про це повідомили голова обласної військової адміністрації Максим Козицький та міський голова Андрій Садовий.
Водночас кількість постраждалих зросла до 38 людей. «Чорний день для нашої області», — написав Козицький.
Раніше також було відомо про загибель дівчинки, чоловіка та жінки, яка працювала медсестрою-акушеркою в одній із поліклінік міста.
Президент Володимир Зеленський відреагував на удар по Львову, а також по Кривому Рогу, який теж опинився під атакою росіян.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · pdnreotosSm2Ju6f1a786f46ntc wh57uofa4651aituf5mu08gsitcu18g6 ·
Live Updates: Russian Strike Kills More Than 50 in Ukraine, Zelensky Says
Two ballistic missiles hit a military academy and a neighboring hospital in eastern Ukraine, the latest in a string of deadly Russian attacks.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · strSnepoodufw73c4sc60244lg96 9c0J0mi01lu4nc7fu3mough6l1gt512 · Extending the war onto the Russian Territory, General Syrskiy, architect of the Koursk operation
strSnepood1f473c47c60244lg96h9c0g0mi01lu4uc7fu3mhugh6l1gt512 · Ukraine’s brazen invasion of Russia has shined a brighter spotlight on its architect, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, the 59-year-old who became Ukraine’s top military commander in February.
Ukraine General’s Plan Surprised the Russians—and His Own Troops
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy learned from Ukraine’s previous counteroffensive and kept its Russian incursion a secret
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-general-oleksandr-syrskiy-russia-kursk-incursion-32965fb9?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawFA5tZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZsDrSmCVO1m9ZAfKTp31C8SubFfWT1fnJKuhPcSOJGJCXXFqRWE2GUGCw_aem__pTnc-iNQR1P_k4ak3gG1g
Published by Vladimir Melamed
Russia Pounds Ukraine With ‘One of the Largest Strikes’ of the War
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned an assault of more than 200 missiles and drones that ranged from Kyiv to Odesa to Ukraine’s West. Energy infrastructure was again a target.
roeptnsdSo0027uhm423thg9i0aau210mft0i9mg83938gtu3ufht4g2utmh · Russia launched more than 200 missiles and drones across a wide swath of Ukraine on Monday, damaging energy facilities and sending residents of Kyiv into basements and subways to seek shelter. The assault was “one of the largest strikes” of the 30-month-old war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. https://nyti.ms/4cJCa43
Ukraine in Kursk: a lesson in strategic audacity
- August 26, 2024
- Mick Ryan
- Themes: Ukraine, War
Ukraine's surprise offensive into Kursk has not only caught Russia off guard but also shocked its allies, exposing the contrast between Ukrainian boldness and the West's timidity.
Perfect analysis and highly warranted perspective:
Published by Vladimir Melamed · erpdoosStnh iJtcit03t041hchi67i1uugs7ontaf6cfu6t1lw39t7hftm1 · A perfect perspective from an independent journalist "For two weeks now, soldiers of what Russian President Vladimir Putin considers a “Nazi regime” have been pouring over the border in the first foreign occupation of Russia since World War II. Putin and his propaganda apparatus, from the media to schools to the scholars rewriting history books, have been drumming up this moment: the great threat to Russia’s very survival on par with the real Nazi invasion in 1941. No matter where they live or what they do, Russians cannot escape the constant barrage of World War II allegories beckoning them to mobilize against any invader."
erpdoosStnh1i1tci403t041hchi67i1uug67uhtaf6cf56t1lf39t7hftm1 · The response of most Russians to Ukraine’s offensive into Kursk, now entering its third week, has been a passive, fatalistic shrug, Alexey Kovalev writes.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · · Russia has always been a police state. Although not many ordinary Russians care about civil liberties. Follow the mainstream and do your own business. One can be perfectly fine if not interested in politics.
· US-Russian dual national jailed for 12 years on treason charges for $52 donation to Ukraine"YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana was convicted Thursday of treason in a Russian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges stemming from a donation of about $52 to a charity aiding Ukraine.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · snrSoedtoptamfn1f09a6497smui l2ih1J10mfutt9533l9030o98wcu430 · Ukraine’s Incursion Into Russia Flips the Script on Putin. The reality of 130,000 displaced Russians and a chaotic official response may begin to puncture the official line that Russia is steadily heading toward victory.
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To opposition-minded politicians, including some of the few remaining inside Russia, Ukraine’s incursion has offered a rare chance to puncture the Kremlin’s narrative that Russia is steadily heading toward victory.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · rSotpoends5hi0cl19mc7hwg156hhu4f4nJ7 28u8toist1229g47f96ct7f · Should Ukraine act like Israel in the time of war.Delays and restrictions weakened Ukrainian Army and the country's economic and military potential.Ukraine’s Kursk offensive appears to have been a major surprise for Ukraine’s Western partners who now support it. There would have no green light to such operation in advance.
rSotpoends5hi0cl19mc7h8g156hhu4f4077m28f8thi261229g47f96ct7f · #UkraineAlert – “Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has succeeded in demonstrating that surprise is still possible on the modern battlefield,” writes Mykola Bielieskov.“This is a significant achievement that underlines the skill and competence of the Ukrainian military.”
Published by Vladimir Melamed · pooSdnerstc7033wl3l3c0c0 7tcgfa827794J9n15to6435si0tmmfu118a · There should not have been the West imposed restrictions to use the long-range weapons and aviation for the Ukrainian counteroffensive operations.
oSenrpostdm81uaiaaut7ih538i2m1i5m6hg7au68lmgc1318fcl01lgfgum · #UkraineAlert – “Now that the Ukrainian military has crossed the last of Putin’s red lines and invaded Russia without sparking World War III, there are no more excuses for restricting Kyiv’s ability to defend itself,” writes Peter Dickinson.
The Ukrainian army’s advance into Russia has profound implications for perceptions of the war. It directly challenges the widespread belief that Russia’s invasion has reached a stalemate and can no longer be decided on the battlefield. Crucially, it also exposes the emptiness of Vladimir Putin’s red lines and the folly of the West’s emphasis on escalation management.
Ukrainian combat forces conduct military operations in the Russian territory.
Institute for the Study of War reports:
Geolocated footage and Russian claims indicate that Ukrainian forces continued rapid advances further into Kursk Oblast on August 8, and Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometers from the international border with Sumy Oblast. Ukrainian forces most certainly do not control all of the territory within the maximalist extent of Russian claims about Ukrainian advances in Kursk Oblast
Memory in Action: Embracing the Past for the Future
Published by Vladimir Melamed · otpnodsSre7u3fu3 t4m61024g5cmg6g4m797a31ctw8his4743unhh0Jo13 · Units of the Ukrainian Army are waging combat operations in the Russian territory
otpnodsSre7u3fu36t4m61024g5cmg6g4m797a31ca78hi647436hhh05013 · Vladimir Putin is embarrassed by Ukraine’s incursion into Russia.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · noesrdotSpa132uctfia584f4908m3g1m1f5m141t10hl5tg3m211t9ml1h1 · Simple language understood by voters may unsaddle the Trump campaign. It was the word 'weird' that distinguished and as they say propelled Walz up to VP nomination
noesrdotSpa132uctfia584f4908m3g1m1f5m141t10hl5tg3h211t9ml1h1 · Tim Walz’s candidacy for the coveted Vice-Presidential slot on the Democratic ticket was propelled into being by a single word: “weird.” “These are weird people on the other side,” he said of Republicans, two days after Joe Biden dropped out of the Presidential race. Out of nowhere, it seemed that the former high-school teacher and football coach might have solved a riddle that had bedevilled the Democrats for nearly a decade.
Published by Vladimir Melamed · persdoSnot8151hg553g0tf6c4u05a9umiu3c18f096if591h03lahfh0fm4 ·
Fight Trump with his own weapon
Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a former high school teacher and National Guard member, as her running mate.
persdoSnot8151hg553g0tf6c4u05a9umiu3c18f096if297h03lahfh0fm4 · Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a former high school teacher and National Guard member, as her running mate. Walz brings Midwestern appeal to the Democratic ticket and a plain-spoken way of talking about Donald Trump. Here's a look at the new vice-presidential candidate. https://nyti.ms/3WUVNBz
The largest prisoner swap since the Cold War
Published by Vladimir Melamed · tnporeoSdsuut49uusf65ll1393w100f 97o0hc1Ju97cuun3hf2mt2018l6 · It is only one man whom Putin needed, namely the FSB spy, colonel Vadim Krasikov, convicted assassin of the Chechen decident. He was held in a German prison for life. Germany was reluctant to release him. As Chancellor Scholz said it to Biden: "I will do it for you."
tnporeoSdsuu449uuff65ll1393m100f897h0hc11u97c5u63hf2mt2018l6 · The eight Russians who returned home as part of a prisoner swap were convicted on charges including murder and espionage. Putin greeted them on the tarmac of a Moscow airport as heroes.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-hackers-smugglers-and-spies-released-in-prisoner-swap-d97105b4?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawEaB15leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQbbWvpyE8YsEHcmGJD4RGPpbl8sEp9QsGGMhng2ZzAuh2ozEb4Db24IbQ_aem_J9MJR6MNafu-elA3Vq-d2g
Reuters is live now.
snootredpSf9952m3u11i27i8a65c6i7tfm4202a808047hcf3h73f61icmg · LIVE: Joe Biden greets prisoners released from Russia US President Joe Biden greets prisoners released from Russia upon their arrival in the United States.Russia freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-US Marine Paul Whelan as part of the biggest prisoner exchange of its kind since the end of the Cold War.The White House said the US had negotiated the trade with Russia, Germany and three other countries.The deal, negotiated in secrecy for more than a year, involved 24 prisoners, including 16 moving from Russia to the West and eight prisoners held in the West being sent back to Russia.
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Some seven hour earlier Putin met the exchanged Russian operatives
Reuters was live.
· LIVE: Russian prisoners released in swap arrive in Moscow Russian prisoners released in an international exchange arrive in Moscow. The landmark prisoner swap is more than two years in the making, involving secret talks and complex diplomacy involving Germany, Russia and the United States, and other nations, which all had divergent interests.
· From Wall Street Journal Opinion : Israel has a right to defend itself, but more than that it has the right and ample cause to defeat the terrorists who won’t let it live in peace.
VM: Israel has reached its peak of geo-political and military rein in the Middle East, the war with Hamas evolved into a broad targeting of the Hamas military and political leaders. Owing to the ongoing military operations in Gaza, the assassinations become almost a routine. Geo-political situation with regard to other Arab nations and Iran is favorable for Israel.
· The historic prisoner swap that resulted in the release of US journalist Evan Gershkovich and 15 others was made possible by a personal promise German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made to US President Joe Biden
a modern american political saga: human and politicalfactors
biden -trump-hariss: from the debate to the address from the oval office and the new nomination
Chronology or countdown:
July 24, 2024: President Biden, address from the Oval Office: "He passes the torch"
Our comment: nicely put, but it was not the only reason https://www.facebook.com/reel/1016349656563720
“By surrendering the power that he once hoped to keep,” writes David Frum, “Biden condemned by contrast the predecessor who clung to the power he’d lost”
In his address to explain why he was relinquishing power, the president marked himself as a modern Cincinnatus—and his Republican rival as a new Catiline.
From the Atlantic:
The Trump campaign was engineered in every way to beat Joe Biden. Now it must be completely reinvented, Tim Alberta writes.
Alberta spent months talking with Trump’s campaign managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who said they were readying contingency plans and studying the weaknesses of would-be alternatives, beginning with Vice President Kamala Harris—should Biden drop out of the race. “By the time of the debate, however, they believed that Democrats’ window had all but closed. Even in the immediate aftermath—as Democratic officials openly called for Biden to quit—Wiles and LaCivita were betting on the status quo,” Alberta writes. “They know that from the moment they partnered with Trump, everything they intended for this campaign—the messaging, the advertising, the microtargeting, the ground game, the mail pieces, the digital engagement, the social-media maneuvers—was designed to defeat Joe Biden. Even the selection of Ohio’s Senator J. D. Vance as Trump’s running mate, campaign officials acknowledged, was something of a luxury meant to run up margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a nail-biter.”
At 59, Harris, should she become the nominee, will have no trouble keeping up with Trump on the campaign trail or the debate stage, Alberta writes. “At the very least, Trump’s lieutenants realize, Harris’s promotion will provide a desperately needed jolt to Democrats nationwide in the form of fundraising, volunteerism, and enthusiasm.”
“The mentality of this Trump campaign, LaCivita once told me, is to spend every day on offense. The team wants to shape the pace and substance of every news cycle and force Democrats to react, ensuring that key battles are fought on the GOP’s chosen terrain,” Alberta continues at the link in our bio. “It worked so well that Biden was ruined before his party’s convention. Now the Trump operation is vowing to destroy Harris—if, in fact, she becomes the nominee—in much the same way. And yet, for a campaign that went to bed Saturday believing that it would dictate the terms of the election every day until November 5, Sunday brought an unfamiliar feeling of powerlessness.”
July 20, 2024
President Joe Biden says he’s ready to return to the campaign trail next week, even as a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers called for him to step aside.
July 20, 2024
The Atlantic:
“Trumpian populism is an expression of political and cultural allegiance, rather than an actual program of government helping workers improve their relative standard of living,” David A. Graham writes.
“Trump and his new running mate are adept at presenting one set of elites as a scapegoat to the non-wealthy—and using that to aid a different clique of elites.”
On July 20, 2024 The New York Times wrote:
News Analysis: The seeds of President Biden’s reaction to his party’s crisis of confidence in him were planted years ago. Biden is still bitter about feeling pushed out of the 2016 race by Democratic elites in favor of Hillary Clinton, according to people close to him.
July 19, 2024, Bloomberg Politics:
Nearly every major figure in modern Democratic politics, save Biden, has signaled the president should rethink his determination to stay in the race.
July 18, 2024, The New York Time:
President Biden is appearing to accept the idea that he may not be able to win in November and may have to drop out of the race, according to people close to him. One person warned that Biden had not yet made up his mind.
July 18, 2024, The Atlantic:
“As Donald Trump prepares to accept his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination tonight,” writes Ronald Brownstein, “Democrats remain trapped in a stalemate that could ease his return to the White House”
July 18, 2024, Bloomberg Politics:
While Donald Trump was getting ready to address a mostly unified Republican Party tonight, Biden’s inner circle was trying to hold back a collapse of Democratic support.
July 18, 2024, Reuters:
A federal appeals court blocked President Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.
July 18, 2024, Reuters:
Exclusive: US President Joe Biden is working toward a decision on whether to stay in the presidential race that is good for the country, Senator John Hickenlooper told @Reuters, while stopping short of saying he should step aside
July 17, 2024, The New York Times:
J.D. Vance accepts Republican nomination for Vice President
In other words, Vance started building official cult of Trump
July 17, 2024, AP, Bloomberg Politics:
President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of his speech to UnidosUS conference.
Biden’s struggles played out against scenes from the GOP convention.
July 17, 2024, Bloomberg Politics:
California Representative Adam Schiff, the front-runner in the the state’s US Senate race, called Wednesday for Joe Biden to quit the presidential race.
July 17, 2024, Bloomberg Politics:
To stabilize his reelection bid, President Joe Biden has veered to the left, looking to bolster progressive support by floating proposals to erase medical debt, cap rent increases and impose sweeping restraints on the Supreme Court.
July 16, 2024, The New York Times:
Breaking News: The DNC aims to push President Biden toward the nomination next week, even as Democrats remain split over his candidacy.
July 15, 2024, AP:
President Biden briefly speaks about Vance nomination for VP:
"He is a clone of Trump on the issues"
July 14, 2024, The Atlantic, Mr. Leibovic writes:
"It is now obvious that Biden has in no way internalized the disaster toward which he is defiantly ambling—or, more to the point, toward which he is leading his party and his country," Leibovic was wrong, it was he who failed to internalize and analyze
July 14, 2024, Foreign Policy:
The free press should consider it an obligation to refocus with energy and persistence on existential questions regarding Trump’s reelection, not solely on Biden’s age, columnist Howard W. French writes.
July 13, 2024, The New York Times:
President Biden condemned the shooting incident at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. "We cannot allow for this to be happening," Biden said. "We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this.”
July 13, 2024, Reuters:
Gunfire erupted at a Donald Trump rally, sparking panic in the crowd and spattering the Republican presidential candidate with blood, before he emerged and defiantly pumped his fist in the air before being ushered to a waiting car
July 11, 2024, Foreign Policy:
Biden’s long-term approach in Ukraine requires greater coordination between arms of government in the United States—otherwise progress could be undone with a change in power, Eric Ciaramella writes.
Editorial Notes
Awareness vs. Historical Accuracy
Awareness vs. Historical Accuracy: we cannot understand the History of the Holocaust without historical truthfulness.
A film: The Tattooist of Auschwitz is controversial, but is historical accuracy more important than awareness?
Authors and filmmakers should not be shielded from criticism because they 'raise awareness' of the Holocaust. If untruthful and historically is off the track of reality the awareness and education are situated on the formal side, on statistical side. The 'happy stories' and happiness thereafter serve at the pleasure of trivialization devaluation of day-to-day hellness of the Holocaust. Truthfulness to the historical relevance on the contrary builts conscious understanding and lasting memory.
Films Son of Saul and The Zone of Interest are the rare exceptions from the mainstream.
How Do You Make a Movie About the Holocaust?
With “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/magazine/movies-holocaust-zone-of-interest.html?smid=em-share
A Laszlo Nemes film Son of Saul, 2015. Languages: French, German, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Polish
