Tag: anthropology
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Who Is a Jew? – Max Beerbohm, Detlev Bronk, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Robert Sussman, and Jerry Hirsch
Max Beerbohm Beerbohm was a writer and artist who was famous as a caricaturist for Britain’s Vanity Fair magazine. Beerbohm was suspected of being a Jew by some of his peers and by the poet Ezra Pound, but his Jewishness is not publicly admitted. Max Beerbohm’s father, Julius, is said to have been “Lithuanian-born”, a…
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Who Is a Jew? – Matthew Perry, Alfred Kroeber, Boris Johnson, Bruce Stillman, and Daniel Hill
Matthew Perry Though I am not certain that Perry, the commodore whose expedition opened Japan to Western ideas and trade in 1853, was Jewish, I have mentioned him as a Jew in my article on Hirohito. In either case his connections with world Jewry and international Jewish finance appear incontrovertible. Commodore Perry was at least…
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Who Is a Jew? – Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Nabokov
Anton Chekhov in 1882 The writer Anton Chekhov’s eyes in his younger years strike me as eyes which one often observes in Jewish females, besides the shape of the face, which is likewise difficult to describe (the lower half of the face, the mandible and the cheekbones in particular). In later years of his life…
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Self-Studying on the Internet
(This article was originally written in October 2019.) You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much to this blog for a while. You might be curious why. Well, this is partly because no ideas for posts have come to mind that I haven’t already discussed in previous articles. I have been spending much time…