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Fieldtrip to the International Center for Photography
I took my students to the International Center for Photography in Manhattan this morning to have a look at the Robert Capa exhibition “This is War! Robert Capa at Work.” With vintage prints, contact...
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National Archive (U.K.) Opens File on George Orwell
[h/t A.L.] You probably read about this a few weeks ago. Yet another news item I intended to blog about but I did not find the time. Maybe next week… George Orwell (KV 2/2699) This slim Security...
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Cuban Independent Libraries Need Your Help
[h/t to Friends of Cuban Libraries] The 2008 annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) begins this week in Anaheim, California. Three members of the ALA Council, Barbara Silverman,...
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Anarcho-Vandals Vs. Stalinist Shills
I was going to post something about the anarcho-vandal attack on the International Brigade memorial in San Francisco but Roland and Bob beat me to it. Plenty of comments by yours truly in Roland’s...
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Were the Jewish Partisans Stalinist Dupes?
[H/t to A.L. for bringing this to my attention. Above image of Jewish Partisans from Vilnius is from the Holocaust Research Project] Nazi hunter: Lithuania hunts ex-partisans, lets war criminals roam...
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Milan Kundera, Communist Informant?
Was anti-authoritarian novelist Milan Kundera a communist informant? Did he rat out Miroslav Dvoracek, a Czech spy for the West? The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes claims a team of...
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Never Again
[Holocaust Memorial in Paris, Pere Lachaise Cemetery] [Jewish resistance fighter] Visit the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation here. Blogs you should be reading: Contentious Centrist Flesh is...
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Samuel Kassow: Who Will Write Our History?
Trinity College History Professor Samuel Kassow discusses his recent work, Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto on C-SPAN 2′s “Book TV” program. Click...
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American Library Association (ALA) Candidates Speak on Cuban Library Issue
I received this press release from the Friends of Cuban Libraries: ALA Candidates Speak on Cuban Library Issue Sara Kelly Johns and Molly Raphael, candidates for ALA president, spoke on March 8 at the...
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