Tag: Jews

  • “Stop Your Cruel Oppression of the Jews”: Reading a Cartoon

    “Stop Your Cruel Oppression of the Jews”: Reading a Cartoon

    When I present my work on the Jewish migration, I like using this cartoon in order to illustrate the traditional thesis that the Jewish migration from the Pale of Settlement was caused by the pogroms. It shows a Jewish town, on that right, that was hit by a pogrom, and a stream of Jewish refugees…

  • The King is Dead, Long Live the… Wait, is it Good for the Jews?

    The King is Dead, Long Live the… Wait, is it Good for the Jews?

    “Is it Good for the Jews?” is a generations-old criterion for making sense of world events. Wars, revolutions, natural disasters, something colossal has happened, at the bottom line we want to know the only thing that matters – is it, or is it not? For the occasion of the abdication of Dutch Queen Beatrix and…