tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post2995579148110167783..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Holocaust History Versus Holocaust MemorialIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-78710031232270084832010-04-15T14:30:03.808-04:002010-04-15T14:30:03.808-04:00>There is a double standard in history. Israel ...>There is a double standard in history. Israel is subject to a different set of rules. <br /><br />Ironically you agree with Krochmal.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-32841261044421599092010-04-15T10:17:35.309-04:002010-04-15T10:17:35.309-04:00By now you probably have a collection of my posts ...By now you probably have a collection of my posts on your door. :)<br /><br />I think it is important to distinguish between seeing parallels to the present and using the present as context. For example I have, in my classes, compared Louis XVI to George W. Bush as someone who was well meaning, but not particularly intelligent and who got completely blindsided by events that he was not equipped Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-51438529116817565082010-04-15T09:34:57.249-04:002010-04-15T09:34:57.249-04:00This is a brilliant post, Izgad. I think I will pr...This is a brilliant post, Izgad. I think I will print it out and put it up on my office door.<br /><br />One thing I don't agree with, though, is whether it makes sense to learn lessons from history. When I tell my students about the kind of ideological split that brought Spain to a bloody Civil War, I am surely hoping that they will notice the similarities between what was going on in Spain Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-26444673863773587912010-04-14T17:45:48.870-04:002010-04-14T17:45:48.870-04:00As a rationalist I am committed to seeking out and...As a rationalist I am committed to seeking out and formulating universal laws as best I can. This is a task that I do not expect to be completely successful in, but do not come to me until I have completely failed at something. Until then let me play my rationalist “game” to see where it gets us. <br />I may not be able to formulate laws of history, thus history is not a science. I can still Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-75092020783757073662010-04-14T17:26:42.085-04:002010-04-14T17:26:42.085-04:00but you then equate the history of science with th...but you then equate the history of science with the history of K'lal Yisroel. A major example of Havdala obliviousness.<br /><br />There is a double standard in history. Israel is subject to a different set of rules. <br /><br />Please don't tell me that you agree with Sartres aphorism that "had history not given us the Jew the anti-Semite would have invented him" i.e. that The Bray of Fundiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552912825252813495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-22233102260492965562010-04-14T12:37:05.757-04:002010-04-14T12:37:05.757-04:00In many respects, my religious life is an extensio...In many respects, my religious life is an extension of my “professional” life. History is not just a job for me; it is a method of rational analysis, through which I relate to the world of human events. God is the foundation and guarantor of my reason. The use of my reason as a study history is the chief way in which I serve and recognize God. Religious ritual, in turn, serves as a vehicle for myIzgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-26533957831349218952010-04-14T12:27:48.593-04:002010-04-14T12:27:48.593-04:00If you, big proffesional that yiou are, discern no...If you, big proffesional that yiou are, discern no difference between flat-earthers and Holocaust deniers then you have learned nothing from ALL your historical studies.<br /><br />Bad abuse of Havdala consciousness as you have neatly compartmentalized your professional and religious life. For a frum yid historical study and analysis ought to be a mode of avodas haShem.<br /><br />ז זְכֹר The Bray of Fundiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552912825252813495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-59228020548590817062010-04-13T10:22:51.859-04:002010-04-13T10:22:51.859-04:00I think your best point was made early on: The Fou...I think your best point was made early on: The Fourth of July, once the anniversary of an uprising by a nascent democratic society against a repressive Empire and the subsequent founding of the most successful and freedom-loving country in history is now an excuse to have a barbeque and shoot off fireworks, with no deeper a significance than Superbowl Sunday.<br />Yom HaShoah differs at this Garnel Ironheartnoreply@blogger.com