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This week we're traveling back to Victorian England with the Limehouse Golem! Join us for a discussion of handwriting analysis, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Dan Leno, Marx in London, and more! Sources: Background: Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limehouse_Golem Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_limehouse_golem IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4733640/ Upbeat Entertainment, Behind the Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0nH97gn7Y Handwriting Analysis: Jennifer L. Mnookin, "Scripting Expertise: The History of Handwriting Identification Evidence and the Judicial Construction of Reliability," Virginia Law Review 87:8 (December 2001): 1723-1845. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1073905 Douglas Grant, "Handwriting Analysis and the Police Officer," Police Journal 17:3 (July-September 1944): 203-211. Randall McGowen, "From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution," Past & Present 165 (Nov. 1999): 107-140. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651286 R.U. Piper, "The Laws of Evidence and the Scientific Investigation of Handwriting," The American Law Register 27:5, New Series Vol. 18 (May 1879): 273-291. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3304164 C. Ainsworth Mitchell, "Handwriting and its Value as Evidence," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 71: 3673 (April 13, 1923): 373-384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41356145 Anna Lvovsky, "The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise," Harvard Law Review 130:8 (June 2017): 1995-2081. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44865645 Becky Little, "What Type of Criminal Are You? 19th-Century Doctors Claimed to Know by Your Face," History (8 August 2019). https://www.history.com/news/born-criminal-theory-criminology The Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Macabre London, Ratcliffe Highway Murders: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macabre-london-podcast/id1180202350 The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Thames Police Museum: http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html "Horror and Hysteria: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders," British Newspaper Archive Blog, https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/ Karl Marx in London: "Take a Tour of Karl Marx's London," Penguin Random House: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/karl-marx-london-map.html Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, "Karl Marx's Life in London and Entry Into Active Politics," Great Courses Daily: https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/karl-marxs-life-in-london-and-entry-into-active-politics/ Solomon Bloom, "Karl Marx and the Jews," Jewish Social Studies 4, 1 (1942) Dennis Fischman, "The Jewish Question About Marx," Polity 21, 4 (1989) Sander Gilman, "Karl Marx and the Secret Language of Jews," Modern Judaism 4, 3 (1984) Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question," 1843. Full text available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ Dan Leno: Dan Leno, Dan Leno, Hys Booke: A Volume of Frivolities Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical Anecdotal, and Nonsensical (London: Greening & Co., 1899). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HGoqAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=5Os4N_GvX3&sig=IlBd7dZrKUu1r6UCXq1EnannJV4 J. Hickory Wood, Dan Leno (London: Methuen & Co., 1905). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZrdYGrPAHOQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=OE_QwxwaZ0&sig=adzACynIBodszVds7MWZuWU_Cd4 "Dan Leno -- Mrs. Kelly (1901)" https://youtu.be/ms-J7g0blVA "Dan Leno - The Tower of London (1901)" YouTube https://youtu.be/_HMpwzgRsho Wiki: "Songs, sketches and monologues of Dan Leno," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs,_sketches_and_monologues_of_Dan_Leno Peter Bailey, "Conspiracies of Meaning: Music-Hall and the Knowingness of Popular Culture," Past & Present 144 (August 1994): 138-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651146 Laurence Senelick, "Politics as Entertainment: Victorian Music-Hall Songs," Victorian Studies 19:2 (December 1975): 149-180. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3825910 The Dan Leno Project: http://www.danleno.co.uk/ David Cottis, "Leno, Dan," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2005). James Hogg, "Leno, Dan [real name George Wild Galvin]," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (6 January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34497 Neil Armstrong, "Frank Skinner on Britain's first ever stand-up comedian" The Telegraph (3 December 2015). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12021249/Frank-Skinner-on-Britains-first-ever-stand-up-comedian.html "The Birth of the Music Hall Tony Lidington, Dan Leno & Frank Skinner," YouTube Promenade Promotions https://youtu.be/KYEf6VSQBq0
Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the United States, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his cleverly entitled study, “Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads.” This episode originally aired March 20, 2015.
The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his latest study, cleverly entitled "Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads." The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism Prof. Renee Levine Melammed, a senior faculty member at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shares with us her insights from her momentous study about the history of crypto-Jewish women in Spain under the Inquisition. Music: Radiohead - JustHaBiluim - Hazman Ha'acharonMGMT - Time To Pretend
Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism
Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical personage or institution. Nor are they purely interpretive works in which the author’s voice is foregrounded. In this conversation with Princeton University historian Anson Rabinbach, we learn what methodological, but also what moral challenges faced him and coeditor Sander Gilman in crafting The Third Reich Sourcebook (University of California Press, 2013). We learn how they selected and how they decided to preface the voices of Nazi ideologues, politicians, fellow travellers and victims. With 411 primary documents that take the reader systematically through the key cultural fields and criminal activities of the regime, the Sourcebook represents a major engagement with the Nazi worldview by two leading intellectual historians. They found this worldview less uniform and internally consistent than others have surmised. Beyond the exaltation of the German Volk and the demonization of Jewry, much was up for grabs, including the epistemological framework meant to ground these core concepts. In this interview, Rabinbach paints a picture of German intellectual life under the Third Reich that was contradictory and complex, yet above all impoverished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical personage or institution. Nor are they purely interpretive works in which the author’s voice is foregrounded. In this conversation with Princeton University historian Anson Rabinbach, we learn what methodological, but also what moral challenges faced him and coeditor Sander Gilman in crafting The Third Reich Sourcebook (University of California Press, 2013). We learn how they selected and how they decided to preface the voices of Nazi ideologues, politicians, fellow travellers and victims. With 411 primary documents that take the reader systematically through the key cultural fields and criminal activities of the regime, the Sourcebook represents a major engagement with the Nazi worldview by two leading intellectual historians. They found this worldview less uniform and internally consistent than others have surmised. Beyond the exaltation of the German Volk and the demonization of Jewry, much was up for grabs, including the epistemological framework meant to ground these core concepts. In this interview, Rabinbach paints a picture of German intellectual life under the Third Reich that was contradictory and complex, yet above all impoverished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical personage or institution. Nor are they purely interpretive works in which the author’s voice is foregrounded. In this conversation with Princeton University historian Anson Rabinbach, we learn what methodological, but also what moral challenges faced him and coeditor Sander Gilman in crafting The Third Reich Sourcebook (University of California Press, 2013). We learn how they selected and how they decided to preface the voices of Nazi ideologues, politicians, fellow travellers and victims. With 411 primary documents that take the reader systematically through the key cultural fields and criminal activities of the regime, the Sourcebook represents a major engagement with the Nazi worldview by two leading intellectual historians. They found this worldview less uniform and internally consistent than others have surmised. Beyond the exaltation of the German Volk and the demonization of Jewry, much was up for grabs, including the epistemological framework meant to ground these core concepts. In this interview, Rabinbach paints a picture of German intellectual life under the Third Reich that was contradictory and complex, yet above all impoverished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical personage or institution. Nor are they purely interpretive works in which the author’s voice is foregrounded. In this conversation with Princeton University historian Anson Rabinbach, we learn what methodological, but also what moral challenges faced him and coeditor Sander Gilman in crafting The Third Reich Sourcebook (University of California Press, 2013). We learn how they selected and how they decided to preface the voices of Nazi ideologues, politicians, fellow travellers and victims. With 411 primary documents that take the reader systematically through the key cultural fields and criminal activities of the regime, the Sourcebook represents a major engagement with the Nazi worldview by two leading intellectual historians. They found this worldview less uniform and internally consistent than others have surmised. Beyond the exaltation of the German Volk and the demonization of Jewry, much was up for grabs, including the epistemological framework meant to ground these core concepts. In this interview, Rabinbach paints a picture of German intellectual life under the Third Reich that was contradictory and complex, yet above all impoverished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, the voice of a single historical personage or institution. Nor are they purely interpretive works in which the author’s voice is foregrounded. In this conversation with Princeton University historian Anson Rabinbach, we learn what methodological, but also what moral challenges faced him and coeditor Sander Gilman in crafting The Third Reich Sourcebook (University of California Press, 2013). We learn how they selected and how they decided to preface the voices of Nazi ideologues, politicians, fellow travellers and victims. With 411 primary documents that take the reader systematically through the key cultural fields and criminal activities of the regime, the Sourcebook represents a major engagement with the Nazi worldview by two leading intellectual historians. They found this worldview less uniform and internally consistent than others have surmised. Beyond the exaltation of the German Volk and the demonization of Jewry, much was up for grabs, including the epistemological framework meant to ground these core concepts. In this interview, Rabinbach paints a picture of German intellectual life under the Third Reich that was contradictory and complex, yet above all impoverished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that, based on their clinical experiment, the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Whites were given a single oral dose of the drug, then asked to complete the Implicit Association Test, a reliable measure of racial prejudice. Relative to the placebo, those who were given Propranolol experienced no indicators of implicit racial bias. Though the researchers warned of the danger in biological research being used to make a “more moral society,” they also asserted “such research raises the tantalizing possibility that our unconscious racial attitudes could be modulated using drugs.” Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine, citing the study, asked the question that frames our project: Is racism becoming a mental illness? My new book project traces the genealogies of race and racism as psychopathological categories from mid-19th century Europe and the United States up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford. Using historical, archival, and content analysis, we provide a rich account for how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’, including anthropology, medicine, and biology, used race as a means of defining psychopathology at the very beginning of modern clinical psychiatry and subsequently how these claims about race and madness became embedded within claims of those disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. Finally, we describe the contemporary shift in explaining racism occurring since the end of World War II – from that of a social, political, and cultural consequence to that of a pathological byproduct.
The newest buzzword for globalization is cosmopolitanism. As with many such reuses of older concepts, cosmopolitanism has a complex history, specifically in the German-speaking lands. It is this history and its relationship to the history of German Jewry from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust that will be examined — in a global and perhaps even cosmopolitan manner. (This paper was given on 2 October 2013 at the German Historical Institute London.)