Tag: genetics
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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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Some Reflections – Harry Potter
(This article was originally written in August, 2020.) It was not long ago when I was watching the Harry Potter films, and no great period of time has passed since I had taken an ingenuous pleasure viewing them. The leading character of the series, Harry Potter, was played by Daniel Radcliffe. Radcliffe is of half-Jewish…
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The Menace of the Under-Man
(This article was originally written in April, 2020.) During the last few months, a book has engaged my attention, and following my first full reading of it I have been impelled to spend a considerable amount of time reviewing the contents of it. Some while ago I had read certain parts of the book online.…