User:Sfrantzman
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Seth J. Frantzman is a Phd student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a scholar, politician, social activist, free market liberal, conservative, reviewer of books and man of letters.
His recent employers include Washington Mutual Bank, the Shalem Center's Hebraic Political Studies, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the editor and founder of the online journal and weekly newsletter Terra Incognita (Terra Incognita Journal) [1]
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[edit] Young life 1980-87
Frantzman grew up in Maine, in a back woods camp where his family lived off the land, producing much of their own food(except meat) and storing it in a Greenhouse. Solar cells were used for electricity for a few things but light came from gas lamps. Outhouses were used. These camps are now known as the Little Lyford Camps, which are a historic site on the AMC trail in Maine.
[edit] School days 1987-1994
Frantzman was in Southwest Harbor in 1987, in 1988 he was in Conneticut and in 1989 he was in third grade in M.D.E.S)Mount Desert Island Elementary School), Jim Ashmore(peg leg pete) presiding as principle. School was tough for an outsider who had skipped first and second grade due to home schooling. He was suspended in 1992 for stealing trophies.
[edit] Verde Valley School 1993-1996
Frantzman was sent to Verde Valley School in Sedona Arizona, a semi-infamous school that was founded in the 1940s to educate students about Native Americans and the outdoors. In the late 1990s it attracted a lot of hippies and teachers who had been students returned to teach there. After an incident with a fellow student, Regan Farquar and a teacher Dan, Frantzman was dismissed by the headmaster Saul Hillel Benjamin in December of 1997.
[edit] The Orme School 1997-1998
Frantzman went to the Orme School, founded as a ranch by the Orme family. After playing football in the fall of 1997 he was dismissed from this school in the spring of 1998 after leaving school for a week with his Rav4 and his friend's Martinique and Hiedi Peterson.
[edit] Cordes Junction 1998
Frantzman developed his property at Cordes Junction in the summer of 1998, he was employed at Wallmart and eventually moved to Maine for a period where he worked with his father, Joel Frantzman, also taking odd jobs as a dish washer, prep cook and working tennis courts.
[edit] The University of Arizona Fall 1998
Frantzman lived with a man who made his own guns and eventually took over the La Siesta Apartments in South Tucson which he managed for Janet Case and her daughter Sarah Blackburn. He did not suceed in his first semester of studies but in his second semester he took 21 credits and began to find his calling as a historian.
[edit] The College Republicans 1999-2001
Frantzman became involved deeply in Republican politics in South Arizona. He founded a College Republicans chapter at U of A in 1999, after Mike Coatny had destroyed it a year before. He became involved with the Pima County Republican Club and Tucson Republican Women, where he received an award as a 'top youth leader'. He used the club to run for student Senate and served as a ASUA senator from 2000-2001. He visited the Green Valley republican club, served as a delegate to the republican party in Arizona, ran a Students for John Mccain chapter and later Students for Bush in 2000. He relinquished control of the the club to Manuel Espinoza. He served as an aide to Congressman Jim Kolbe and on the campaign of Bob Walcott.
[edit] Phi Kappa Psi 2001-2003
Frantzman, along with Adeel Elahi, re-founded the Arizona Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi(originally founded 1947)in 2001 and brought it back to a chapter of 80 men. He was involved as Housing Corp President in the purchase of a House with Jerry Nelson's support in 2002 for the chapter on University Blvd.
[edit] Mortgage industry 2002-2004
Frantzman spent the summer of 1999 in Russia. In the spring of 2002 he was in Italy on an abroad program. He resided in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Florence, Italy. In the summer of 2002 he obtained a Real Estate license at the Hogan school of Real Estate and then went to work at La Carona De Tucson Realty. He failed as a realor and took a job as a telemarketer with Allied Home Mortgage and its owner Francisco De Bosque. He then worked as a Processor under Eric Painter, also at Allied. He moved from there in 2003 to Washington Mutual Bank where he worked under M.J. Mcee in Tucson, doing home loans. Although he was moving up in this business he decided it was time for something new.
[edit] Israel June 2004-present
Frantzman began at an Ulpan at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from there began an M.A program in the fall of 2004. He copleted his M.A and graduated Summa Cum Laude in the spring of 2006. Since then he has been working on a Phd at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Frantzman is a traveler and has been to India, South Africa and Eastern Europe. He has reviewed over 1,000 books on Amazon and works as a reviewer part time and as a writer. He published a Frantzman Weekly newsletter.
[edit] Post Humanism and critiquer of modernity
Frantzman has developed the philosophy of Post-Humanism which he critiques as the bane of the western world. He is opposed to Moral Relativism and has dedicated many writings to critique of histories of South Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ideologically Frantzman has remained a conservative, but also a passionate libertarian in the footsteps of Ayn Rand and Edward Abbey. He has a deep fascination with Richard Nixon and Josef Stalin but his true passion is the study of minorities and diverse peoples such as Native Americans, Assyrian Christians, Crimean Kairites and other interesting people and interesting histories of obscure subjects. His heroes include John Gurang of the South Sudan Liberation Army, Ariel Sharon, the former Shah of Iran, Jan Smuts, Atal Vajpayee, Richard Mienertzhagen, Charles Martel, Don Juan, Roland, Thaksin Shinuat, Pinochet and Vicente Fox.
[edit] References and published material
Frantzman wrote his M.A thesis on Arab Christians in Palestine, entitled The Strength of Weakness: The Arab Christians in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 war
He worked as a columnist for the Tucson Weekly.
He was a frequent contributer to the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
His latest work, a column at the Jerusalem Post can be located here. [2] Also, [3]
A similar article in Middle East Quarterly, [www.meforum.org/article/1886]
His work has appeared in the Palestine Exploration Fund's Quarterly Journal (Exigesis: General Gordon and the Holy Land) and the the Communal Societies Journal (The Holy Land and American Communes).
