Dovid Katz

Dovid Katz

Dovid Katz (Yiddish: הירשע־דוד כ״ץ, also דוד קאַץ, הירשע־דוד קאַץ—Hirshe-Dovid Kats) (born 9 May 1956) is an American-born, Vilnius-based Yiddish scholar, author and educator, and cultural historian of Lithuanian Jewry (the Litvak heritage). In recent years, he has become a human rights defender specializing in contemporary legacies of the East European Holocaust. He is editor of the website DefendingHistory.com.

Early life and Yiddish Studies

Born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn into the Lithuanian-Jewish or Litvak family of the award-winning Yiddish and English poet Menke Katz,[1] Dovid Katz attended the Brooklyn day schools Hebrew Institute of Boro Park, East Midwood Jewish Day School,[2] and then, Yeshivah of Flatbush High School, where he led a student protest calling for the inclusion of Yiddish in American Hebrew day school curricula, and founded and edited the Yiddish-English student journal "Aleichem Sholem" (1972-1974).[3][4] He majored in linguistics at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1978, having studied concurrently at New York's Herzliah Yiddish Teachers' Seminary. He relocated to London in 1978 to work on a doctorate (completed in 1982) on the origins of the Semitic component in the Yiddish language at the University of London, where he won the John Marshall Medal in Comparative Philology (1980).[5]

In his early linguistic work, he began to argue for "continual transmission" of the Semitic component in Yiddish from ancient Hebrew through to Aramaic through to Yiddish, challenging the standard "text theory" that postulated entrance principally via religious texts later on.[6] He proposed novel reconstructions for parts of the proto-Yiddish vowel system,[7] modifications in the classification of Yiddish dialects,[8] and joined the school of Yiddish scholars that argues for a more easterly (Danube basin) origin of Yiddish over the western (Rhineland) hypothesis, bringing to the table Semitic component evidence; it was in that connection that he came across a thirteenth-century Hebrew and Aramaic prayerbook manuscript in the Bodleian that exhibited the vowel system he had earlier, in his thesis, reconstructed as underlying that of the Semitic component in Yiddish.[9]

Over the years he published papers, in Yiddish and English, on various "history of ideas" topics, including the role of Aramaic in Aramaic-Hebrew-Yiddish internal Ashkenazic trilingualism (he rejected the notion of a single fused Hebrew-hypen-Aramaic); medieval rabbinic disputes over Yiddish; rabbinic contributions to Yiddish dialectology; the importance for Yiddish linguistics of the German underworld language Rotwelsch; Christian studies in Yiddish; and the 19th century roots of religious Yiddishism, among others.[10]

For eighteen years (1978-1996) he taught Yiddish Studies at Oxford, building from scratch, sometimes single-handedly, the Oxford Programme in Yiddish. It grew in the 1980s and 1990s into an international program. His contributions include initiating a new four-week summer course[11] at four levels of language instruction (in 1982), the annual Stencl Lecture (from 1983),[12][13] annual winter symposiums (from 1985);[14] University of Oxford BA, MSt and MPhil options (from 1982), and a doctoral program (from 1984), these being concentrated in the University's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.[15] His former doctoral students are today professors of Yiddish inter alia at Indiana University (Bloomington) and Düsseldorf. He founded the series "Winter Studies in Yiddish" in English (vol. 1 appeared in 1987),[16] and "Oksforder yidish" (or "Oxford Yiddish"), entirely in Yiddish (vol. 1 appeared in 1990).[17] His posts, at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (renamed the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) were instructor and junior fellow (1978-1982), senior research fellow and director of Yiddish studies (1983-1994). In 1994 he founded the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and served as its research director until 1997.[18] He was Research Fellow at St. Antony's College Oxford from 1986 to 1997, and a member of the Modern Language Faculty's Graduate Studies Committee from 1984 to 1997.

After an initial trip to his ancestral Lithuania and Belarus in 1990 (during which he negotiated an agreement[19] enabling Lithuanian students to enroll in Oxford Jewish studies courses), Katz pioneered the mounting of in-situ post-Holocaust Yiddish dialectological and folkloristic expeditions in Eastern Europe. He focused on the "Lithuanian lands" (Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, etc.) and continues work on his Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish.[20] He has amassed thousands of hours of recorded interviews with "the last of the Yiddish Mohicans" in these regions but as far as is known has not succeeded to find a permanent home for the materials. In early 2013 he began posting clips from his interviews of Boro Park Yiddish speakers gleaned from his return trips to his native Brooklyn.[21]

His publications on Yiddish language include his "Grammar of the Yiddish Language" (London, 1987) and his book in Yiddish, "Tikney takones. Fragn fun yidisher stilistik" (Oxford, 1993),[22] both of which aimed to enhance the teaching of Yiddish as a vibrant language both spoken and for new literary and academic works, even if in (and for) small circles. In both works, he advocated a descriptivist stance, rejecting what he considered to be the excessive purism prevalent in the field. He also (controversially) championed the traditionalist variant of modern Yiddish orthography, and was the author of the "Code of Yiddish Spelling" (Oxford, 1992).[23] He twice founded and directed (one-time only) Yiddish teacher training programs: at Oxford, a one-year program in 1996, and at Vilnius, an intensive course in spring 2005.

For a nonspecialist English readership he wrote a history of the language and its culture, "Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish" (Basic Books 2004, revised edition with added academic apparatus, 2007), which attracted both acclaim and robust debate, particularly over his predictions of a vernacular future for Yiddish based in Haredi communities, and his contention that modern Hebrew could not replace the European-nuanced vibrancy of Yiddish.[24] For years he wrote regular columns for the Forverts (1990s), and in more recent years for the Algemeiner Journal.[25]

He is the author of a number of articles on Yiddish in encyclopedias (including The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe)[26][27] and book introductions, including the Yivo's reprint[28] of Alexander Harkavy's trilingual Yiddish-English-Hebrew dictionary.

After a year as visiting professor at Yale University (1998-1999), Katz relocated to Vilnius in 1999 in order to take up a new chair in Yiddish language, literature and culture at Vilnius University, and to found the university's Center for Stateless Cultures,[29] which he directed for its first two years. He had relocated his old Oxford Yiddish summer program to Vilnius a year earlier (summer 1998). In 2001, he founded the Vilnius Yiddish Institute at Vilnius University and remained its research director and primary instructor until 2010. His works on Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) culture include the folio volume "Lithuanian Jewish Culture" (Baltos lankos, Vilnius 2004, revised edition 2010), "Windows to a Lost Jewish Past: Vilna Book Stamps" (Versus aureus, Vilnius 2008), and "Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks" (International Cultural Program Center, Vilnius 2009).[30] In 2009 he directed the "Jewish Lithuania" program for Summer Literary Seminars in Vilnius. He has proposed "Litvak Studies"[31] as a potential program of study.

He began to write short stories in Yiddish following his father's death in 1991, and published three collections in book form in the 1990s under the nom de plume Heershadovid Menkes (Yiddish: הירשע־דוד מעינקעס—Hirshe-Dovid Meynkes): Eldra Don, 1992; The Flat Peak, 1993; Tales of the Misnagdim from Vilna Province, 1996. After experimenting with modern themes, he abandoned them for the vanished life of old Jewish Lithuania. Awards for his fiction include the Hirsh Rosenfeld Award (Canadian Jewish Congress, 1994), the Zhitlovsky Prize (Ikuf, 1996) and the most prestigious Yiddish literary award, the Manger Prize, in 1997. In 1994 he founded at Oxford the then sole literary monthly magazine in Yiddish, "Yiddish Pen"[32] and edited its first 27 issues.[33] It did not, however, usher in the scale of literary revival he had hoped for.

In 2001-2002 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Yiddish literature. Two translated anthologies of his short stories appeared in 2012, in English[34] and in German.[35]

Katz, taken aback by the poverty he found among the last aged Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe (many of them "flight survivors" who survived the war by fleeing to the Soviet Union, hence not eligible for aid under the narrow definition of "Holocaust survivor"), alerted the wider world to the issue in a 1999 op-ed[36] in the Forward, which was cited by Judge Edward R. Korman in the Swiss Banks settlement[37] in the U.S. District Court in 2004. Katz began to work closely with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) on these issues, and he helped inspire and inform the 2004 founding of the Survivor Mitzvah Project by a group based in Santa Monica, California.

In October 2012, he took part in the Channel 4 reality series "Jewish Mum of the Year" as one of the judging panel alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman and Richard Ferrer.[38] Most of the reviews of his own appearance judged it negatively.[39]

In June 2014, two articles in Tablet magazine focused on the recent history and status of Yiddish linguistics, including his own contributions.[40] Katz promptly responded (in Yiddish).[41]

He divides the year between Vilnius, Lithuania and his home in North Wales. A list of his books[42] and postings of selected articles[43] are available on his website.

Human rights activism

After observing the Vilnius scene for years, Dovid Katz began in 2008 to publicly challenge the "Double Genocide" theory of World War II and the accusations against Holocaust survivors who survived by joining the Jewish partisans. In a Rothschild Foundation London seminar in February that year he proposed the term "Holocaust Obfuscation" for an East European trend to downgrade the Holocaust into one of two purportedly equal genocides (without actually denying any deaths); he refined the term in a 2009 paper.[44] When, in May 2008, Lithuanian prosecutors launched investigations of two more elderly Holocaust survivors, Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky and Dr. Rachel Margolis, Katz embarked on a new activist phase of his life. He became a staunch advocate for the accused Holocaust survivors who were under investigation, and played a role in mobilizing the Western diplomatic community in Vilnius to support them. Results, achieved in partnership with Vilnius based diplomats, included a reception by the Irish ambassador for Ms. Brantsovsky, awarding her a certificate,[45] on 3 June 2008 (the same day the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was signed), and a certificate of merit[46] from the American ambassador. This was followed in August that year by a letter from nine NATO-member embassies[47] to Dr. Rachel Margolis in Rehovot, Israel, and, in 2010, by a letter from seven European ambassadors[48] that noted the legalization of swastikas that year, renewed Holocaust denial, and the attempts to "equalize" Nazi and Soviet crimes.

Professor Katz was apparently the first to publicly challenge the 2008 Prague Declaration in two May 2009 op-eds, in The Jewish Chronicle[49] and The Irish Times.[50] He subsequently contributed articles to The Guardian (in 2010),[51] Tablet Magazine (2010),[52] The Jerusalem Post (2011),[53] the London Jewish News (2012),[54] The Times of Israel (2012),[55] and other publications.[56] He has lectured on these issues at the Jewish National Fund in Adelaide, Australia (May 2011),[57] Lund University in Sweden (May 2010),[58] Monash University in Melbourne (June 2011),[59] Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux (March 2012),[60] Rutgers University (Nov 2008),[61] University of Pennsylvania (Nov 2008),[62] University of South Carolina at Columbia (March 2011),[63] the Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. (March 2011),[64] University of London (April 2009),[65] and Yeshiva University (March 2011),[66] among others.[67] His professorship at Vilnius University was terminated, after eleven years, in 2010.

In September 2009 Katz launched the openly partisan online journal HolocaustInTheBaltics.com which was renamed a year later DefendingHistory.com, and came to include contributions by several dozen authors;[68] it has sections on the regional glorification of local Nazi collaborators,[69] and the related "exotic tourism"[70] as well as Opinion,[71] Books,[72] Film[73] and History[74] sections. Over time, DefendingHistory has also become one of the addresses for resources in Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) affairs,[75] including culture, history, news, tourism and "dark tourism."

In 2012 he co-authored (with Danny Ben-Moshe) The Seventy Years Declaration,[76] signed on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference by 71 European parliamentarians (MPs and MEPs, including Conservatives and Liberals as well as Social Democrats and Labor, also—eight Lithuanian Social Democratic parliamentarians). He was invited to present it formally to Martin Schulz,[77] president of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg on March 14, 2012.[78]

Katz's work on the Holocaust in Lithuania (and related antisemitism issues) was among the subjects of a 2010 BBC world service program by Wendy Robbins,[79] and a 2012 Australian documentary film by Marc Radomsky and Danny Ben-Moshe.[80] He has participated in various public debates on these subjects,[81][82][83] and has publicly disagreed with Yale Professor Timothy D. Snyder on the related history, in a 2010 Guardian debate[84] preceding publication of Snyder's "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin", in a book review in East European Jewish Studies (2011),[85] and an open letter[86] during the controversy over the reburial with full honors[87] in 2012 of the 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister in Lithuania. He also engaged in public debate with the director of YIVO[88] and the Economist's Edward Lucas.[89][90]

His work in the field of Human rights has included on-site protest and monitoring of state-sanctioned city-center nationalist parades in Vilnius[91] and Kaunas[92] in Lithuania, and Waffen-SS parades[93] in the Latvian capital Riga, taking note also of anti-Polish, anti-Russian, anti-Roma and anti-gay signs, slogans and publications.[94] In 2013 he added an LGBT rights section[95] to Defending History. Twice, in 2010[96] and in 2011, he appeared in Budapest[97] to report on what he regarded as "sensationally absurd" trials of Holocaust historian and Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center's Israel office, on charges of "libel" leveled by a twice-convicted Nazi war criminal whom Dr. Zuroff had exposed. On the subject of free speech, he has been a vocal critic of Lithuania's 2010 law[98] forbidding the denial or trivialization of Soviet and Nazi genocide, which he believes, in agreement with Leonidas Donskis,[99] to constitute criminalization of debate. When the law was applied to a left-wing politician with whom he disagreed wholly on the 1991 events in question, Katz nevertheless felt it important to speak out for free speech,[100] and, in a reply to Rokas Grajauskas in Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review[101] made clear his view that objecting to Holocaust Obfuscation in no way signifies reluctance to expose Stalinist crimes.

In recent years, Katz has registered concern regarding purported policy shifts toward Holocaust Obfuscation and Double Genocide by the US State Department, in articles in the Tablet (2010),[102] The Guardian (2010)[103] Algemeiner Journal (2011),[104] Times of Israel (2012)[105] and a list of publications maintained on DefendingHistory.com.[106] He also spoke out regarding alliances binding the UK's Conservative Party with controversial East European right wing politics, in the Irish Times (2009),[107] The Guardian (2010), Jewish Chronicle (2010),[108] and the London Jewish News (2012).[109] Analogously, he challenged Israeli foreign policy on alleged acequiscence to Holocaust Obfuscation in return for diplomatic support, in venues including the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs,[110] the Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel and DefendingHistory.com.[111]

In the spring of 2011, Katz was Jan Randa Visiting Scholar at the Australian Center for Jewish Civilization (ACJC) at Monash University in Melbourne where he lectured on both Yiddish Studies and Holocaust issues. He has worked to define the new and "nuanced" elitist East European antisemitism and its success in attracting unsuspecting westerners to help provide political cover. He presented findings at Yale University[112] and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars[113] in 2011, and at a December 13, 2012 ISGAP event at Fordham University[114] in New York City. He participated in the April 18, 2013 seminar on "Red equals Brown issues"[115] in Berlin, and a May 27–28, 2013 conference in Riga on Holocaust commemoration in post-communist Eastern Europe.[116]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/menke/menke_books.htm Menke Katz
  2. ↑ http://emhds.org/about/history East Midwood Jewish Day School
  3. ↑ http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_periodicals.htm#Sholem "Aleichem Sholem"
  4. ↑ See Bernard Bard, "Yiddish Rebels Upset Yeshiva," in the New York Post, August 14, 1972, p. 2.
  5. ↑ The thesis is online at: http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/PDFLinguistics/1982.pdf.
  6. ↑ Katz, Dovid, "A yerushe fun kadmoynim: der semitisher kheylek in yidish",1979, publ. 1991 in Oksforder yidish 2, pp. 17-80, with a 1991 addendum pp. 80-95.
  7. ↑ Dovid Katz, "First steps in the reconstruction of the proto vocalism of the Semitic component in Yiddish", Dec. 1977, seminar paper available at: http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/PDFLinguistics/1977.pdf.
  8. ↑ Dovid Katz, "Zur Dialektologie des Jiddischen" in W. Besch et al (eds), "Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung", Berlin 1983, pp. 1018-1041.
  9. ↑ Dovid Katz,"The Proto Dialectology of Ashkenaz" in D. Katz (ed), "Origins of the Yiddish Language", Pergamon 1987, pp. 47-60.
  10. ↑ Papers on these and related topics are listed and posted on Katz's website.
  11. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_oxford.htm#4 Four-week summer course
  12. ↑ http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_periodicals.htm#Stencl Annual Stencl Lecture
  13. ↑ Katz edited the first six lectures in pamphlet form between 1984 and 1989; see:http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_periodicals.htm; also Mementos of the early Stencl Lectures
  14. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_oxford.htm#5 Winter symposiums
  15. ↑ Various illustrative documents from the period are posted at: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_oxford.htm.
  16. ↑ Four volumes appeared of which Katz edited the first two: "Origins of the Yiddish Language" (Pergamon 1987) and "Dialects of the Yiddish Language" (Pergamon 1988); mementos of the project
  17. ↑ Three vols. appeared, edited by Katz: 1 (1990) and 2 (1991) in standard format; vol. 3 (1995) is a large 1000 columned folio. The series was launched at the London Press Centre.
  18. ↑ American Jewish Yearbook, 1998, Vol. 98. Ed. David Singer. New York: American Jewish Committee, 1998. ISBN 0-87495-113-5 ISBN 978-0874951134. p. 245.
  19. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/06/arts/lithuania-and-oxford-are-linked-by-yiddish.html Agreement
  20. ↑ Around thirty maps have appeared to date on the in-progress web version of the Atlas at: http://www.dovidkatz.net/WebAtlas/AtlasSamples.htm.
  21. ↑ His earliest collection constituted a Youtube playlist on his channel.
  22. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/PDFStylistics/1993.pdf "Tikney takones. Fragn fun yidisher stilistik"
  23. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/PDFStylistics/1992.pdf "Code of Yiddish Spelling"
  24. ↑ Reviews include Zachary Sholem Berger in the Forward (Oct 29, 2004), Jeremy Dauber in the New York Sun (Nov 3, 2004), Norman Lebrecht in the Evening Standard (March 21, 2005),Susanne Marten-Finnis in the Times Higher Education Supplement (Oct 6, 2006), Julia Pascal in the Independent (March 4, 2005), Miriam Shaviv in the Jerusalem Post (2004), Gene Shaw in Library Journal (Dec. 2004), Joseph Sherman in the Times Literary Supplement (May 27, 2005).
  25. ↑ DovidKatz.net has a number of his Algemeiner Zhurnal (Algemeyner zhurnal) posted, on the pages for Yiddish studies and for Lithuanian issues.
  26. ↑ http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Language/Yiddish YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  27. ↑ He later posted a slightly Amended version on his website.
  28. ↑ http://yalepress.yale.edu/languages/pdf/Harkavy_preface.pdf The Yivo's reprint
  29. ↑ http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/939/ Center for Stateless Cultures
  30. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/7_KingdomsLitvaks.pdf "Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks"
  31. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/litvak-studies "Litvak Studies"
  32. ↑ http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_periodicals.htm#YP "Yiddish Pen"
  33. ↑ See: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_periodicals.htm
  34. ↑ City in the Moonlight: Stories of the Old-time Lithuanian Jews. Yiddish stories by Dovid Katz. Selected and translated by Barnett Zumoff. Ktav: New York 2012
  35. ↑ Ostjüdische Geschichten aus dem alten Litauen. Yiddish stories by Dovid Katz. Selected and translated by Melitta Depner. Salon: München 2012.
  36. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/1999-How%20to%20help%20the%20Holocausts%20Last%20Victims.jpg 1999 op-ed
  37. ↑ http://www.swissbankclaims.com/Documents/Doc_51_HSF.pdf The Swiss Banks settlement
  38. ↑ See Richard Ferrer in the Independent,16 Oct 2012, online at: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/channel-4s-jewish-mum-of-the-year-was-my-idea-and-im-proud-of-it-8209464.html.
  39. ↑ See the reviews by Tom Sutcliffe in the Independent and John Crace in the Guardian.
  40. ↑ See Cherie Woodworth's "Where did Yiddish come from?" and Batya Ungar-Sargon's "The mystery of the origins of Yiddish will never be solved"
  41. ↑ Dovid Katz, "Tsu der zorglozer dekonstruktsye fun Maks Vaynraykhn"
  42. ↑ http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_books.htm
  43. ↑ For articles on Yiddish language topics, see: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_linguistics.htm; on Lithuanian, Belarusian and East European topics: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_lithuania.htm; on Holocaust and antisemitism related issues: http://defendinghistory.com/the-editor.
  44. ↑ Dovid Katz, "On three definitions: Genocide; Holocaust Denial; Holocaust Obfuscation" in L. Donskis, ed., "A Litmus Test Case of Modernity (etc.), Peter Lang 2009, pp. 259-277. Online at: http://www.defendinghistory.com/2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.pdf
  45. ↑ http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/2June2008IrishEmbassy.JPG A certificate
  46. ↑ http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/30April2008USEmbassyCertificatetoFania.jpg Certificate of merit
  47. ↑ http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/25August2008fromninewesternemnbassies.pdf A letter from nine NATO-member embassies
  48. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/ambassadors-protest-antisemitism-in-lithuania/6362 A letter from seven European ambassadors
  49. ↑ Dovid Katz, "Prague's declaration of disgrace" in the Jewish Chronicle, 21 May 2009. Online at: http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/prague%E2%80%99s-declaration-disgrace
  50. ↑ Dovid Katz, "'Genocide industry' has hidden agenda" in the Irish Times, 30 May 2009. Online at: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0530/1224247744866.html?via=mr.
  51. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia Guardian
  52. ↑ http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/32432/the-crime-of-surviving/print/ Tablet
  53. ↑ http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=244192 Jerusalem Post
  54. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dovid-Katz-in-London-Jewish-News-3-August2012.pdf The London Jewish News
  55. ↑ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/efraim-zuroff-historys-lonely-sentinel/ The Times of Israel
  56. ↑ A list of his published articles on these subjects is provided in DefendingHistory.com.
  57. ↑ http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11-AGM-INVITATION-1.pdf The Jewish National Fund in Adelaide, Australia
  58. ↑ http://jiddisch.blogg.se/2010/may/sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lunds-universit.html Lund University in Sweden
  59. ↑ http://arts.monash.edu.au/jewish-civilisation/news-and-events/aftermath/keynote-speakers.php Monash Univ. in Melbourne
  60. ↑ http://www.dovidkatz.net/ToyShop/BordeauxPosterMarch2012.jpg Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux
  61. ↑ http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=248&Itemid=254 Rutgers
  62. ↑ http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst/events08C.htm Univ. of Pennsylvania
  63. ↑ http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/USC-March-25-2011-USC-Symposium-on-Politics-of-the-Holocaust.pdf Univ. of South Carolina at Columbia
  64. ↑ http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/holocaust-revisionism-ultranationalism-and-the-nazisoviet-double-genocide-debate-eastern The Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington DC
  65. ↑ http://www.judaicvilnius.com/en/main/in_news?ID=98&8b208d1a2d113dade6b704e6589d1767=ce79a40792367a4e9fa54e2f4301efc5 Univ. of London
  66. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/192723777433231/ Yeshiva Univ.
  67. ↑ A more complete listing of public lectures is found on his "Events" page, at: http://dovidkatz.net/ToyShop/_Events.htm.
  68. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/authors Authors
  69. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/collaborators-glorified Glorification of local Nazi collaborators
  70. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/exotic-jewish-tourism "Exotic tourism"
  71. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/opinion Opinion
  72. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/books Books
  73. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/theatre Film
  74. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/category/history History
  75. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/jewish-lithuania Resources in Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) affairs
  76. ↑ Seventy Years Declaration
  77. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/services/showShotlist.do?filmRef=82876&out=HTML&lg=en&src=1 Martin Schulz
  78. ↑ Text at: http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230. Jerusalem Post report by Danny-Ben Moshe, Jan 18, 2012, at: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=254222; NY Times report by Roger Cohen, 30 Jan 2012, at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/the-suffering-olympics.html.
  79. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00c74k5
  80. ↑ Marc Radomsky and Danny Ben-Moshe (producers), "Rewriting History". Website: http://rewriting-history.org; review by Graeme Blundell in the Australian, Sept 14, 2012, at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/television/lithuanias-lies-and-deception-exposed/story-fncnqfdm-1226473912101.
  81. ↑ "Prosecution and persecution. Lithuania must stop blaming the victims". The Economist. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  82. ↑ Ahren, Raphael (24 February 2009). "When Lithuania was 'Yiddishland'". Haaretz. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  83. ↑ "Wiesenthal Centre To OSCE Human Rights Conference 'Prague Declaration' is "A Project to Delete the Holocaust from European History". 2009 News Releases. Simon Wiesenthal Centre. October 5, 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  84. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/30/baltic-nazi-soviet-snyder A 2010 Guardian debate
  85. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dovid-Katzs-review-of-Bloodlands-in-EEJA-Dec-2011.pdf Book review in East European Jewish Studies
  86. ↑ http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/21/an-open-letter-to-yale-history-professor-timothy-snyder/ An open letter
  87. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/?p=34584 Controversy over the reburial with full honors
  88. ↑ http://defendinghistory.com/et-tu-yivo-2011-holocaust-survivor-community-is-jolted-by-yivo-plan-to-honor-the-lithuanian-foreign-minister-on-22-september/21195 Debate with the director of YIVO
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