https://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/02/12/the-vicissitudes-of-jewish-exceptionalism/
The American Interest
Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.
On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
by Paul Reitter
B
eing Jewish is a condition that, to the extent it is taken at all seriously, is hard to contemplate with equanimity. One has to love it or hate it. One can accept citizenship in the gentile nations of the world, on the other hand, with a fatalistic shrug. Their origins are shrouded for the most part in prehistory; their citizens have no common memory of having been anything other than what they are now. They do not hate being what they are any more than fish hate being wet. Their nationality is their element, and so it is taken for granted. One hears rarely, if ever, of Russian, Italian, Malay or Peruvian self-hatred.
Common calendar, Packet papers, January 15
Common calendar, Packet papers, January 15
Ongoing
Every first and third Saturday through April, the West Windsor Community Farmers Market is held outdoors, rain, snow or shine, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at MarketFair on Route 1 in West Windsor/Princeton.
Available is fresh produce, coastal seafood, farm fresh eggs, artisan cheese, fresh pasta and sauces, soups and chili, pastured meats and poultry, gluten-free baked goods, alpaca fiber wear, and more.
Yes We Can! food drive volunteers are set up at the outdoor market, where they collect cash donations from visitors to buy fresh produce from the farmers.
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Jan. 15, 2021 9:32 a.m.
Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine in Philadelphia on Jan. 11. He was 91.
Lionel Gossman, 2013
Photo by William Paulson, 1981 graduate alumnus
Gossman joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. His research and teaching focused on French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries; literature, literary criticism and history as social and cultural institutions; and the writing of history. He served as director of graduate studies from 1977-83 of what was then called the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and was department chair from 1991-96.
Eagle-eyed viewers of the Netflix hit series Bridgerton may have spotted a portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft hanging in the fictional familyâs residence. The
seriesâ creators included the background painting of âEnglandâs first feministâ in recognition of the significance of her ideas at the dawn of the Regency era.
Wollstonecraft was disgusted at how intelligent âsocietyâ women were groomed for submission under marriage and wrote about it with a journalistic urgency â but there any tenuous parallel with the Bridgerton fairytale ends.
Wollstonecraft spent a formative year working as governess to the daughters of the Anglo-Irish Kingsborough family in Ireland. Her political ideas crystallised in the book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she went head to head against conservative grandee Edmund Burke.
After Napoleon’s downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest.
A Velvet Empire is a global history of French imperialism in the 19th century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France’s power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization, says a review on the Princeton University Press website.
David Todd shows how French elites pursued a cunning strategy of imperial expansion in which conspicuous commodities such as champagne and silk textiles contributed to a global campaign of seduction.