The Editor

This journal is edited by Dovid Katz (www.DovidKatz.net)

Publications on Public Affairs, Antisemitism and Holocaust Issues

Note: In addition, unsigned articles in this journal are often (not always) by the editor.

See also: Interviews/Citations/Replies page

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2012

2 January 2012.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘EU ambassador to Afghanistan writes in the Wall Street Journal that Nazi rule in Lithuania was “a few years respite from the communists”’.

2 January 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A reconstructed shtetl — minus its Jewish component’  by Dovid Katz.

1 January 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ’2012 New Year’s resolution for the prime ministers of the Baltic states’.

2011

North America lecture tour (2011)

Australia lecture tour (2011)

 

December 2011.  East European Jewish Affairs (vol 41, no. 3, pp. 207-221): ‘The detonation of the Holocaust in 1941: a tale of two books’ [review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands and Alexander Prusin’s The Lands Between] by Dovid Katz.

22 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Popular daily has full front page spread on “The Jews”’.

19 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian Ministry of Defense honors “Lithuanian Activist Front” (LAF) Nazi collaborators’ by Dovid Katz.

19 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Mainstream Lithuanian news portal, Delfi.lt, again publishes antisemitic “ethnographic history”’.

16 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘”Double Genocide” permeates local antisemitic discourse in report on Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance II in Berlin’.

12 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Old stones speak to young pupils: Jewish gravestones in a Vilnius school yard. Photos by Richard Schofield. Text by Dovid Katz.

9 December 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Suspense in Vilnius as Paleckis verdict day nears’ by Dovid Katz.

28 November 2011.   Jerusalem Post: ’Manipulation?’ (Letter to the Editor)  [in reply to: 'Harley Felstein and Adrienne Oleck].

25 November 2011.  Algemeiner Journal: ‘Hannah Rosenthal does it again’ by Dovid Katz.

18 November 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘The new HOLOCAUST room in the BASEMENT of the GENOCIDE museum in Vilnius’ by Dovid Katz (text) and Richard Schofield (photographs).

9 November 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Open debate, open society, and secret societies’ by Dovid Katz.

3 November 2011.  Jerusalem Post: ‘UNESCO vote reveals Lithuanian duplicity’ by Dovid Katz. As PDF.  Reprint in the Algemeiner Journal.

2 November 2011.  Jerusalem Report / Jerusalem Post: ‘Lithuania assaults Holocaust memory’ by Danny Ben-Moshe.

October 2011.  Centre News [Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, Australia]: ‘Understanding “Double Genocide”: a lethal new threat to Holocaust memory and honesty’ by Dovid Katz [date on print edition: September 2011].

3 November 2011.  Jerusalem Post: ‘UNESCO vote reveals Lithuanian duplicity’ by Dovid Katz.  As PDF.  Reprint in the Algemeiner Journal.

October 2011.  Centre News [Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, Australia]: ‘Understanding “Double Genocide”: a lethal new threat to Holocaust memory and honesty’ by Dovid Katz [date on print edition: September 2011].

24 October 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Hungarian National Day celebration in Vilnius celebrates Lithuanian “Forest Brother”; Two local fascists invited’ [by Dovid Katz].

30 September 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Head of History Institute, speaking at “Bloodlands” event at the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, excoriates Holocaust survivors who joined the anti-Nazi partisans’ [by Dovid Katz].

28 September 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian foreign ministry’s two versions: for a Jewish audience (not for publication) and for “General” (proudly on website)’ [by Dovid Katz].

30 August 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian authorities initiate prosecution against another Holocaust survivor’ [by Dovid Katz].

28 August 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Et tu, Yivo? Holocaust survivors jolted by plan for Lithuanian foreign minister to be ‘guest of honor’ at Vilna Ghetto commemoration’ by Dovid Katz.

28 August 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A scholar’s apt warning on ultranationalist abuse of history and historians’ by Dovid Katz.

30 June 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘The Denial that is part of Holocaust Obfuscation: Second day of the Lithuanian parliament’s conference’ by Dovid Katz.

29 June 2011.   DefendingHistory.com: ‘In delirium of obfuscation: First day of the Lituhanian parliament’s conference on the 70th anniversary of Hitler’s attack on the USSR’ by Dovid Katz.

5 May 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Three years later: neither charged nor cleared’ [by Dovid Katz].

3 May 2011.  Winnipeg Jewish Review: ‘This year’s Yom Hashoah is different’ by Dovid Katz.

25 April 2011. Amy Shannon Liedy’s summary of Dovid Katz’s Kennan Institute (Woodrow Wilson Center) lecture in Washington DC (7 March 2001).

14 April 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Freedom of speech is not “pick and choose”. On the Paleckis trial in Vilnius’ by Dovid Katz.

3 April 2011.  DefendingHistory.com:  ‘Has the Forward Association abandoned elementary ethics?’ by Dovid Katz.

28 March 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Foreign Ministry cooking another one-sided “open forum”, this time in — Kaunas’ by Dovid Katz.

22 March 2011.  Lietuvos rytas / Lrytas.lt: ‘I am surprised by your article about my lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington’ [letter to the editor]  by Dovid Katz.

7 March 2011.  Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review: ‘Condemnation of communism does not require submission to Double Genocide, Holocaust Obfuscation, or the recent deterioration in civil society and free speech in Lithuania’ by Dovid Katz [reply to Rokas Grajauskas]. Also on DefendingHistory.com here.

1 February 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian Jews, Holocaust survivors, specialists who disagree with the Lithuanian government — shut out of London conference’ by Dovid Katz.

3 January 2011.  DefendingHistory.com: ‘When a “Human Rights Association” accepts and repeats the antisemitic canards in town’ by Dovid Katz.

2010

21 December 2010.  The Guardian: ‘Why is the US silent on “double genocide”? While European countries have condemned the new Holocaust revisionism in the Baltics, America shows no moral leadership’ by Dovid Katz.  In Russian.

15 December 2010.  Alfa.lt: ‘An open letter to the Prime Minister of Lithuania on the eve of his visit to Israel’ by Dovid Katz.

3 December 2010.  Tablet Magazine: ‘Conference call: the Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust education program have a dark history of their own’ by Dovid Katz.  Extract on History News Network.  On H-Net.

17 November 2010. Alfa.lt: ‘The Real Friend is the one who tells you when something is wrong’ by Dovid Katz.

10 November 2010. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Mr Lidington is right, but there is more to it’ by Dovid Katz. [revised version see item for 17 Nov]

November 2010.  Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: [Reply to Barry Rubin] by Dovid Katz.

30 September 2010.  The Guardian: ‘Why Red is not Brown in the Baltics. Unhappily,  Timothy Snyder’s historical reassessment of the Nazi-Soviet pact coincides with Baltic ultra-nationalist agendas’ by Dovid Katz. Also appears on the Litvak Studies Institute website.

29 September 2010.  The Baltic Times: ‘Letter to the Editor’ by Dovid Katz. PDF of 30 Sept print version.

22 September 2010.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Gentiles who take up Yiddish and the question of moral responsibility in Eastern Europe’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.

September 2010.  Personal statement on antisemitism in Lithuania.

1 September 2010.  Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism: ‘Time to free Europe of this poison’ by Dovid Katz. Also appears on the Litvak Studies Institute website.

16 August 2010.  HITB: ‘Human Rights — and Holocaust Obfuscation — in the Baltic States. Letter to the Editor (Response to Clifford J. Levy’s report) by Dovid Katz.

25 June 2010.  Algemeiner Journal: ‘Lithuanian government’s “Genocide Museum” in Vilnius does not mention the Holocaust!’ by Dovid Katz.

28 May 2010. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘A devil’s dance of swastikas in Lithuania: A court decides that swastikas are “Lithuania’s historical heritage rather than symbols of Nazi Germany”’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.

27 May 2010.  Jewish Chronicle: ‘It is time for Cameron to reject the EU nutters’ by Dovid Katz.

3 May 2010.  Tablet Magazine: ‘The crime of surviving’ by Dovid Katz.

26 March 2010.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Two marches in a Nazi spirit: in the city centers of Vilnius and Riga; Both legally sanctioned, both ignored by the West’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.

24 February 2010.  Jewish Ledger: ‘Q & A with Dovid Katz’ by Cindy Mindell.  PDF.

8 January 2010.  Guardian: ‘Halting Holocaust Obfuscation. The Baltic ultranationalists rewriting east European history as an equal Nazi-Soviet “double genocide” must be stopped’ by Dovid Katz. Alternate link [reprint in the Algemeiner Journal].  Republication in Russian.

2009

30 December 2009.  Jewish Week (Washington): ‘Don’t let the Holocaust be rewritten out of history’ by Dovid Katz.

4 December 2009.  The Algemeiner Journal: ‘The Prague Declaration is Europe’s New Antisemitic Poison’ by Dovid Katz and Clemens Heni.  Also on Wissenschaft und Publizistik als Kritik.

30 November 2009.  The Jewish Chronicle: ‘Tories must reject “Double Genocide” proponents. Alliance with those who would downgrade the Holocaust is a grave mistake’ by Dovid Katz.

31 October 2009.  Irish Times: ‘Cameron must end Tories’ far-right fling’ by Dovid Katz.

September 2009.  ‘On three definitions: Genocide, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Obfuscation’ in Leonidas Donskis (ed), A Litmus Test Case of Modernity. Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century [= Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5], Peter Lang: Bern 2009, pp 259-277.

23 June 2009. Institute for Global Jewish Affairs (Jerusalem): ‘The project to delete the Holocaust from European history’ [synopsis of paper] by Dovid Katz.

30 May 2009.  Irish Times: ‘Genocide Industry has hidden agenda. Attempts at equalizing historical wrongs are often aimed at Holocaust Obfuscation’ by Dovid Katz; alternate link.

21 May 2009.  Jewish Chronicle: ‘Prague’s declaration of disgrace: A European attempt to equate Communism with Nazism will falsify history’ by Dovid Katz; alternate link.

12 May 2009.  Speech delivered at the book launch for Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in Lithuania at Vilnius Old Town Hall.

February 2009.  ‘Epilogue’ (pp 55-58) in Dovid Katz, Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks.

January 2009.  Preface to The Sounds of Silence. Lithuanian version of the preface, translated by Tomas Venclova.

2008

15 August 2008.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Rokhl Margolis, 86, cannot visit her hometown Vilna because she fought against the Nazis’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.  Part II.

25 July 2008.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Will the world remain silent as a new and more cunning form of Holocaust Denial comes before — the European Parliament?’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.  Part II.

2007

30 November 2007.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Master US diplomat in Vilnius: Joe Boski’ by Dovid Katz). II.

20 July 2007.  In honor of Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky’s 85th Birthday.  Part II.  Part III.

20 March 2007.  Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Noah Shneidman’s Vilna Ghetto boxing medal’ (by Dovid Katz).  Follow-up article on 16 August 2007.

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