By Peloni
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The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
@Michael Are they yellow?
I am as I have said, an independent. Mark Robinson is one Republican candidate I want to lose.
Russia is converting its Black Sea Fleet to all submarines!
Here is a video of an apparent surface ship submerging!
https://youtu.be/gJQj4KSmzW0
In other news, Russia is converting its fighter, bomber and AWAACS fleets into ground vehicles.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/29/shooting-down-11-russian-jets-in-11-days-ukraine-nudges-the-russian-air-force-closer-to-an-organizational-death-spiral/?sh=529109f514bc
@Laura @Peloni Carlson said he was not favorably impressed by Putin but saw no signs of cult of personality, no statues of Putin.
@Laura
This doesn’t make any sense either. So you believe that Putin is empowered by a Congress which won’t fund his enemies and as a result he kills Navalny who is already defeated, isolated, powerless, voiceless and ignored by everyone, which gives Navalny a victory, power, voice and attention from everyone. Putin is a strategist. This is how he keeps the 16 factions in his nation at bay, by keeping them off balance while vying with their counterpart, all the time leaving Putin controlling them all. He would never have place himself in such a situation which gains him nothing while advancing the interests of all his enemies to spoil the unveiling of his narrative to the West, for which he has been waiting years to tell. Your whole thesis here simply makes no sense at all.
@Sebastien
@Laura
I think describing Carlson as a Putin appologist misdirects the truth about Carlson. He has no interest in Putin any more than he has in the Ukrainians. He simply doesn’t care, and not because it is in eastern Europe where the details of what comes next won’t affect the US, but rather, simply because it is beyond the borders of the US irregardless of the details. This is why he condemns those who have significant interest or concern as to what might happen in Israel. He is not an American Firster which is dependent upon strong allies to uphold US interests around the world. Instead, he is an American Only, an isolationist who doesn’t believe the US has any interests around the world. He scorns internationalism altogether, and I would argue that he would have the US pull its forces from around the world, allow the world to burn as it might, so long as the US is not bothered by whatever anyone does to anyone else. So, while he may sound like a Putin yuppy, he is simply defining the game based on the perception which makes it easiest to ignore the conflict altogether.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I really do not believe that I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOaiVFl71uo
@Laura
As if the intelligence agencies who are our only sources of information are always truthful and reliable, right?
Putin is arrogant and feels empowered by the wishy-washy support the west is giving to Ukraine, especially the holdup in our Congress. It also is consistent with several other assassinations he’s carried out recently with critics falling out of windows. Carlson totally sounds like a putin apologist or perhaps embarrassed about being Putin’s useful idiot and trying to downplay his own roll in giving putin the confidence to believe he can assassinate Navalny with impunity. So, he must push the narrative that it couldn’t be putin in order to absolve himself.
Sinema is one of the saner democrats. Of course, sanity in the democrat party is a low bar these days.
@Peloni Yes, actually, he just says it doesn’t make sense for Putin to have done it then unless he’s stupid, which he’s not and say he’ has no idea what happened but to the possibilities suggested by his interviewr he says yes, he used to think the U.S. doesn’t assassinate people in other countries but now he knows it does. It’s toward the beginning. He doesn’t sound like a Putin apologist though.
Victoria Nuland is resigning and Sen. Sinema has dropped her bid for reelection. Notably, with only two people running for AZ senator, it makes the cheating far easier to track.
Two big victories.
@Sebastien
This makes more sense than Putin killing him in the wake of his long awaited PR victory with the Carlson interview. Another potential culprit would be the British, who are completely unhinged over the topic of the Russians. The only issue is whether one might believe that either the US or Britain would have the access inside the Russian prison system. We will likely never know the truth of all of this, but it makes little sense that Putin intentionally shot himself in the foot so publicly with an obvious unforced error with no benefits for him at all. Just my own thoughts of course.
Just started watching this more than 3 hour interview with Carlson about his Putin interview but in the promo clip he suggested the U.S. assassinated Navalny.
https://youtu.be/f_lRdkH_QoY?si=3ibQF33xkVdnQ6KU
@Edgar
@Michael
This is true, but I would argue that this was in fact a very big deal and a very important ruling.
Stating that states can not regulate who is and who is not eligible under the 14th amendment is a very big decision, and more than SCOTUS provided the means by which this could be clarified further to be within the control of the Congress. This provides the public with the means to control this decision, as they control all decisions, by using the power of their vote, presuming that the power of the vote is ever returned to the people.
This issue was a political football, and SCOTUS rarely intercedes in matters which it considers to be politically based. This was the faux excuse which they used to punt on the 2020 election fraud. The problem with their punting was that, as in Bush v Gore, some decision was needed or the country was going to go thru a very bad transition with a govt which was seized rather than elected. They could have made a similar choice here, by ignoring this case and allowing it to run its course without any intervention. The consequence for doing so would have been far less significant than the consequences of their actions following the 2020 election.
Instead, they took the case, heard the arguments, and made a 9-0 ruling on the main issue which deprived individual states the ability to overturn the election outcome based on the decisions of an individual or several individual states. Had SCOTUS acted in with the same sense of responsibility in dealing with the serious election matters in Dec. 2020, we wouldn’t even be discussing the 14th Amendment today, but let’s not digress.
They took a political pipe bomb and removed the responsibility from the individual states and gave it to the federal political body which is the Congress. Should something happen to Speaker Johnson, as you note, things will take a very seriously bad turn, but til this happens, this is a win for Trump. The next issue is whether Trump can be held accountable for actions taken as president. If this comes down indicating that presidents have immunity for presidential actions, this will end the matter entirely. If not, well, keep your eye on Johnson.
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I just recalled that I have an old friend, the older brother of my closest growing up pal, who was 100 a couple of years ago. HE was an active member of the Rathmines Theatre Group, and I’ve looked at Wiki and seen all that “baby elephant” crap etc. And that O’Hara was also a member there. That’s all PR blurb put there by her family.
“baby elephant”. if true was likely a pet name for her as a 2-3 year old chubby infant. Pretty small stuff for PR. for such a big star, who to me, only had one acting emotion…A temper tantrum. But it made her millions ….
So I’ve emailed him to ask ..I’ll let you know his response.
Hi, Peloni
To what I understand, SCOTUS punted to the US Congress; and the Dems have already started the gears moving to disqualify Donald Trump. The main obstacle to them, it seems, is Mike Johnson. If he can keep the measure off the floor, Trump wins.
I think the Supreme decision has clarified the law, in separating federal and state responsibility for enforsing Section 3 of Arthcle 14. That’s “historic”, in a way, but not a big way. For now, the most important result is that neither CO nor other states (such as IL?) can unilaterally disqualify Trump.
@Tanna
Just for clarity, this is a really quick ruling for SCOTUS. To your point, the ruling was obvious to any rational individual, and given that there were no dissenting votes from SCOTUS, this would seem to be the perspective of the full court, so they could have acted sooner and should have done so and could have done so even without/before the appeal, but as appeals go, this was an extremely quick ruling for SCOTUS.
SCOTUS RULES 9-0 in favor of Donald Trump, reversing Colorado decision to remove Trump from the ballot!
I wonder what is up with the supreme court. They seem to be shy, backward, not able to make quick judgements. They have had weeks or months to rule on this and they wait till the day before Super Tuesday. What’s up with that?
@Michael
It will be historic no matter what they rule. There is no way they keep Trump off the ballot, IMO. They are also making an early ruling remotely which is unusual, and suggests the need to get the ruling out. It is believed that this indicates they will rule for Trump, otherwise, there would be no need for a quick decision.
Peloni,
This could be a historic ruling.
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I’d say a lot of it is exaggerated, with Irish Blarney to boost her name and character post facto.. No one in had ever heard of her before she won that Dawn competition, I guarantee. .
As for Old FitzSimons, he had some sort of pull with Shamrock Rovers Soccer Club and I’m sure I was introduced to him, and saw him several times. this was in the Rovers bar..
I was a member of a cricket club at age 15, with grounds right across the Rd from Shamrock, and we all had the entre to their bar, after our practices and matches.
They looked after me, being a kid, with a limit of 2 Smithwick’s Ale .
Our club had at least two total alcoholics, who drank so much that they seemed sober. I certainly was surprised when they both told me, then I could see it. John Colleary (who used to be on Wiki but now is not) teetered on his feet from toe to heel. How he kept upright I don’t know.
He was an actor and the husband of a famous Irish Actress and film star.
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I’d say a lot of it is exaggerated, with Irish Blarney to boost her name and character. No one in had ever heard of her before she won that Dawn competition, I guarantee .
As for Old FitzSimons, he had some sort of pull with Shamrock rovers soccer Club and I’m sure I was introducedto him , and saw him several times. this was in the Bar of Xhamrock Rovers.
I was a member of a cricket club at age 15, with grounds right across the Rd from Shamrock, and we all had the entre to their bar, after our practices and matches.
They looked after me, being a kid, with a limit of 2 Smithwick’s Ale .
Our club had at least two total alcoholics, who drank so much that they seemed sober. I certainly was surprised when they both told me, then I could see it. John Colleary (who used to be on Wiki but now is not) teetered on his feet from toe to heel. How he kept upright I don’t know.
He was an actor and the husband of a famous Irish Actress and film star.
Several officials in the Spokesman Unit of the IDF resigned today. Those included in the resignations are Hagari’s second in command as well as Col. Richard Hecht who became a familiar face in recent months during his daily briefings. There is no comment as to the cause of the resignations and Brig. Gen. Hagari is not among those who have resigned.
OSINTdefender:
SCOTUS ruling on Trump ballot Colorado case is expected tomorrow am.
@Edgar Thank your for the correction. Wikipedia has many other interesting anecdotal details about the film, which I am unfamiliar with, as well as her life and career, including details about her childhood and autobiographical quotes, the latter quite extensive, both of which corroborate what you said, and then some.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Inn_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_O%27Hara
O’Hara earned the nickname “Baby Elephant” for being a pudgy infant.[4] A tomboy, she enjoyed fishing in the River Dodder, riding horses, swimming, and soccer,[11] and would play boys’ games and climb trees.[7]
O’Hara was so keen on soccer that at one point, she pressed her father to found a women’s team, and professed that Glenmalure Park, the home ground of Shamrock Rovers F.C., became “like a second home”.[11] She enjoyed fighting, and trained in judo as a teenager.[12] She later admitted that she was jealous of boys in her youth and the freedom they had, and that they could steal apples from orchards and not get into trouble.[13]
O’Hara first attended the John Street West Girls’ School near Thomas Street in Dublin’s Liberties Area.[14] She began dancing at the age of 5,[4] when a fortune teller predicted that she would become rich and famous, and she would boast to friends as they sat in her back garden that she would “become the most famous actress in the world”. Her enthusiastic family fully supported the idea.[15] When she recited a poem on stage in school at the age of six, O’Hara immediately felt an attraction to performing in front of an audience. From that age she trained in drama, music, and dance along with her siblings at the Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution in Dublin.[10] Their affinity with the arts prompted O’Hara to refer to the family as the “Irish von Trapp family”.[4]
O’Hara (right) with sisters Margot and Florrie in 1947
At the age of 10, O’Hara joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and began working in amateur theatre in the evenings after her lessons.[16] One of her earliest roles was Robin Hood in a Christmas pantomime.[10] O’Hara’s dream at this time was to be a stage actress. By the age of 12, O’Hara had reached the height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m), and it worried her mother for a while that she would become “the tallest girl” in Ireland as Maureen’s father was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m). She expressed relief when O’Hara only grew another two inches.[17]
@Thank you for the correction. I’d rather be well-informed than right. I don’t know this film.
“…Charles Laughton was a co-producer on this movie, and he reportedly interfered greatly with Hitchcock’s direction. Laughton initially was cast as Joss, but he cast himself in the role of the villainous Pengallan, who originally was a hypocritical preacher but was rewritten as a squire because unsympathetic portrayals of the clergy were forbidden by the Production Code in Hollywood.[3] Sidney Gilliat did these rewrites as a favour to Hitchcock.[4]
Laughton then demanded that Hitchcock give his character greater screen time. This forced Hitchcock to reveal that Pengallan was a villain in league with the smugglers earlier in the film than Hitchcock had initially planned.[5]
Laughton’s acting was a problem point as well for Hitchcock. Laughton portrayed Pengallan as having a mincing walk that went to the beat of a German waltz that he played in his head,[6] and Hitchcock thought it was out of character. Laughton also demanded that Maureen O’Hara be given the lead after watching her screen test (her acting in the screen test was sub par, but Laughton could not forget her eyes). After filming finished, Laughton brought her to Hollywood to play Esmeralda opposite his Quasimodo in the hit 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, after which she became an international star.[1]
On release, the film was a substantial commercial success and in March 1939 Hitchcock moved to Hollywood to begin his contract with David O. Selznick. Thus Jamaica Inn was his last picture made in Britain until the 1970s.[6][7]…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Inn_(film)
Lot of personal as well as professional and some autobiographical detail in the article about her that might interest you. It’s quite long.
“…Early life and education
O’Hara with her mother, Marguerite FitzSimons, in 1948
Born on 17 August 1920,[4] O’Hara began life as Maureen FitzSimons on Beechwood Avenue in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh.[5] She stated that she was “born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could have possibly hoped for”.[6] She was the second-eldest of six children of Charles and Marguerite (née Lilburn) FitzSimons, and the only red-headed child in the family.[7] Her father was in the clothing business and bought into Shamrock Rovers Football Club,[8] a team O’Hara supported from childhood.[9]
‘O’Hara inherited her singing voice from her mother,[7] a former operatic contralto and successful women’s clothier, who in her younger years was widely considered to have been one of Ireland’s most beautiful women. She noted that whenever her mother left the house, men would leave their houses just so they could catch a glimpse of her in the street.[4] O’Hara’s siblings were Peggy, the eldest, and younger Charles, Florrie, Margot, and Jimmy. Peggy dedicated her life to a religious order, becoming a Sister of Charity.[4]
O’Hara earned the nickname “Baby Elephant” for being a pudgy infant.[4] A tomboy, she enjoyed fishing in the River Dodder, riding horses, swimming, and soccer,[11] and would play boys’ games and climb trees.[7]
O’Hara was so keen on soccer that at one point, she pressed her father to found a women’s team, and professed that Glenmalure Park, the home ground of Shamrock Rovers F.C., became “like a second home”.[11] She enjoyed fighting, and trained in judo as a teenager.[12] She later admitted that she was jealous of boys in her youth and the freedom they had, and that they could steal apples from orchards and not get into trouble.[13]
O’Hara first attended the John Street West Girls’ School near Thomas Street in Dublin’s Liberties Area.[14] She began dancing at the age of 5,[4] when a fortune teller predicted that she would become rich and famous, and she would boast to friends as they sat in her back garden that she would “become the most famous actress in the world”. Her enthusiastic family fully supported the idea.[15] When she recited a poem on stage in school at the age of six, O’Hara immediately felt an attraction to performing in front of an audience. From that age she trained in drama, music, and dance along with her siblings at the Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution in Dublin.[10] Their affinity with the arts prompted O’Hara to refer to the family as the “Irish von Trapp family”.[4]
O’Hara (right) with sisters Margot and Florrie in 1947
At the age of 10, O’Hara joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and began working in amateur theatre in the evenings after her lessons.[16] One of her earliest roles was Robin Hood in a Christmas pantomime.[10] O’Hara’s dream at this time was to be a stage actress. By the age of 12, O’Hara had reached the height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m), and it worried her mother for a while that she would become “the tallest girl” in Ireland as Maureen’s father was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m). She expressed relief when O’Hara only grew another two inches.[17]…”
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– Maureen O’hara – Wikipedia
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I hate to disagree with you since things are going on so smoothly, but Laughton did NOT “discover” her for that picture. She starred with him in Jamaica Inn, which was a pre-war film-just.
I knew the FitzSimons family; used to buy chocolate and other items in their little shop. O’Hara was many years gone by then.
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Jimmy and I used to chase around -especially girls, and have a few drinks etc, the usual early manhood behaviour.
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There’s no accounting for taste. I still think it was “soppy”, and completely dampened the general hilarity of the movie which had been moving along so nicely.
It had no place in that movie at all. It reminds me-in quite a different sphere- of the interjected Christian fakery in Josephus, as all the experts have said, totally against the normal flow of th narrative.
Eusebius, the faker-in-chief…..The master of “interpolations”……….!!!
@Edgar I thought his recitation of the Gettsyburg address was moving and the best part.
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I have never been able to face watching anything about the persecution of Jews especially on the screen. I got to know some of the persecuted who were smuggled into Ireland and whom I met in school. Their stories filled me with horror, which has not dissipated over all this time.
As you know, I’m a first generation from the Shtetl, and grew up with strong and often violent Jew hatred which I have described on these pages more than once. My naturally aggressive nature came early to the fore and has remained with me.
Charlie Ruggles did not play “the father”, I don’t recall children, he played “Egbert Floud”. Ma Pettindill was so good in her part that she should have had an award. Seen her many times, always good, can’t recall her first name but think her family name is Ebourne.
I thought that reciting the Gettysburg Address, was a lot too shmaltzy , and in fact deteriorated from the hilarity of the film.
The cut out in which Ruggles visualised Indians with himself tied to a stake and being swarmed by howling dervishes was really priceless, also the line …” A real China Person??”
I’m not surprized that you’ve seen and appreciated so many of my favourites. One time this was so marked that you said “we are a symbiotic pair” (paraphrased) and although that seemed to sink into abeyance on other matters I find it is still with us..
@Edgar And that was just one in a shopping mall! Yes, Ruggles of Red Gap has been one of my favorite movies since childhood. Another is Jean Renoir’s “This Land is Mine” which you can watch online. 1942/3. The only film of the genre of that time that even mentions the persecution of Jews. A bildungsroman about a timid school teacher in Vichy France who transforms under pressure and becomes an anti-fascist hero. Almost everybody becomes or reveals themselves to be their opposite in the film. The court room speech is spellbinding. I found it later in a book of best monologues of 1942. I believe Laughton discovered Maureen O’hara for this film. I always cry at the end. I’m not somebody who cries at the movies. It came out the same year as Casablanca 1942/43. It wasn’t released all at once. Better film in my opinion. One of about 10 films of that genre released at that time. Renoir was the son of the painter.
The father in Ruggles of :Red Gap, the actor who plays him is named Charles Ruggles by the way.
@Edgar And that was just one in a shopping mall! Yes, Ruggles of Red Gap has been one of my favorite movies since childhood. Another is Jean Renoir’s “This Land is Mine” which you can watch online. 1942/3. The only film of the genre of that time that even mentions the persecution of Jews. A bildungsroman about a timid school teacher in Vichy France who transforms under pressure and becomes an anti-fascist hero. Almost everybody becomes or reveals themselves to be their opposite in the film. The court room speech is spellbinding. I found it later in a book of best monologues of 1942. I believe Laughton discovered Maureen O’hara for this film. I always cry at the end. I’m not somebody who cries at the movies. It came out the same year as Casablanca 1942/43. It wasn’t released all at once. Better film in my opinion. One of about 10 films of that genre released at that time. Renoir was the son of the painter.
The father in Ruggles of :Red Gap, the actor who plays him is named Charles Ruggles by the way.
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Yes I checked the Sth Korean Library out. It gave me quite a shock to think that it is loaded with millions of books books books. At first I thought it was a cruise ship.
I never imagined anything like that. .
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Another book which I recommend and which I know is on Proj, Gut. is “Potash and Perlmutter”. It’s by Montague Glass. I have a copy and used to read it to my children as they were growing up.
It was in HUGE demand in my home, and I quickly learned how to speak in the P&P lingo. In my opinion it’s a “clever” book..!!
It’s the first of a series and in my opinion by far the best one. It was made into a play and I recall one of my dear mother’s cousins quoting from the play. this was the first i’d heard of it and I was about 12.
I always remembered the quote and later picked it up in my favourite used bookstore. The quote from the play was not in the book -as I recall.
In fact my daughter Rachel, asked me for it and she still treasures it.
Goyim would not appreciate these works; it takes Jews to understand the inner meanings, and most likely, like myself, they know people who are exactly like the characters portrayed.
Then there’s “Ruggles of Red Gap”, by Harry Leon Wilson, no Jewish content but FUNNY. Charles Laughton headed a wonderfully well cast group in the movie.
In our house we used to screen it at least twice a year- or on demand.
By coincidence Laughton played the part of Ruggles, the perfect “valet/butler”, and a major actor in the cast was Charlie Ruggles.
Thenn there’s a priceless “Bindle” series by the publisher/writer Herbert Jenkins, and the famous “Barge” stories by W.W. Jacobs, whose fame rests on what I consider a silly one act play (in which I once had the major role) “The Monkey’s Paw”.
And so on and so forth.
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You’ll realise that Schnorring is an old Jewish tradition, and in certain areas never demeaned the recipient of largess. It was a traditional duty for Jews to give charity as much as could be spared, even the poorest in the village gave. All very true.
In fact many or most of the Yeshivas used to send their reps travelling around the world especially the areas from which they originally came, to collect donations, and who would also stay with donors to save money.
I had a cousin who lived in Jerusalem and used to make a regular circuit of Ireland and England. He’d stay with us for a few days collecting from the Dublin Community and then on to other cities. His Yeshiva was Yeshiva Tiferet Tzvi. His two sons were editors of the Israeli Womens’ Magazine L’Isha.
You’ll very likely enjoy it.
I’ used to go through Project Gutenberg almost ever since I discovered it and must have read a couple of and books thousand stories there. For instance ALl the early Astounding Science Fiction, and Amazing pulps for several years, each with maybe a dozen stories and/or serials, as well as a Readers Corner, in which many of the readers later became famous science fiction writers themselves.
I recognised many of them. I used to read them from cover to over…literally all the adverts,(perhaps 30 or more pages), finishing with the Charles Atlas full back cover page, and the poor shnook who got sand kicked in his face before he took the Atlas course.
(In Project G. I started at “A” and got down to “O” before I discovered other sites).
I mentioned this many years ago on this site.
My reading has always been omnivorous.
@Edgar Wikipedia has an article about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Schnorrers
Alibris and Abebooks have it used for $5 plus. Other sites have it new for $56+. Project Gutenberg has it as a web page for free. I think I’ll go that way.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38413/38413-h/38413-h.htm
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One of the jokes I recall from Ausubel goes like this:….
“Two schnorrers who made their living from the Rothschilds, were discussing them whilst standing outside the railings surrounding Rothschild’s Family Burial Mausoleum,,,, they turned and looked at the ornate building, and one said….
“These Rothschilds certainly know how to live”…
At the time being much younger, I thought it was funny, but now with advancing age, I’ve changed my mind.
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Another book you might look out for, because to me it’s a classic. I bought it before you were born.
It’s “The King of Schnorrers” by Israel Zangwill. Written in the early 1890s.
@Edgar Did you click on the link I said to check out. Amazing photograph. South Koreans are real bibliophiles. They have libraries that look like this..:
“The largest underground shopping center in Asia, COEX Mall, can now boast a library filled with over 50,000 titles to its name. Occupying a whopping 2800 square-meters in size, the brightly lit two-storey athenaeum has rightly been named Starfield Library after long being referred to as the Open Library.”
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/seoul-south-korea-library-coex
Korea also boasts the oldest printed book using metal moveable type. 1377. The Jikji.
“Jikji
Dating from 1377, Jikji was printed in the Heungdeok-sa temple in Cheongju, using movable, cast metal characters. It is considered by the international community, including UNESCO, to be the oldest known document printed using this process.”
75 years before Gutenberg.
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At $7+ you got a bargain, assuming it’s a hard cover. You’ll enjoy it. As before I’d like to get your impressions of the contents. Many are subtle, almost Talmudic. These are rare items I’m sure.
You see, books are and have been my constant lifelong habit from early childhood, since I taught myself to read at age 21/2, (according to my elder sister who was 12 at the time -and present)
I recall walking along the road with my brown paper bag for my first day
at school at around the same age.
***I’ve described both incidents on this site in the past***
So you see, I’m an addict, and of course like to be proven right in my opinion of individual books.
@Tanna
@Sebastien
@Edgar
I never bought the Sasson book due to its broad range of history. I am told it was worth the read, but personally I prefer more specific histories. I totally agree with Edgar about Zeitlin’s three vol. set on the Judean State. Excellent book.
It is a great pity that the random book stores which used to be spotted with some regularity has been lost to our current age. There are still a few about, but very few unfortunately. Everything today is largely ‘printed’ in ebooks and kindle, but I rather like the sound of the pages turning as I read thru a real book.
@Zorn, I have not read Sasson as of yet. Just got a few days ago.
Tanna Yes. I double checked. It was the men’s room, alright, and a staff member held the door open. There are so many histories. Do you recommend the Sasson?
This is what Wikipedia says about him
Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: ???? ??? ??-???? (1914 in Valozhyn – 16 May 1977 in Jerusalem) was professor of Jewish medieval history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the editor of History of the Jewish People.[1]
Ordered it for $7.20 plus .99 tax and $3.99 shipping, $12.20. From textbookrush.com One site wanted $56 plus tax and shipping
@Tanna Yes. I double checked. It was the men’s room, alright, and a staff member held the door open. There are so many histories. Do you recommend the Sasson?
This is what Wikipedia says about him
Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: ???? ??? ??-???? (1914 in Valozhyn – 16 May 1977 in Jerusalem) was professor of Jewish medieval history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the editor of History of the Jewish People.[1]
Ordered it from textbook.rush.com for $12.20 including tax and shipping. GreT variation in prices. One site wanted $56 plus tax and shipping.
@Edgar Check this out
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/seoul-south-korea-library-coex
@Edgar Serious bookstores and circulating libraries where you can find something you are looking for are a thing of the past, like phone booths.