Jewish Cowboys Fade From Argentina’s History
The Washington Post has a great story by Juan Forero on Jewish gauchos. No, really! Forero says: Today, the story of their arrival in Argentina’s outback is all but a footnote in the history of the...
View ArticleMillennial Moment: Iranian Exiles Find a Bit of Home in Santa Monica Park
Oct. 25, 1982: Times staff writer Bill Overend profiles Iranian exiles who gather in Santa Monica’s Palisades Park on Sunday afternoons, hundreds of people — mostly Jews and some Muslims — who came to...
View ArticleAug. 4, 1907: Galveston Plan Brings Russian Jews to Southwestern U.S.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Aug. 4, 1907 Galveston, Texas The Times reports on the Jewish Territorial Organization headed by author and playwright Israel Zangwill and banker Jacob Schiff...
View ArticleRaymond bombing
Feb. 20, 1938Los Angeles Yes, the AP actually wrote the above story and The Times actually published it. Below, one of the most backward sentences I have read in a long while: "Not guilty will be the...
View ArticleMay 31, 1938
Floyd Roberts of Van Nuys, who gained much of his experience on the dirt track at Ascot, wins the Indianapolis 500. Roberts averaged 117.2 mph in a four-cylinder car (at left) built and owned by Lou...
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Just remember: The Times editorialized against suspending U.S. immigration quotas for European Jews and other refugees, March 30, 1938: "They would … reach havens as paupers either to be added to the...
View ArticleJune 19, 1938
ermany begins the systematic roundup of Jews on the pretext of putting them in "protective custody" or claiming that they are foreigners "without proper papers." "At Buchenwald Concentration Camp,...
View ArticleJune 20, 1938
609 E. 2nd St. in 1938, above, and the neighborhood via Google street view, below. At left, thugs vandalizing Jewish businesses in Berlin observe a day of rest. Above, D.W. Griffith’s "Birth of a...
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