Lawrence Baron

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Lawrence (Laurie) Baron, now retired, served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University. He served from 1988 to 2006 as director of SDSU’s Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. He was the founder in 1995 of the Western Jewish Studies Association.

He writes two satire columns for San Diego Jewish World: “Humoring the Headlines” under his byline, and “Hounding the Headlines,” under the byline of his dog Elona.

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Books to his credit, available on Amazon, include:

Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema

The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema

The eclectic anarchism of Erich Muhsam (Men & movements in the history & philosophy of anarchism)

His most recent articles are:

“Making Room for the Jews: The House I Live In (1945),” AJS Perspectives, Summer 2023, 86-88.  

The Revolt of Job: Salvaging the Lost World of Rural Hungarian Hasidim,” Journal of Jewish Identities, 16:1-2 (January/July 2023), 181-198.

“Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema, in Armenian and Jewish Experience between Expulsion and Destruction, ed. Sarah M. Ross and Regina Randhofer (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), 267-296.

“The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors from Elaine May to Claudia Weill,” Jews and Gender (Studies in Jewish Civilization), ed. Leonard Greenspoon (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2021), 217-243.

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Humoring the headlines: October 7, 2019

Rudy Giuliani finally recognized that admitting the crimes the president is accused of is not a good legal strategy.  Therefore, he is concocting more subtle ways of conveying to foreign leaders that they should investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter for corruption.  Here’s a draft for a future call he plans to make to the Chinese Embassy. (To read more of this satirical column, please click the headline.)

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Hounding the headlines: October 4, 2019

Until I was adopted by the Barons, I didn’t know much about cats.  To be sure, when I was on the street, I saw more of them than stray dogs.  While I couldn’t wait to find a home, the cats who prided themselves on being feral relished their freedom.  The Barons owned two cats, both of whom ignore me.  Their vacant stares can only be described as catatonic. (To read more, please click on headline.)

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Lawrence Baron, Lifestyles, The World We Share

Humoring the Headlines: October 2, 2019

Foecabulary: Donald’s Dictionary of Demonization By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump released the latest edition of his Dictionary of Demonization. Here’s some of the new entries: Spy=a whistleblower who follows protocol in filing a report. Presidential Harassment=Constitutional Congressional Oversight over the Executive Branch. Perfect=Incriminating. Scum=Fake News wasn’t sufficiently polarizing. Coup=Impeachment Inquiry. Favor=Extortion. A Civil War

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Hounding the Headlines: September 20, 2019

This is the first time I am residing with a Jewish family that celebrates what I think is called the High Collie Days.  I’m not exactly sure what that entails, but I want to fit in.  Tomorrow night is Sleek Coat, and, I definitely have one.  People recite prayers and readings about forgiveness.  I might skip it because I haven’t attacked any dogs, bit any humans, or scared any people in the past year. 

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Hounding the Headlines: September 13, 2019

I heard this week that the Golden Deceiver fired John Bolton.  What did he expect when he appointed Bolton?  From my own experience, I don’t want to be near two alpha dogs when they are in the same room.  The biting, the growling, and the marking of territory guarantee that eventually one of them is going to send his rival packing with his legs between his tail or, in Bolton’s case, under his moustache.   

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Humoring the Headlines: September 11, 2019

On Monday President Trump told reporters: “I don’t want to allow people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.”  The seeds of his 2020 stump speech have been planted.  Here’s our forecast of what he’ll say.

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Hounding the Headlines: September 8, 2019

My owner writes parodies of songs and suggested I try my paw at it.  I heard this old Patti Paige record and decided to update it.

How much is that puppy in the window?
The one who is sold at a store.    
Unlike the doggies at the shelters,                                                                                                                   
You know it will cost you much more.               

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Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, The World We Share

Humoring the headlines: August 29, 2019

Donald Trump’s Endvironmentalism By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO- At the recent G7 meeting, Donald Trump claimed, “I’m an environmentalist.” Was the term he actually uttered “endvironmentalist?”  Here’s a fact check. * The G7 devoted a session to climate change and decided to partially fund the effort to extinguish the fires in the Amazon.  Trump neither

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire