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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Stephen Miller’s Christmas Carol  

I’m scheming for a white nation. 
Just like the way it used to be.                                                                                                        
No asylum seekers or border sneakers,
No more yearning to be free.   [Satire by Laurie Baron]        

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

If Democrats followed Trump’s example

Even after all the evidence presented at the House Impeachment Hearings, the American public opinion polls have not registered a significant shift in the numbers supporting impeachment and those opposed to it.  I believe this has nothing to do with the substance of the case against Trump and more to do with his ability to coin demeaning names for anyone who criticizes him.  Perhaps Michelle Obama was wrong.  Maybe we should abandon the high road and engage in name calling.  Here’s my list of suggested epithets: [Laurie Baron, PhD]

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The Conscientious Canine’s Thanksgiving Dilemma  

I should show solidarity with the turkeys of the world (the poultry not the defenders of the Golden Deceiver.)  Although I can’t read, I have heard the quote from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story:  “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” [Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron]

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Impeachment for doggy dummies

My owner is a news junkie.  For the past week, he has disturbed my precious slumber by watching the House impeachment inquiry on television.  Although the cats sleep so deeply that they haven’t listened to any of it, I haven’t been as fortunate.  Rather than waste my time tossing and turning, I have tried to grasp the charges against Trump so I can convey them to the dogs I meet on my walks.  The story goes something like this: [Elona Baron as told to Lawrence Baron, PhD]

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If dogs could vote

100 years ago American women received the right to vote.  I think it is time to consider canine suffrage.  For those who scoff at the idea of letting a domesticated animal with limited intelligence vote, consider that nearly 63,000,000 US citizens voted for the Golden Deceiver to be president, a man who has never read the Constitution or anything but his clippings as far as I can tell.  [Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron]

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K9fulness

My owner suffers from insomnia.  It has become so bad that he has begun seeing a Behavioral Therapist to teach him proper sleep hygiene.  I felt hurt that he didn’t consult with me first.  After all, I sleep most of the day and never had a problem with falling asleep or waking up at night.  Sometimes I sleep so deeply that I twitch my legs as if someone was rubbing my stomach.  Since he hasn’t heeded my barks of sleeping advice, I am writing this column to share some of my tips.  If it works, he can fire his therapist and give me bone. [Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron]

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