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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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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new. It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film Festival becoming the first Jewish shorts film festival in the world. As the […]
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Brett Kavanaugh conferred with White House advisers on how to deny the charge of attempted rape. They presented him with a number of alibis employed by powerful men in similar situations and counseled him to choose one and adapt it to his circumstances. * Bill Clinton: “I did not try to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAEnhanced Interrogations to Identify Anonymous By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — President Trump has decided that polygraphing all the associates he suspects of writing the anonymous OpEd in the failing New York Times will not not yield the identity of the treasonous culprit. He has appointed Dick Cheney to serve as the Presidential Grand Inquisitor
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USASmear: Bunk about the Whitehouse By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To counter Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House, members of the Trump administration have published a book challenging Woodward’s accounts of what they allegedly said about the president. Here are some excerpts: * James Mattis: Since I know the president has more
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatirePolitical Singing Groups Cover Classic Rock Songs: In Memory of Aretha Franklin: “A Change is Gonna Come” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Godspeed Mac, “Go Your Own Way” * Don Petty and the Lawbreakers, “Free Fallin” * Guns and Lobbies (Official Band of the NRA), “Live and Let Die” * The Supremes, “Let Me Go the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireAdages for the Trump Era By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything for two days until you are pressured to say something positive you don’t really mean. * A snitch in time almost ought to be outlawed. * Late to bed, early to rise makes
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAFlipper, a Fable By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Once upon a time, there lived a pod of whales who ruled the coastal waters of the United States. The obese white whale leading the Pod referred to himself as PODUS. He had the largest round blowhole out of which he constantly spouted grandiose schemes, insults, lies, and
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire13 Grounds to Strip Your Clearance By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Federal employees can lose their security clearance for thirteen reasons. Criticizing the president after leaving office is not one. Since Trump isn’t familiar with these reasons, here’s a song set to the tune of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover to teach him. Former agents
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireTrump’s Bedminster Skimming List By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−In case he finds time between golfing, tweeting, and watching Fox News, Donald Trump brought some books to skim [he never reads anything longer than an executive order] whose titles intrigued him. Here’s his skimming list and why he wants to skim these books. * The Brothers
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireObfuscation not Obstruction of Justice By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−If Donald Trump is interrogated by Robert Mueller, this is how some of the testimony might sound like. RM: How is it credible that your son, son-in-law, or campaign manage never told you either before or after about their meeting with a Russian lawyer to get
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Though he didn’t think it was an urgent matter, President Trump convened the first meeting of intelligence agency officials to discuss what steps could be taken to prevent foreign meddling in the upcoming mid-term elections. A knowledgeable source says that their policy recommendations and his differed sharply. * Recommendations from the
Humoring the headlines: July 29, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireDouble Negativity By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — President Trump claimed that he had misspoken when declaring in Helsinki that he saw no reason for believing Russia interfered in the 2016 American elections by attributing his error to leaving out the word not. “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why I
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireTrump-Putin Behind the Scenes By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−President Trump’s kept his IPhone in a suit pocket during his private meeting with President Putin and left it on for Sean Hannity to listen in. Before Fox News could broadcast it, I obtained an abridged transcript of the conversation between the two leaders: * Trump: Vlad,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNew Words for the Trump Lexicon By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When I get exasperated about the President and policies, I invent words. * Auldlangiety: Fear that the complexions of the citizenry aren’t as light as they used to be. * Dibromacy: Negotiating concessions only with authoritarian alpha males. * Dispencesation: When things get so bad
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