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George Jochnowitz
Personal blog · jochnowitz.net/Essayshistoryculture
George Jochnowitz's personal blog at jochnowitz.net covers history and culture. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this author's essays on Judeo-Italian dialects and on Chomsky's politics as references. The comments only cite the essays and do not judge the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Judeo-Italian is a group of Italian dialects. [1] [1] http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/Judeo-Italian.html
Comment linking /Essays/Judeo-Italian.html
on “Dormant for five centuries, Jewish life in Italy’s far south is stirring”Submitted We Flee China (1989) as a story · 14 points
HN discussionIs it the responsibility of intellectuals to cheer-lead for Hezbollah? To label a Holocaust denier and anti-semite "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort"? To minimise the Cambodian genocide? [Refs: http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/chomsky_and_hol_1... , http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/archives/000155.htm... , http://wernercohn.com/Chomsky.html , http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/ExtremistPo…
Comment linking /Essays/ExtremistPolReg.html
on “Chomsky's “The Responsibility of Intellectuals””