Dovid Katz
Publications in 2011
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“The Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish: On the Status of
Maps in Linguistic Research” by
Giedrė Beconytė and Dovid Katz in Geodesy and Cartography,
37(3), 2011: 119-124.
“The Language of Litvak Gravestones: A Cultural
Dictionary” (A Work in Progress).
“Popular Daily has Full Front-Page Spread on ‘The
Jews’” in DefendingHistory.com,
22 December 2011.
“Lithuanian Ministry of Defense Honors ‘Lithuanian
Activist Front’ (LAF) Nazi Collaborators”
in DefendingHistory.com, 19 December 2011.
“Mainstream Lithuanian News Portal, Delfi.lt, Again
Publishes Antisemitic ‘Ethnographic History’” in DefendingHistory.com,
19 December 2011.
“‘Double Genocide’ Permeates Local Antisemitic
Discourse in Report on Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance II in Berlin” in DefendingHistory.com,
16 December 2011.
“Old Stones Speak to Young Pupils: Jewish Gravestones
in a Vilnius School Yard. Photos by Richard Schofield” in DefendingHistory.com, 12 December
2011.
“Manipulation?”
[Letter to the Editor] in the Jerusalem Post, 28 November 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dovid-Katz-letter-in-Jerusalem-Post-28-Nov-2011.pdf
“Hannah Rosenthal does it again” in the Algemeiner
Journal, 25 November 2011.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/11/25/hannah-rosenthal-does-it-again
“Open debate, open society, and secret societies” on DefendingHistory.com,
9 November 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/open-debate-open-society-and-secret-societies/25240
“UNESCO vote reveals Lithuanian duplicity” in the Jerusalem
Post, 3 November 2011.
“Understanding ‘Double Genocide’: a lethal new threat
to Holocaust memory and honesty” in Centre
News [Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, Australia], October 2011 [date on
print edition: September 2011].
“Seven solutions for rapid and constructive
transformation of Lithuanian-Jewish relations”
on DefendingHistory.com, October 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/7-solutions
“Hungarian National Day Celebration in Vilnius
Celebrates Lithuanian ‘Forest Brother’; Two Local Fascists Invited” on DefendingHistory.com, 24 October
2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/hungarian-national-day-celebration-in-vilnius-celebrates-lithuanian-forest-brothers/25081
“Head of History Institute, speaking at ‘Bloodlands’
event at the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, excoriates Holocaust survivors who
joined the anti-Nazi partisans” on DefendingHistory.com, 30 September
2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/vilnius-historians-at-book-launch-for-lithuanian-edition-of-bloodlands-attack-holocaust-survivors-who-joined-the-resistance-try-to-equalize-nazi-and-soviet-collaboration/24072
“Lithuanian foreign minister inserts red-brown
discourse into Austrian extradition case” on DefendingHistory.com, 28 September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-foreign-minister-inserts-red-brown-discourse-into-austrian-extradition-case/23861
“Lithuanian foreign ministry’s two versions: for a
Jewish audience (not for publication) and for ‘General’ (proudly on website” on
DefendingHistory.com, 28 September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/new-confusion-over-lithuanian-foreign-ministry-versions-for-jews-and-general/23912
“Lithuanian foreign ministry gloats, as Yivo’s position
continues to confuse” on DefendingHistory.com, 23 September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/confusion-over-yivos-decision-on-surrendering-vilnius-treasures-shortly-to-a-government-yivo-room/23242
“Yad Vashem withdraws invitation to Lithuanian minister
over campaign against Joe Melamed; British parliamentarians move an ‘early day
motion’; Melamed speaks eloquently at Yad Vashem, blasts efforts to glorify
Holocaust perpetrators as ‘heroes’” on DefendingHistory.com, 22
September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/yad-vashem-withdraws-invitation-to-lithuanian-minister-over-campaign-against-joe-melamed-british-parliamentarians-move-an-early-day-motion/23380
“Yivo director sends new circular to staff, refining
Lithuanian government talking points; claims support of Veidlinger and
Zipperstein for (inaccurate) public statement” on DefendingHistory.com,
13 September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/director-of-yivo-sends-new-circular-to-staff-citing-support-of-veidlinger-and-zipperstein/22170
“Director of Yivo sends circular to staff, taking on the
role of Manhattan office of Lithuanian government’s PR department; calls
Holocaust survivors ‘helpless’ and ‘ageing’” on DefendingHistory.com, 9
September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/director-of-yivo-circulates-document-to-entire-staff-taking-on-the-role-of-pr-department-for-the-lithuanian-government/22157
“Holocaust survivors from Lithuania protest Yivo’s
decision to honor the foreign minister of Lithuania at Vilna Ghetto
Commemoration” on DefendingHistory.com,
6 September 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/holocaust-survivors-from-lithuania-protest-yivos-decision-to-honor-the-foreign-minister-of-lithuania-at-vilna-ghetto-commemoration/21555
“Lithuanian authorities initiated prosecution against
another Holocaust survivor” on DefendingHistory.com,
30 August 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-authorities-initiate-prosecution-against-another-holocaust-survivor/21693
“Et tu, Yivo? Holocaust survivors jolted by plan for
Lithuanian foreign minister to be ‘guest of honor’ at Vilna Ghetto commemoration”
on DefendingHistory.com, 28 August 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/et-tu-yivo-2011-holocaust-survivor-community-is-jolted-by-yivo-plan-to-honor-the-lithuanian-foreign-minister-on-22-september/21195
“A scholar’s apt warning on ultranationalist abuse of
history and historians” on DefendingHistory.com, 28 August 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/a-scholar%e2%80%99s-apt-warning-on-ultranationalist-abuse-of-history-and-historians/21262
“Mainstream Sajudis organization joins call for
increased commemoration of local 1941 Holocaust perpetrators” on DefendingHistory.com,
27 August 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/mainstream-sajudis-organization-joins-call-for-increased-glorification-of-local-1941-holocaust-perpetrators/21373
“Far right organization, led by Genocide Center’s
‘specialist’, publishes a list of enemies including advisor to the Lithuanian
Jewish community” on DefendingHistory.com, 29 July 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/far-right-organization-led-by-genocide-centers-specialist-publishes-a-list-of-enemies-including-advisor-to-the-lithuanian-jewish-community/20706
“A Speech Never Spoken at Plungyán (Plungė)” on DefendingHistory.com,
20 July 2011.
“The Denial that is Part of Holocaust Obfuscation:
Second Day of the Lithuanian Parliament’s Conference” on DefendingHistory.com,
30 June 2011.
“In Delirium of Obfuscation: First Day of the
Lithuanian Parliament’s Conference on the 70th Anniversary of
Hitler’s Attack on the USSR” on DefendingHistory.com,
29 June 2011.
http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/first-day-of-lithuanian-parliament-conference-is-a-delirium-of-obfuscation/18423
“Three Years Later: Neither Charged nor Cleared” on DefendingHistory.com, 5 May 2011.
http://defendinghistory.com/?p=416
“This Year’s Yom Hashoah is Different” in Winnipeg
Jewish Review.
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1098&sec=1&title=EDITOR%27S_PICK%3A_THIS_YEAR%27S_YOM_HASHOAH_IS_DIFFERENT
Amy Shannon Liedy’s summary of Dovid Katz’s Kennan
Institute (Woodrow Wilson Center) lecture in Washington DC, posted 25 April
2011.
“Freedom of Speech is Not ‘Pick and Choose’: On The
Paleckis Trial in Vilnius” on DefendingHistory.com, 14 April 2011.
“Has the Forward Association abandoned Elementary
Ethics?” on DefendingHistory.com, 3 April 2011.
http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/has-the-forward-association-abandoned-elementary-ethics/14342
“Right of Reply: Condemnation of Communism Does Not
Require Submission to Double Genocide, Holocaust Obfuscation, or the Recent
Deterioration in Civil Society and Free Speech in Lithuania” in Lithuanian
Foreign Policy Review, 7 March 2011.
“Lithuanian Jews, Holocaust Survivors, Specialists who
Disagree with Lithuanian Government ― Shut Out of London Conference” on DefendingHistory.com,
1 February 2011.
“When a ‘Human Rights Association’ Accepts and Repeats
the Antisemitic Canards in Town” on DefendingHistory.com, 3 January 2011.