Dovid Katz
Publications in 2012
The City in the Moonlight. Stories of the Old-time
Lithuanian Jews. By Dovid Katz. Translated by Barnett Zumoff. Ktav Publishing: Jersey
City 2012, 138 pp.
Ostjűdische Geschichten aus dem alten Litauen. Von Dovid Katz. Übersetzung von Melitta Depner. Salon Literaturverlag:
Munich 2012, 329 pp.
Litvish:
An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish.
A Work in Progress.
The Language of Litvak Gravestones: A Cultural Dictionary. A Work in Progress.
“Wird Deutschland jetzt der selbsternannte Vorkämpfer der
Holocaust-Verschleierung?” in Clemens Heni and Thomas Weidauer (eds.), Ein
Super-GAUck. Politische Kultur im neuen Deutschland, Edition Critic: Berlin
2012, pp.101-105.
Review of Adam Michnik, In Search of Lost Meaning: The
New Eastern Europe, in East European Jewish Affairs, 42.2, pp.
187-191.
“You Cannot Praise Fascists and be Pro Human Rights” in the
London Jewish News, 13 December 2012. Reprint in The Algemeiner.
“Prank Email that Tries to Derail Litvak Community is
Exposed: But is Chanukah Supposed to be April Fools?” in Defending History,
11 December 2012.
“An Open Letter to Ed Hirsch” in Defending History,
6 December 2012.
Translator [from Hebrew] and editor, Yitzhak Arad, “The
Holocaust in Lithuania, and its Obfuscation, in Lithuanian Sources” in Defending
History,1 December 2012.
“Efraim Zuroff, History’s Lonely Defender” in The Times
of Israel, 15 November 2012.
“Kristallnacht Becomes PR Hook for Double Genociders at
Berlin Events of the ‘Prague Process Platform’” in Defending History, 9
November 2012.
“Jewish Center in Ukraine Apparently Duped into Honoring a
Nazi Collaborationist Organization” in Defending History, 1 November
2012.
http://defendinghistory.com/jewish-center-in-ukraine-apparently-duped-into-honoring-a-nazi-collaborationist-organization/44886
“Canadian Prime Minister Praises Holocaust-Distorting
Museum in Ukraine” in Defending History, 22 October 2012.
http://defendinghistory.com/canadian-prime-minister-praises-holocaust-distorting-museum-in-ukraine/44332
“Tel Aviv’s Leivick House Releases 2009 Video of Ambassador
Chen Ivri Apter” in Defending History, 21 October 2012.
http://defendinghistory.com/tel-avivs-leivick-house-releases-2009-video-of-ambassador-chen-ivri-apter/44176
“Lithuanian President’s Decree on ‘Red-Brown Commission’ is
Re-issued with ‘New Sentence’” in Defending History, 17 October 2012.
http://defendinghistory.com/presidential-decree-on-red-brown-commission-is-changed-by-one-line-praised-by-us-embassy-in-newest-bad-to-cover-main-goals/44101
“Israel Chronicle” [of Lithuanian-related Holocaust issues]
in DefendingHistory.com, 7 October 2012.
“Samples of the Work of a Holocaust-Twisting, Antisemitic,
Homophobic Envelope Maker” in DefendingHistory.com, 6 October 2012.
“Yad Vashem Sinking Deeper in Lithuanian ‘Commission’
Morass with Political Campaign for Compensation from Russia” in DefendingHistory.com, 26 September 2012.
“Holocaust Commemoration Vilnius Style, with an Israeli
Twist: Menachem Begin and the Jail House Rock” in DefendingHistory.com, 24 September 2012.
“June 2009 Correspondence with Yad Vashem” in DefendingHistory.com,
3 September 2012.
“Yad Vashem Shocks Holocaust Survivors by Rejoining
Lithuanian Government’s ‘Red-Brown Commission’” in DefendingHistory.com,
28 August 2012.
“Executive Director of ‘Red-Brown Commission’ Doubts
Lithuanian Jews were Killed ‘on a racial basis’ before Arrival of German Forces in 1941” in DefendingHistory.com,
16 August 2012.
“Shoah Denial is being Replaced by an Illusive and Delusive
Evil” in London Jewish News, 3
August 2012.
Yiddish translation of the Seventy Years Declaration in DefendingHistory.com [posted 3 August 2012].
“Lithuanian Foreign Minister Includes ‘Historical Memory
Policy’ (= Double Genocide) among Nation’s Prime Goals” in DefendingHistory.com,
2 August 2012. Republished in Operation Last Chance.
“Pursuing Perpetrators, Preserving History, and Educating
the Next Generation: A Review of Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance”
in Prism (Yeshiva University), vol. 4 (Spring 2012), pp.136-138.
“Respectable Memoir, Some Shrewd Manipulation by an East
European Government ― or Both?” [review
of Ellen Cassedy’s We are Here] in the Algemeiner Journal, 18
July 2012.
“Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Planning to (Ab)use EU
Presidency to Push Red-Brown Politics” in DefendingHistory.com, 17 July
2012.
“Landsbergis. Then and Now.” in DefendingHistory.com,
16 July 2012.
“Trilingual Memorial Plaque Unveiled on Zhager Town
Square” in DefendingHistory.com,
13 July 2012.
“Reply to the Economist on Lithuania’s Recent Reburial of
the 194 Nazi Puppet “Prime Minister” in DefendingHistory.com,
15 June 2012. Also posted in Comments to the Economist online article by
E[dward] L[ucas].
“Congratulating Algimantas Kasparavičius who Gets it
Right: Trying to Manage History is a Big-Time Loser for Mature Foreign Policy”
in DefendingHistory.com, 30 May 2012.
“VMU
in Kaunas Sinking Further into Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis Morass, as
Historians Join Glorifiers for Yet Another Event” in DefendingHistory.com,
23 May 2012.
“An Open Letter to Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder”
in Algemeiner Journal, 21 May 2012 [in print edition: 25 May, pp. 2,
4,5].
“Lithuanian
Newspaper Accuses Kaunas Rector of Misleading Parliament about Whether He Knew
in Advance of VMU’s Planned Conference To Honor Wartime Nazi Puppet Prime
Minister” in DefendingHistory.com, 21 May 2012.
“Tim
Snyder, in Vilnius, Comments Publicly on the Reburial and Glorification of 1941
Nazi Puppet Prime Minister” in DefendingHistory.com, 19 May 2012.
“Lithuania’s
Prime Minister and Culture Minister Personally Signed off on €8,700 (US
$11,000) Expenditure to Honor Wartime Fascist Leader” in DefendingHistory.com,
18 May 2012.
“Want to Honor the Head
of the 1941 Nazi Puppet Government? Website Claims Seimas Will Provide Free
Transportation” in DefendingHistory.com, 17 May 2012.
“Parliament’s Public Relations Department Posts Revised
Schedule of Events to Honor Nazi Collaborator ‘Prime Minister’ Juozas
Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis)” in DefendingHistory.com, 16 May 2012.
“BNS Report Follows Dramatic Donskis Statement; Says Event
does not have VMU ‘Sanction’” in DefendingHistory.com, 15 May 2012.
“MEP
Donskis Condemns Events to Honor Holocaust Collaborator Ambrazevičius” in DefendingHistory.com, 15 May 2012.
“Archbishop
Adds his Blessing to the Nazi Collaborator being Reburied with Full Honors” in DefendingHistory.com,
11 May 2012.
“Day
of Shame (May 19th) Can Still be Averted at Vytautas Magnus University in
Kaunas” in DefendingHistory.com, 11 May 2012.
“‘Prime
Minister’ of Lithuania’s 1941 Nazi Puppet Government to be Glorified,
Re-interred and Subject of a Commemorative Conference at Vytautas Magnus
University” in DefendingHistory.com, 3 May 2012.
“‘Moderate
Litvak’ Status is Conferred by his Highness, the Norwegian Property Magnate cum
Editor-in-Chief of Vilnius” in DefendingHistory.com, 1 May 2012.
“Rabinowitz-Dorf PR Campaign for Lithuanian Embassy and
‘Fake Litvaks’ Backfires Bigtime” in DefendingHistory.com, 30 April
2012.
“Neo-Nazi Youth Organization is Admitted into National
“Lithuanian Council of Youth Organizations” (a recipient of European Union
“Structural Funds”) in DefendingHistory.com, 30 April 2012.
“Baltic ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse Slips into Naive
American Jewish Articles on Lithuania” in DefendingHistory.com, 24 April
2012.
“Lithuanian Government Calls for ‘ Bigger Investments from
Litvaks’ as South Africa’s Glasenberg is Targeted’ in DefendingHistory.com,
20 April 2012.
“Jesus in Yiddish” (Last Words column) in Jewish
Renaissance (London), 7, 3 April 2012, p. 52.
“Lithuania’s Embassy in Washington Recruiting ‘Useful
Academics’ for Discredited ‘Red-Brown’ Commission” in DefendingHistory.com, 24
March 2012.
“1500
Honor the Waffen SS at Riga’s Liberty Monument; Event is Praised by Latvia’s
President, Condemned by Council of Europe’s Commission on Racism” in DefendingHistory.com,
16 March 2012.
European
Commission website: “Martin Schulz, EP President, meeting with Dovid Katz
― Handing over the [70 Years] Declaration on the Final Solution of the
Wannsee Conference”, 14 March 2012.
“Over
1000 neo-Nazis Fill Main Vilnius Boulevard on Lithuanian Independence Day” in DefendinHistory.com, 11 March 2012.
“March
11th: A Grand Opportunity for the Lithuanian Human Rights Community
― and the People of Vilnius” in DefendingHistory.com, 4 March
2012.
“Zingeris
Statement on Planned Match 11th neo-Nazi march fails to mention
― the neo-Nazi March” in DefendingHistory.com, 28 February 2012.
“Council
of Europe’s Commission Against Racism and Intolerance Condemns Latvia’s Waffen
SS Parades and Celebration of Hitler’s 1941 Invasion” in DefendingHistory.com,
21 February 2012.
“300
Neo-Nazis March through the Center of Kaunas on Lithuanian Independence Day;
They are Addressed by Members of Parliament” in DefendingHistory.com, 16
February 2011.
“Holocaust
Survivors to Demonstrate outside Tel Aviv “Sellout Gala” Slated for March 5th”
in DefendingHistory.com, 14 February 2012.
“The
Hidden Monument of Vilnius” in DefendingHistory.com, 12 February 2012.
“The Seventy Years Declaration and the Simple Truth” in Algemeiner
Journal, 3 February 2012.
“A Fight over History’s Tragic Truth” in the Jewish
Chronicle, 2 [3] February 2012.
“The Seventy Years Declaration” [coauthored with Danny
Ben-Moshe] in DefendingHistory.com, 20 January 2012.
“Free Speech Reaffirmed by Vilnius Judge in Algirdas
Paleckis Case” in DefendingHistory.com, 18 January 2012.
“Mainstream Daily ‘Lietuvos rytas’: A New High-End Home for
Antisemitism in Lithuania?” in DefendingHistory.com, 16 January 2012.
“A Reconstructed Shtetl ― Minus its Jewish Component”
in DefendingHistory.com, 2 January 2012.