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2013
20 March 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘One-sided coverage in the “Lithuania Tribune”?’.
17 March 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘The last public statement of former Israeli Knesset member Marina Solodkin’.
6 March 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Vilnius street name proposed for rescuer. But please remove Nazi collaborator street names…’.
25 February 2013. Algemeiner.com: ‘Purim in Lithuania? A season for state-approved neo-Nazi city-center marches’ by Dovid Katz.
21 February 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Red-Brown Commission uses its website to call leading Holocaust survivor a “liar” and demand “apology from Jewish community”’ by Dovid Katz.
13 February 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Kaunas police confirm that neo-Nazi march on independence day proceeding with municipality’s blessing’.
27 January 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘US researcher is persuaded that the problem in Lithuania is called “Zuroff and Katz”…’ by Dovid Katz.
16 January 2013. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A Tale of two marches? LGBT Equality releases statement on authorities’ response to Baltic Pride 2013‘.
2012
13 December 2012. London Jewish News: ‘You cannot praise fascists and be pro-human rights’. Reprint in The Algemeiner.
6 December 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘An open letter to Ed Hirsch’.
5 December 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Why Monica Lowenberg’s petition is so important’.
1 December 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘The Holocaust in Lithuania, and its obfuscation, in Lithuanian sources’ by Yitzhak Arad [translated from Hebrew by Dovid Katz].
15 November 2012. The Times of Israel: ‘Efraim Zuroff, history’s lonely defender’.
3 September 2012. DefendingHistory.com: June 2009 corresopndence with Yad Vashem.
28 August 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Yad Vashem shocks Holocaust survivors by rejoining Lithuanian government’s “red-brown commission”’.
3 August 2012. London Jewish News: ‘Shoah Denial is being replaced by an illusive and delusive evil’ by Dovid Katz. On the Jewish News site (3 August issue, p. 11).
3 August 2012. Addition of Yiddish text for 20 January 2012 Seventy Years Declaration. As PDF.
2 August 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian foreign minister includes “historical memory policy” (= Double Genocide) among nation’s prime goals.
23 July 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Amherst’s NYBC caught up in Lithuanian government’s Jew-less, Yiddish-less PR library’.
18 July 2012. Algemeiner Journal: ‘Respectable memoir, some shrewd manipulation by an East European government — or both?’ by Dovid Katz [review of Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here. Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust].
17 July 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian foreign ministry planning to (ab)use EU presidency to push red-brown politics.
16 July 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Landsbergis. Then and now’ by Dovid Katz.
13 July 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Trilingual memorial plaque unveiled on Zhager town square’ by Dovid Katz.
15 June 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Reply to the Economist on Lithuania’s recent reburial of the 1941 Nazi puppet “prime minister”‘ by Dovid Katz [Also as comment on the Economist blog site].
21 May 2012. Algemeiner Journal: ‘An open letter to Yale history professor Timothy Snyder’ by Dovid Katz.
20 May 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Dramatic confrontation on the floor of the Lithuanian parliament’.
15 May 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘BNS report follows dramatic Donskis statement; Says event does not have VMU “Sanction”‘.
11 May 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Archbishop adds his blessing to the Nazi collaborator being reburied with full honors’.
11 May 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Day of shame (May 19th) can still be averted at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas’.
29 April 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Rabinowitz-Dorf PR campaign for Lithuanian embassy and “Fake Litvaks” backfires bigtime’.
24 April 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Baltic “Double Genocide” discourse slips into naive American Jewish articles on Lithuania’ by Dovid Katz.
20 April 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian government calls for “bigger investments from Litvaks” as South Africa’s Glasenberg is targeted’.
18 April 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Glorification of local Holocaust perpetrators in Lithuania’.
15 April 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian Foreign Ministry manipulates “Chicago Litvaks”’.
24 March 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuania’s embassy in Washington recruiting “useful academics” for discredited “red-brown” Commission’.
11 March 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Over 1000 neo-Nazis fill main Vilnius boulevard on Lithuanian Independence Day’ by Dovid Katz.
10 March 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Once again, moral abdication at the American Embassy in Vilnius?’
27 February 2012. YouTube: ‘A Jewish guy in Vilnius reflects on the neo-Nazi march (2012)’ by DovidFrom55thStreet [Dovid Katz].
17 February 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Joe Melamed, head of Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, calls on “Real Litvaks” to stay away from Tel Aviv “gala sham” on March 5th’.
15 February 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Tolerance march of 100 is cancelled in Kaunas; neo-Nazi march for 1000 going ahead’.
14 February 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Holocaust survivors and Litvak Jewry betrayed again, as Lithuania’s foreign minister slated to be “guest of honor” at Tel Aviv “Gala”‘.
12 February 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A hidden monument in Vilnius — hopelessly invisible?‘
3 February 2012. Algemeiner Journal: ‘The Seventy Years Declaration and the Simple Truth’ by Dovid Katz.
3 February 2012. Jewish Chronicle: ‘A fight over history’s tragic truth. Analysis’ by Dovid Katz. [PDF]
18 January 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Free speech reaffirmed by Vilnius judge in Algirdas Paleckis case’ by Dovid Katz.
2 January 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A reconstructed shtetl — minus its Jewish component’ by Dovid Katz.
1 January 2012. DefendingHistory.com: ’2012 New Year’s resolution for the prime ministers of the Baltic states’.
2011
North America lecture tour (2011)
Australia lecture tour (2011)
December 2011. East European Jewish Affairs (vol 41, no. 3, pp. 207-221): ‘The detonation of the Holocaust in 1941: a tale of two books’ [review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands and Alexander Prusin’s The Lands Between] by Dovid Katz.
22 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Popular daily has full front page spread on “The Jews”’.
19 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian Ministry of Defense honors “Lithuanian Activist Front” (LAF) Nazi collaborators’ by Dovid Katz.
19 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Mainstream Lithuanian news portal, Delfi.lt, again publishes antisemitic “ethnographic history”’.
16 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘”Double Genocide” permeates local antisemitic discourse in report on Efraim Zuroff’s Operation Last Chance II in Berlin’.
12 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Old stones speak to young pupils: Jewish gravestones in a Vilnius school yard. Photos by Richard Schofield. Text by Dovid Katz.
9 December 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Suspense in Vilnius as Paleckis verdict day nears’ by Dovid Katz.
28 November 2011. Jerusalem Post: ’Manipulation?’ (Letter to the Editor) [in reply to: 'Harley Felstein and Adrienne Oleck].
25 November 2011. Algemeiner Journal: ‘Hannah Rosenthal does it again’ by Dovid Katz.
18 November 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘The new HOLOCAUST room in the BASEMENT of the GENOCIDE museum in Vilnius’ by Dovid Katz (text) and Richard Schofield (photographs).
9 November 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Open debate, open society, and secret societies’ by Dovid Katz.
3 November 2011. Jerusalem Post: ‘UNESCO vote reveals Lithuanian duplicity’ by Dovid Katz. As PDF. Reprint in the Algemeiner Journal.
2 November 2011. Jerusalem Report / Jerusalem Post: ‘Lithuania assaults Holocaust memory’ by Danny Ben-Moshe.
October 2011. Centre News [Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, Australia]: ‘Understanding “Double Genocide”: a lethal new threat to Holocaust memory and honesty’ by Dovid Katz [date on print edition: September 2011].
3 November 2011. Jerusalem Post: ‘UNESCO vote reveals Lithuanian duplicity’ by Dovid Katz. As PDF. Reprint in the Algemeiner Journal.
October 2011. Centre News [Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, Australia]: ‘Understanding “Double Genocide”: a lethal new threat to Holocaust memory and honesty’ by Dovid Katz [date on print edition: September 2011].
24 October 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Hungarian National Day celebration in Vilnius celebrates Lithuanian “Forest Brother”; Two local fascists invited’ [by Dovid Katz].
28 September 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian foreign ministry’s two versions: for a Jewish audience (not for publication) and for “General” (proudly on website)’ [by Dovid Katz].
30 August 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Lithuanian authorities initiate prosecution against another Holocaust survivor’ [by Dovid Katz].
28 August 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘A scholar’s apt warning on ultranationalist abuse of history and historians’ by Dovid Katz.
5 May 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Three years later: neither charged nor cleared’ [by Dovid Katz].
3 May 2011. Winnipeg Jewish Review: ‘This year’s Yom Hashoah is different’ by Dovid Katz.
25 April 2011. Amy Shannon Liedy’s summary of Dovid Katz’s Kennan Institute (Woodrow Wilson Center) lecture in Washington DC (7 March 2001).
14 April 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Freedom of speech is not “pick and choose”. On the Paleckis trial in Vilnius’ by Dovid Katz.
3 April 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Has the Forward Association abandoned elementary ethics?’ by Dovid Katz.
28 March 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Foreign Ministry cooking another one-sided “open forum”, this time in — Kaunas’ by Dovid Katz.
7 March 2011. Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review: ‘Condemnation of communism does not require submission to Double Genocide, Holocaust Obfuscation, or the recent deterioration in civil society and free speech in Lithuania’ by Dovid Katz [reply to Rokas Grajauskas]. Also on DefendingHistory.com here.
3 January 2011. DefendingHistory.com: ‘When a “Human Rights Association” accepts and repeats the antisemitic canards in town’ by Dovid Katz.
2010
21 December 2010. The Guardian: ‘Why is the US silent on “double genocide”? While European countries have condemned the new Holocaust revisionism in the Baltics, America shows no moral leadership’ by Dovid Katz. In Russian.
15 December 2010. Alfa.lt: ‘An open letter to the Prime Minister of Lithuania on the eve of his visit to Israel’ by Dovid Katz.
3 December 2010. Tablet Magazine: ‘Conference call: the Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust education program have a dark history of their own’ by Dovid Katz. Extract on History News Network. On H-Net.
17 November 2010. Alfa.lt: ‘The Real Friend is the one who tells you when something is wrong’ by Dovid Katz.
10 November 2010. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Mr Lidington is right, but there is more to it’ by Dovid Katz. [revised version see item for 17 Nov]
November 2010. Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: [Reply to Barry Rubin] by Dovid Katz.
30 September 2010. The Guardian: ‘Why Red is not Brown in the Baltics. Unhappily, Timothy Snyder’s historical reassessment of the Nazi-Soviet pact coincides with Baltic ultra-nationalist agendas’ by Dovid Katz. Also appears on the Litvak Studies Institute website.
29 September 2010. The Baltic Times: ‘Letter to the Editor’ by Dovid Katz. PDF of 30 Sept print version.
22 September 2010. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Gentiles who take up Yiddish and the question of moral responsibility in Eastern Europe’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz.
September 2010. Personal statement on antisemitism in Lithuania.
1 September 2010. Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism: ‘Time to free Europe of this poison’ by Dovid Katz. Also appears on the Litvak Studies Institute website.
16 August 2010. HITB: ‘Human Rights — and Holocaust Obfuscation — in the Baltic States. Letter to the Editor (Response to Clifford J. Levy’s report) by Dovid Katz.
25 June 2010. Algemeiner Journal: ‘Lithuanian government’s “Genocide Museum” in Vilnius does not mention the Holocaust!’ by Dovid Katz.
27 May 2010. Jewish Chronicle: ‘It is time for Cameron to reject the EU nutters’ by Dovid Katz.
3 May 2010. Tablet Magazine: ‘The crime of surviving’ by Dovid Katz.
24 February 2010. Jewish Ledger: ‘Q & A with Dovid Katz’ by Cindy Mindell. PDF.
8 January 2010. Guardian: ‘Halting Holocaust Obfuscation. The Baltic ultranationalists rewriting east European history as an equal Nazi-Soviet “double genocide” must be stopped’ by Dovid Katz. Alternate link [reprint in the Algemeiner Journal]. Republication in Russian.
2009
30 December 2009. Jewish Week (Washington): ‘Don’t let the Holocaust be rewritten out of history’ by Dovid Katz.
4 December 2009. The Algemeiner Journal: ‘The Prague Declaration is Europe’s New Antisemitic Poison’ by Dovid Katz and Clemens Heni. Also on Wissenschaft und Publizistik als Kritik.
30 November 2009. The Jewish Chronicle: ‘Tories must reject “Double Genocide” proponents. Alliance with those who would downgrade the Holocaust is a grave mistake’ by Dovid Katz.
31 October 2009. Irish Times: ‘Cameron must end Tories’ far-right fling’ by Dovid Katz.
30 May 2009. Irish Times: ‘Genocide Industry has hidden agenda. Attempts at equalizing historical wrongs are often aimed at Holocaust Obfuscation’ by Dovid Katz; alternate link.
21 May 2009. Jewish Chronicle: ‘Prague’s declaration of disgrace: A European attempt to equate Communism with Nazism will falsify history’ by Dovid Katz; alternate link.
12 May 2009. Speech delivered at the book launch for Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in Lithuania at Vilnius Old Town Hall.
February 2009. ‘Epilogue’ (pp 55-58) in Dovid Katz, Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks.
January 2009. Preface to The Sounds of Silence. Lithuanian version of the preface, translated by Tomas Venclova.
2008
15 August 2008. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Rokhl Margolis, 86, cannot visit her hometown Vilna because she fought against the Nazis’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz. Part II.
25 July 2008. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Will the world remain silent as a new and more cunning form of Holocaust Denial comes before — the European Parliament?’ [in Yiddish] by Dovid Katz. Part II.
2007
30 November 2007. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Master US diplomat in Vilnius: Joe Boski’ by Dovid Katz). II.
20 July 2007. In honor of Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky’s 85th Birthday. Part II. Part III.
20 March 2007. Algemeyner Zhurnal: ‘Noah Shneidman’s Vilna Ghetto boxing medal’ (by Dovid Katz). Follow-up article on 16 August 2007.
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