Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

I suppose I should start a photo-blog at Tumblr. But that would be yet another demand on my time. So here are a few pictures from the day af...

When Jacques Barzun was born, there was a Habsburg on the throne, and a Hohenzollern, and a Romanov. (And a Windsor). He first began teachin...

If you're visiting this blog, you're at the wrong place. This one is mostly dormant, while over here is the one which is sort of ac...

M colleagues and I at the Israel State Archives (ISA) have launched two new blogs, one in English and the other in Hebrew . Once we get int...

As I wrote last summer, I stopped blogging when I was appointed Israel's State Archivist. Being a high civil servant is not compatible w...

Nature is stronger than Man, as these photos demonstrate.

For whatever reason there seem to be many German readers of this blog. If any of them are interested in introducing themselves, starting Thu...

Here are some books I've heard good things about, in no particular order. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has written a memoir. A...

For all that I've tried once or twice, I've never quite managed to figure out what the 1st World War was all about. Something about ...

I'm offline most of the time these days, hence no blogging. Still, things can happen even in the real world out there. The other day, fo...

Don't get cross with me, but this story seems to me less than iron-clad.

Blogging is likely to be a bit slow here for the next few days. Too many other things going on. You can always read Haaretz to keep your spi...

By now we've all seen the footage of the incoming Tsunami rolling across fields and destroying everything in its wake. This film, howeve...

I don't know what to make of this story, except to say that the world is a curious place .

If anyone can explain this procedure , please feel free to explain in the comments section.

100 years ago today 146 people, mostly women, mostly new immigrants, many of them Jews, perished in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factor...

According to the Jerusalem Post, Israel is the first country to be setting up a field hospital in Japan . “I don’t know how or why it is th...

The few hundred Japanese engineers and technicians trying to head off nuclear catastrophe at Fukishima. Undoubtedly the world's top her...

I'm seriously looking into changing the format of this blog into something richer and more useful. The idea will be to have different se...

This blog is being voted on this week at Israellycool's site . The point is to have lots of people introduced to useful blogs they hadn...