Lawrence (Laurie) Baron, now retired, served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University. He served from 1988 to 2006 as director of SDSU’s Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. He was the founder in 1995 of the Western Jewish Studies Association.
He writes two satire columns for San Diego Jewish World: “Humoring the Headlines” under his byline, and “Hounding the Headlines,” under the byline of his dog Elona.
Books to his credit, available on Amazon, include:
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
The eclectic anarchism of Erich Muhsam (Men & movements in the history & philosophy of anarchism)
His most recent articles are:
“Making Room for the Jews: The House I Live In (1945),” AJS Perspectives, Summer 2023, 86-88.
“The Revolt of Job: Salvaging the Lost World of Rural Hungarian Hasidim,” Journal of Jewish Identities, 16:1-2 (January/July 2023), 181-198.
“Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema, in Armenian and Jewish Experience between Expulsion and Destruction, ed. Sarah M. Ross and Regina Randhofer (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), 267-296.
“The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors from Elaine May to Claudia Weill,” Jews and Gender (Studies in Jewish Civilization), ed. Leonard Greenspoon (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2021), 217-243.
The incident has stirred up a controversy, but I suspect it was a false flag operation to mask more sinister things. According to my sources, Trump wants to privatize Arlington if he becomes president. [Laurie Baron]
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Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USARobert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump. It is rumored that Trump, who previously referred to Kennedy as a “radical left liberal,” has promised Kennedy a post in his administration. Here’s some positions he would be qualified to hold. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: RFK Jr.’s Cabinet Post Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAWhat was telling is that the song from the movie Titanic implies Trump’s bid for his second term is sinking and that he is drowning like Jack in the film. One wonders what other messages his musical coordinator wants to convey with his selections of music for Trump’s appearances. Here are my predictions. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: Trump’s Campaign Songs Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAWhen a sane governor from a state with many lakes/ Becomes the candidate to be VP/ Appealing to women with children, cats, or both / Campaigning to save democracy. … [Laurie Baron]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USADonald Trump shocked the National Association of Black Journalists by revealing that Kamala Harris has identified as Indian until recently. His highly developed sense of ethnicity and race detects the actual backgrounds of the people he loathes. Here are some of the frauds he has exposed. {Laurie Baron}
Satire: The Arbiter of Biracialism Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USANow that Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee, former President Donald Trump’s supporters are labeling her the DEI candidate, implying that she attained all the positions she has held solely because she is a Black Asian American woman. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: DEI and the Candidates Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAThe second day of the Republican National Convention coincided with baseball’s All-Star Game. Worried that most viewers would watch the game rather than the convention, Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden’s team to a one inning game of baseball pitting the Milwaukee MAGAs against Biden’s team which Trump dubbed the Washington National Insiders. Here are some highlights. [Satire by Laurie Baron]
Satire: The Political All-Star Game Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Every four years in the United States, dogs choose an alpha dog to lead them. In the past both candidates were sufficiently tame and thus caused no alarm. That is not the case this year. Two old dogs are competing for the office. [“Elona Baron” as Barked to Laurie Baron}
Hounding the Headlines: The Aging Alpha Dog Choices Read More »
Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that presidents are above the law, that they are endowed by Jesus with certain inalienable rights, that among these are killing domestic and foreign enemies and unfettered liberty for economic enterprises and the pursuit of wealth. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: The Declaration of Subservience, July 4, 2024 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAAlthough he denounced the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision, Biden should consider invoking it if Trump wins the election. Then he should implement these policies: [Laurie Baron]
Satire: Good for the Gander Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAThe only way Biden can rectify the situation is to crush Trump in the next debate. Here’s what he must do then. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: Abate the Debate Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USALouisiana’s Republican governor has mandated the posting of the Ten Commandments in the state’s schools. When questioned whether this violated the constitutional separation of church and state, he replied that that wall was being dismantled and transferred to the border with Mexico. I wonder if what is posted will be the biblical version or the one Donald Trump issued when he was president. [Laurie Baron]
Satire: The Donalogue Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAOld man Biden/ That old man Biden./ He’s not a hater,/ Would be dictator/That old man Biden./ Why’s he polling behind? [Laurie Baron]
Satirical OpEd: Old Man Biden Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAIn response to the conviction of his son for lying about his drug addiction when purchasing a gun, Joe Biden reiterated that he would “accept the outcome of this case and continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.” What he did not say was … [Laurie Baron]
Satire: What Joe Biden Didn’t Say Read More »
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