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.
Please impeach him for all his sins.
I’ve grown tired of his “wins.”
Nancy waited much too long
To avoid offending MAGA throngs.
Humoring the Headlines: September 25, 2019 Read More »
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This is the first time I am residing with a Jewish family that celebrates what I think is called the High Collie Days. I’m not exactly sure what that entails, but I want to fit in. Tomorrow night is Sleek Coat, and, I definitely have one. People recite prayers and readings about forgiveness. I might skip it because I haven’t attacked any dogs, bit any humans, or scared any people in the past year.
Hounding the Headlines: September 20, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump: “The [energy efficient] bulbs that we’re being forced to use – number one, to me, most importantly, the light is no good. I always look orange.” No, the lights in your tanning booth make you look orange, President Raccoon Eyes!” * Donald Trump: “Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked.
Humoring the headlines: September 18, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireI heard this week that the Golden Deceiver fired John Bolton. What did he expect when he appointed Bolton? From my own experience, I don’t want to be near two alpha dogs when they are in the same room. The biting, the growling, and the marking of territory guarantee that eventually one of them is going to send his rival packing with his legs between his tail or, in Bolton’s case, under his moustache.
Hounding the Headlines: September 13, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireOn Monday President Trump told reporters: “I don’t want to allow people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.” The seeds of his 2020 stump speech have been planted. Here’s our forecast of what he’ll say.
Humoring the Headlines: September 11, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireMy owner writes parodies of songs and suggested I try my paw at it. I heard this old Patti Paige record and decided to update it.
How much is that puppy in the window?
The one who is sold at a store.
Unlike the doggies at the shelters,
You know it will cost you much more.
Hounding the Headlines: September 8, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, The World We ShareClimate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.” Why doesn’t the President impose a tariff on China on exports of droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, hot weather, melting glaciers, pollution, rising sea levels, and torrential rains to the USA?
Humoring the Headlines: September 5, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABeware of Human By Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−On my walks in the neighborhood, I see a lot of Beware of Dog signs. Why don’t I ever see any Beware of Human signs? There are approximately 88,000,000 dogs in the United States, and, 49 Americans died from dog bites last year.
Hounding the Headlines: September 3, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAFamous Working Dogs By Elona Baron as Told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−When my owners take me for a walk, other dogs bark at me. People think it’s an expression of aggression, but actually it’s the way dogs communicate to each other since we don’t have IPawPads. After my Dog Day column appeared, they’ve been
Hounding the headlines: September 1, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & SatireDonald Trump’s Endvironmentalism By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO- At the recent G7 meeting, Donald Trump claimed, “I’m an environmentalist.” Was the term he actually uttered “endvironmentalist?” Here’s a fact check. * The G7 devoted a session to climate change and decided to partially fund the effort to extinguish the fires in the Amazon. Trump neither
Humoring the headlines: August 29, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNational Dog Day By Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-National Dog Day is August 26th. Rather than growl about why dogs only get a day instead of a celebratory month, I want to provide sketches of famous dogs. Most are real, but some I imagined while waiting endless hours for my masters
Hounding the Headlines: August 25, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & SatirePresidential Prayers By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−“Our President, who was Chosen, hollow is your fame. You’ve made us numb, with Tweets so dumb, on Obama’s birth in Kenya and not here. Give us this day our daily dread, and imprison your enemies as you have asylum seekers. And lead us into stagflation, while failing to
Humoring the headlines: August 24, 2019 Read More »
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This story was updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A week before the November 2018 election, 17 San Diego-area rabbis signed a letter denouncing Rep. Duncan Hunter‘s “fear mongering” attacks on the Palestinian ancestry of Christian opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar. They said the Republican congressman’s attacks on the
The Jest Is Commentary By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Politicians have made insane remarks in the past week. In a just world, their stupidity automatically would elicit these comments. Iowa Congressman Steve King: “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest?
Humoring the headlines: August 21, 2019 Read More »
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