Bernard Lewis Remembered

Flashback: According to @yudapearl...#OnThisDay (July 21) in 2003, Bernard Lewis wrote about being a Jew (An excerpt from #BernardLewis's contribution to Pearl's compilation "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” jewishjournal.com/judaism/obitua…

Meant to post this a couple of days ago. By Jonathan Torop - "A Personal Journey Through the Middle East From Edward Said to Yasser Arafat" (including re his relationship with Bernard Lewis) via @IraStoll's "The Editors" theeditors.com/p/a-personal-j… @JonathanTorop

From "Son of..." "Antisemitism Without Israel - A few Musings" open.substack.com/pub/michaellew… #Antisemitism

Bernard Lewis in Princeton, New Jersey in late July or early August in 1976 @Princeton

This month, @HusseinAboubak, the insightful historian of ideas, draws on Bernard Lewis's great work What Went Wrong? arguing that Lewis had it wrong, too, and that what ails Islam today is what ails us: a modern, post-Enlightment collapse of meaning. mosaicmagazine.com/essay/history-…

Half-a-century ago; the @UN's “Zionism Is Racism” effort begins in Mexico City at the first UN International Women's Conference (culminating in Nov 1975 with the UN General Assembly adopting resolution #3379). As Bernard Lewis wrote..... open.substack.com/pub/michaellew… #AntiZionism

From "Son of....!" Today marks 75 Years since #Israel adopted "The Law of Return" "ON THIS DAY" inn 1950. A few random thoughts about the Welcoming Haven for Jews across the Globe open.substack.com/pub/michaellew… #Israel #Jews #Zionism #OnthisDay

Marking 50 Years (1975) since Bernard Lewis celebrated his first July 4 as a Permanent Resident of the United States at @Princeton & @the_IAS (Subsequently becoming US Citizen) #BernardLewis' then just-published book from @PrincetonUPress "History: Remembered Recovered Invented"

#OnThisDay in 1979: Attending a wedding in the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs (Park Synagogue). [At the time of the photos, Bernard Lewis was 63]

July 1st (2025) Deadline to submit for @ASMEASCHOLARS 2025 Bernard Lewis Prize on the subject of Antisemitism

Statement from Tel Aviv University this morning @TelAvivUni "This morning, a missile launched from Iran struck near the Tel Aviv University campus..." @AFTAU

Flashback 2 Years today....#OnThisDay in 2023 at @TelAvivUni's @DayanCenter "Memorial Lecture in Honor of Bernard Lewis." Introduction from Uzi Rabi, followed by Itamar Rabinovich and Martin Kramer talking about Bernard Lewis youtube.com/watch?v=ACW1d9… @Martin_Kramer @uzi_uzirabi

Flashback 7 years today: @Martin_Kramer in June 7th 2018 dated @ForeignAffairs "The Conflicted Legacy of Bernard Lewis - A Clash of Interpretations" (Subscription required) foreignaffairs.com/articles/middl…

Tomorrow, June 1st is the Yahrzeit for my Father, Bernard Lewis who passed 7 years ago on Sivan 5. (As I noted earlier; in the Western Calendar today also marks the birthday of Bernard Lewis - born May 31, 1916)

Bernard Lewis: Born "On This Day" May 31st in 1916 - the same day as "The Battle of Jutland" - and 18 months before The Balfour Declaration!

Flashback to April or May 1976: Bernard Lewis visiting Kibbutz Kfar Blum in Northern Israel. (His first meeting with his future daughter-in-law) #KfarBlum

Just "for the record:" Seven years ago today: The funeral of Bernard Lewis was held at Trumpledor cemetery in Tel Aviv

Flashback seven years...."On This Day" (May 19/Sivan 5) in 2018: The passing of Bernard Lewis (Z"L) just a couple of weeks short of turning 102. (Actual Yahrzeit June 1, 2025) open.substack.com/pub/michaellew… #BernardLewis

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Flashback 7 Years...#OnThisDay in 2018: Israel was celebrating its 70th Birthday while that day, the US Embassy was opening in Jerusalem. At the Israeli embassy in Washington DC: Awarding medals honoring 70 Americans. (A few days later; Bernard Lewis died) x.com/LewisRemembere…