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Dr. Norman Berdichevsky

Dr. Norman Berdichevsky nberdichevsky.com, Ph.D. - Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974, is an author, freelance writer, editor, researcher, lecturer, translator and teacher with sophisticated communications skills.

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Norman Berdichevsky:

A Proposal for the Muslim Refugees Clamoring to Enter Europe

Every night on a dozen or more West European television channels, (Americans, by and large are still unaware of this chaos because of the geographic separation of a continent), the news programs bring into people’s homes, heart wrenching pictures of tens of thousands of destitute refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other Muslim majority regions in Africa, about 98% of whom are Muslims, clamoring to enter Europe.
- Sunday, August 30, 2015

Geography, History, and the Crimean Crisis

Both “liberals” such as Hillary Clinton who recently compared Putin to Hitler and knee-jerk conservatives who see the crisis in the Ukraine as a Cold War II are in need of a more restrained, nuanced and intelligent view, taking into account both history and geography – two subjects that Americans traditionally disregard.
- Sunday, March 9, 2014

Two Fallen Idols – Pete Seeger and Woody Allen –

Shakespeare had Mark Antony comment in his funeral oration for Caesar that “the Evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones” – a wistful remark on the propensity of the Roman mob to forget the many benefits they enjoyed under his reign and how grateful they had been during his lifetime only to abandon him and join in the joy of his overthrow. The Bible too recalls how many exult in “How the Mighty have Fallen” 2 Samuel:27.
- Saturday, February 22, 2014

No Apologies but the Toll Keeps Mounting

For those who would like a scorecard from 1948 to the present of violent Arab/Islamic heinous acts of barbarism for which the entire world (including innocent Muslims) are still waiting for an apology...
- Friday, September 14, 2012

Inherited Family fortunes of FDR, JFK, Gore and Kerry Compared to Romney

Nowhere in the history of recent political campaigns has a party (The Democrats) engaged in such hypocritical nonsense as the new party line that "Mitt Romney is out of touch with ordinary Americans in the 99% "(according to the Occupy movement) because of his earned wealth which puts him in the category of the 1 %.
- Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Oslo Maniac, Guilt by Association and Chinese Food

The incomprehensible and shocking mass murder of scores of Norwegian young people following the detonation and destruction of an important government building in the center of Oslo by a lone maniac defies any analysis or comparison in real world terms. It is so grotesque that it simply cannot be put in any box. The lone killer was possessed with a lunatic logic that directed his wrath against his own people and neighbors as well as the country’s national leaders whom he believed had enabled turning Norway, once the most homogeneous nation in Europe (after Iceland), into a problematic and strife torn multicultural society.
- Sunday, July 31, 2011

Why I wrote these two books

Norman Berdichevsky (June 2011) Two New Books out in June/July A few days ago, I returned from a trip to Denmark where I visited my son and his family. I also made the trip to publicize my new book, An Introduction to Danish Culture (McFarland Publishing) and was interviewed by Tim Anderson of MyDanishtv.com, a weekly internet video program on different aspects of Life in Denmark. The 10 minute interview can be viewed on their website in early June. The book on Denmark will be available on July 5th. just a month after the publication here in the U.S. on June 10th by the New English Review Press of The Left Is Seldom Right.
- Monday, May 23, 2011

Cuban Communist Party Support for Both Batista and Castro

It is worth dwelling on the Cuban story at greater length, if for no other reason than more than any other, it is so obvious and so close at hand, both geographically in its distance from American shores and by the presence of more than a million individuals who now reside in the United States and were personally involved and aware of how the Cuban Revolution came to power.
- Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Left Is Seldom Right

New English Review is pleased to announce the formation of New English Review Press. Our first publication is a book by Rebecca Bynum,Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion which will be published on February 1, 2011. Coming This Spring The Left Is Seldom Right by Norman Berdichevsky "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."--/i>William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The First Hebrew Language Textbook Set in Modern Jewish Palestine

For an English speaking/reading audience in the United States and Great Britain and the Commonwealth, the term Palestine and Palestinian were everywhere understood to apply to Jews only. There was nothing unusual or contradictory in the use of the terms Palestine and Palestinian in a Jewish context -- they had been in universal use in English speaking countries for generations and from approximately the time of early Zionist activity under the British mandate, Arabs in the country were generally reluctant to define themselves as anything but "Arabs" and all the U.N. resolutions including the partition plan spoke only of Jews and Arabs. Ironically, the term 'Palestinian' was in general use only for the Jewish segment of Palestine. Yiddish radio stations in the United States frequently played what they called "Palestinian folk songs" to refer to the popular tunes describing Jewish pioneers (halutzim) working the land.
- Saturday, November 27, 2010

The Stalinist and Daniel Webster

As a resident of Florida's 8th Congressional District in the Greater Orlando area, and a former New Yorker who grew up in the Bronx a few blocks away from the childhood home of Congressman, Alan Grayson, I cast my ballot last week in early voting to help defeat a man who rightly deserves the title of "America' s only Stalinist Congressman".
- Sunday, October 31, 2010

Freedom of religion is not ‘absolute’ according to the laws of the U.S., States, Constitution

Obama and scores of academics and ultra-liberal know nothings among inane/insane politicians such as Mayor Bloomberg and radio/television “journalists” do not, cannot acknowledge and prefer to remain willfully deaf, dumb and blind with regard to the Middle East, “allies” like our “friends in Afghanistan and Iraq and so MUST accuse us – ordinary, decent, law-abiding and patriotic Americans with charges of Islamophobia, and worse, bigotry of every sort that includes racism, homophobia, greed, and of course, INTOLERANCE and IGNORANCE.
- Wednesday, October 20, 2010

What a Weak and Divided America Meant in 1861-65

A great deal of heated discussion and debate has followed in the wake of the conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan with much criticism directed toward the preponderance of American military power coming from erstwhile “friends” and “allies” of the United States but they do not differ significantly from the views of the social elites and ruling classes in Europe of more than 150 years ago when the United States had absolutely no overseas possessions or imperialist ambitions.
- Tuesday, October 19, 2010

True Friends and Allies; Denmark, 1945 and None in Iraq and Afghanistan Today

The strength of 1,400 years of history lies behind those who claim that our attempts to “nation-build” and reach accords with allies in Iraq and Afghanistan are implausible and doomed to failure. Those who still hope to justify “our mission” in both countries to create a stable government that is not wholly corrupt and subject to Islamic fundamentalism, rely on "statistical trends" purporting to show a reduction in mayhem since the departure of the majority of American forces “evidence” that our “mission” there ultimately may have a positive outcome.
- Saturday, October 16, 2010


The Same Cause: Muslim Intransigence and the Same Effect: War and Endless Conflict

Following the atrocious act of terrorism in Mumbai, a considerable number of pundits/observers with a “liberal” persuasion, have argued that some blame should be put on India’s Hindus by stressing that the terrorist group carrying out the outrage of random murder of civilians was composed of “disaffected” or “aggrieved” Muslims.
- Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Garbage Can of History

Gerald Posner’s brilliant and definitive analysis of the Kennedy assassination, Case Closed (Doubleday, 1993), traces the abysmal and pathetic life of the lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, a name that will live in infamy. The story is one of repeated failures and a search for martyrdom to find meaning through death for a life completely unfulfilled.
- Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Media’s Debacles

In both the coverage of the Ground Zero Muslim Community Center and Mosque and the coverage of the great demonstration organized in Washington by Glenn Beck attracting in the neighborhood of half a million Americans, the mainstream media once again revealed their bias, blatant selectivity, self induced amnesia, and a rush to judgment to "shame" the audience into guilt over their assumed Islamophobia, the newest charge in the litany of grievances with which the public has been maligned focused on racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia in the past.
- Sunday, September 26, 2010

Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948

'Army of Shadows' is a remarkable book with a cogent title that adds new and significant insight to what is, without a doubt, the most exhausted (and exhausting) topic in the modern political lexicon of nationalist disputes.
- Friday, September 24, 2010

The Strange Case of J.B. Matthews, the Religious Left and the Censure of Senator McCarthy

While the term “Religious Right” is one of the most frequently used terms in the political lexicon, notably since the rise of what is usually referred to as the Evangelical Churches, the Political Left is alive and well and a strong crutch for the Democratic Party calling for “social justice”. During the first term of the Eisenhower administration, the role of American churches in politics became a major issue and helped precipitate the campaign to defame and censure Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
- Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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