Job's Dung Heap

The first part of this long essay has now been posted (there have been 14 parts, but because of a mistake there is both a Part 9A and Part 9B and the last one to appear is Part 13).

Given the unfamiliar nature (to me) of writing an essay (both in response to on-going events in the world and thus in small units) I find that I have kept putting off two of the main arguments.  On the one hand, I keep anticipating and foreshadowing discussions of suggestion, psychotic trances and other facets of group fantasy known to psychohistorians); and on the other, a fuller discussion of Bernard Lazare's Job's Dungheap, from my title comes, and which incoudes interesting introductory material, with Lazare's essay itself written in the last phases of the Dreyfus Affair (which went on from Alfred Dreyfus's arrest in 1894 until his almost complete exoneration in 1906) and thus at a time when the future of anti-Semitism was still unclear and the role of Zionism highly contested; and the publication of the essay in English translation very soon after World War II, along with some other shorter writings on Jewish Nationalism by Lazare, ansd thus at a time when the full impact and significance of the Holocaust was still being realized.

Though it may be some time before I am ready to complete the whole essay, I think readers will be able to profit from perusing all fourteen parets, but I h ope you will forgive the often choppy natuire of the effort.  Perhaps some day there will be an occasion to rewrite the whole thing and present it in a more coherent and logical format.