Edwin Black, Journalist, Author, Historian, Talk Show Host, Speaks

 Nadene Goldfoot                                     

           Edwin Black (born February 27, 1950 in Chicago) is an American historian and author, as well as a syndicated columnist, investigative journalist, and weekly talk show host on The Edwin Black Show  https://theedwinblackshow.com/. He specializes in human rights, the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, academic fraud, corporate criminality and abuse, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany.  in 2014.

I turned to my favorite, Youtube on TV, and caught an interview of Edwin Black on something new to me, Israel News Talk, straight talk from Israel with the moderator, the Tamar Yonah Show. which is a radio show but this time was shown on youtube.   Boy, did I get an earful as well as an eyeful. Edwin said that World War III has already started.   The show was titled, "May Go Nuclear In 30 Days."  Edwin felt we had about a 30% chance of the world going nuclear in 30 days and he was dead serious.  They discussed the situation in Ukraine, the whys and therefore, Zelinsky, the USA and quite a bit about what happens to your land and you if a nuclear bomb or missile strikes it.   He emphasized much about it in great detail and where such a bomb might be dropped as well as if and why Putin might just do it. 

Tamar, being Orthodox, reminded us of hope at the end of such a war.  Of course, our thoughts were both of the end of days after Black's comments of the closeness we are to a nuclear war, which is obvious for a WWIII.  I think it was Edwin who said that WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones. No doubt.     

  He can be watched this coming Thursday, the 24th.  From Washington, DC via Zoom, every Thursday at 3pm ET, Edwin Black, the award-winning New York Times bestselling investigative author of IBM and the Holocaust, War Against the Weak, and Financing the Flames, examines frankly and without partisanship our fragmented world, our turbulent history, our present very very tense, and our evolving and uncertain future with expert guests and takes your questions from anywhere in the world. Nothing is off-limits on The Edwin Black Show. On this Thursday he'll be talking about  our need for a new UN--for Democracies.  (I never knew that such a program could be seen on Zoom).  

                 

I still remember the book our library teacher, Mrs. Carlin,  in the 8th grade read to us during our library period.  I know what will happen.  The book must have been written in 1946,  right after Hiroshima was hit on August 6, 1945, and would have been right off the press. 

Black is the son of Polish Holocaust survivors. His mother, Ethel "Edjya" Katz, from Białystok, told of narrowly escaping death during the Holocaust by escaping a boxcar en route to the Treblinka extermination camp as a 13-year old in August 1943. After escaping, she was shot by militiamen then rescued by a Polish Jewish fighter whom she later married. Black's father described escaping his own murder by fleeing to the woods from a long march to an isolated "shooting pit" and subsequently fighting the Nazis as a Betar partisan. The pair had survived World War II by hiding in the forests of Poland for two years, emerging only after the end of the conflict and emigrating to the United States.

Of his own origins, Black has written: "I was born in Chicago, raised in Jewish neighborhoods, and my parents never tried to speak of their experience again."

Black began working as a professional journalist while still in high school, later attending university where he further developed the craft. He also was a frequent freelance contributor to the four major Chicago newspapers of the day, the Tribune, the Daily News, the Sun-Times, and Chicago Today, as well as such weeklies as Chicago Reader and Chicago Magazine. In the late 1970s, he was the editor of Chicago Monthly.

Edwin Black's enterprise and investigative journalism, as well as perspectives and book excerpts, are syndicated to more than 100 leading newspapers and magazines throughout the world. In the United States, outlets as diverse as the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Playboy, Reform Judaism, the American Lawyer, and Journal of the American Bar Association. Overseas in such outlets as the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, L'Express and the Jerusalem Post.

In his book, The Transfer Agreement,  Black notes that following in the beliefs of his parents, he was from his earliest days a supporter of the State of Israel. As a young man he spent time on a kibbutz, visited Israel on several other occasions, and gave earnest consideration to permanent residency there.                   

In 2010, in his book The Farhud, the author resurrected the so-called "Forgotten Pogrom," the bloody June 1–2, 1941 pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad, known as The Farhud, sometimes called the Iraqi Kristallnacht. In 2015, Black founded the annual commemoration, International Farhud Day, which he proclaimed at the United Nations in a live globally-streamed event. The remembrance has been recognized and observed in many countries and in 2021, it was reported in the media that 10,000 people in numerous countries lit candles.

So far, he has written 11 serious nonfictional books.   He is presently a syndicated columnist in publications in the United States, Israel, and elsewhere.

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Black

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bio+of+Edwin+Black&sxsrf=APq-WBugTbEQISAIExvNclr5p5SOSiM-zA%3A1647996133216&source=hp&ei=5Ww6YoqQCdXQ9APsuZrwDg&iflsig=AHkkrS4AAAAAYjp69fC4aGECe2WM8mb4QanC3Mzk8

https://edwinblack.com/index.php?page=10168