On the 80th Anniversary of the end of the War in Europe "Victory in Europe Day" (VE Day) and as approach the 7th anniversary of his passing; reposting a poem Bernard Lewis wrote in September 1945 which he included in his "Notes On A Century")

The 80th Anniversary of "Victory in Europe Day" (VE Day). Bernard Lewis in his autobiography described his World War II as starting in the tank corp; then switched to British Intelligence/Foreign Office/MI6 "doing jobs, which...I am still not at liberty to discuss in any detail"

With Denmark in the news these days, courtesy of the current US-Denmark-Greenland "dispute;" just to note: This year marks 75 Years since Bernard Lewis (writing as "Louis Bernard") authored "Days in Denmark - An ABC of Denmark and the Danes" in 1950 #Denmark #Danes #BernardLewis

Flashback 35 Years... #OnThisDay in 1990: Bernard Lewis gave the last of his three "Tanner Lectures on "Europe and Islam" at #Oxford’s Brasnose College.
Bernard Lewis concluded his lecture... tannerlectures.org/wp-content/u...
#BernardLewis #EuropeAndIslam #TannerLectures #Europe #Islam

#OnThisDay in 1974: Half-a-year before actually moving to the United States (Princeton) Bernard Lewis was testifying before Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's Senate Subcommittee. (This was not their first meeting) #BernardLewis #ScoopJackson

Flashback 35 Years... #OnThisDay in 1990: Bernard Lewis gave the first of his three "Tanner Lectures on "Europe and Islam" at Oxford University’s Brasnose College. Final paragraph of address below #BernardLewis #EuropeAndIslam #TannerLectures #Europe
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#OnThisDay in 1979: Bernard Lewis, Mansour Farhang & Hamid Algar appeared on PBS NewsHour to discuss post-Shah #Iran and what Ayatollah Khomeini and his Islamic government would mean in terms of democracy, human rights, women's and Bahai rights etc americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-... #BernardLewis

#OnThisDay in 1998: Bernard Lewis on the day of his Grandson's Bar Mitzvah #BernardLewis

Flashback: January (23), 2014: Bernard Lewis visiting Tel-Aviv University to view some of his former-personal library which he had donated to #TelAvivUniversity Sourasky Library- exemplifying his long, deep relationship with #TAU and especially the #DayanCenter #AFTAU #BernardLewis

Holocaust Memorial Day/Holocaust Remembrance Day would seem to an appropriate day to repost this poem about the Holocaust written by Bernard Lewis in September 1945 #BernardLewis

#OnThisDay in 1996: Bernard Lewis’ “Cultures in Conflict - Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery" published by OUP global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Flashback 6 years ago today.... #OTD in 2019 - At the AHAhistorians 133rd Annual Meeting.... "The Middle East in the Academy: Examining the Legacy of Bernard Lewis" #Ahahistorians #BernardLewis

#OnThisDay in 1894: Bernard Lewis' Father, Hyman (Harry) Lewis was born (making him 22 when #BernardLewis was born)

On the occasion of the passing of former-President Jimmy Carter at age 100 (RIP): Flashback almost 40 Years - April 28, 1985: Review by Bernard Lewis in the @nytimes.com of Jimmy Carter's book "The Blood of Abraham“
www.nytimes.com/1985/04/28/b... #JimmyCarter #Carter #BernardLewis #ArabIsrael

Flashback.... #OnThisDay in 2001: Jay Tolson in US News and World Report on Bernard Lewis "A Sage for the Age” ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/course...
#JayTolson #BernardLewis #MiddleEast #Islam #USNewsAndWorldReport

#OnThisDay in 2001: Bernard Lewis in @newyorker.com.web.brid.gy “The Revolt of Islam
Published in the print edition of the November 19, 2001, issue, with the headline “The Revolt of Islam.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/200... #BernardLewis #Islam #AlQaeda #BinLaden