Always relevant re-reading Salo Baron when victimhood is presented as the faith of Jewish people everywhere, all the time, but worse, when it used to justify what #Israel is doing today,
"Unfortunately, in the light of present historical knowledge, the contrast on which these hopes are built is open to great qualification. A more critical examination of the supposed gains after the Revolution and fuller information concerning the Jewish Middle Ages both indicate that we may have to reevaluate radically our notions of Jewish progress under Western liberty. A wider, less prejudiced knowledge of the actual conditions of the Jew in the period of their deepest decline*—during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—seems to necessitate such a revision. If the status of the Jew (his privileges, opportunities, and actual life) in those centuries was in fact not as low as we are in the habit of thinking, then the miracle of Emancipation was not so great as we supposed."
Salo Baron. 1928. “Ghetto and Emancipation.” The Menorah Journal XIV (June 1928).
Yevgeny Varshaver, associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, head of the Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, wrote a quick sociological commentary on yesterday's unrest in Makhachkala (in Russian).
My English summary with addendums here and there — in the toots below
Sociological analysis of the unrest in Makhachkala (in Russian).
What happened in Dagestan? Yevgeny Varshaver explains "Yevgeny Varshaver is a candidate of sociological sciences, associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, head of the Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)."