Yanky Fachler
About Yanky Fachler
Broadcaster, writer, ghostwriter and blogger Yanky Fachler was born in the UK, lived for many years in Israel, and currently lives in Ireland. Since 7 October 2023, he has posted over 4,000 pieces as part of “Yanky’s Morale Boosting Doodles” (email yankyfachler@gmail.com to subscribe.) During COVID, Yanky delivered 250 Zoom talks, and he is now a regular speaker on Lockdown University. His books include Igniting the Chutzpah spark embedded in your DNA; Fire in the Belly; 6 Officers, 2 Lions and 750 Mules; God’s Little Errand Boys; and Jewish Letchworth: A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience.
Yanky’s lectures (31)
Date
Title
7 January
The Battle of Broken Hill: A Jihadi Terror Attack in Australia, Over 100 Years Ago
15 January
The Cats of Spinoza Street: The Kafkaesque Battle over Kafka’s Legacy
27 January
Sticking Out Like 4 Sore Thumbs: 4 Brothers on Poland Roots Trip
18 February
The Deadly Jerusalem Fist Fight That Provoked the Crimean War
3 March
The Nazi Obsession with Purim
24 March
‘Persil Washes Whiter’: The D-Nazification Fiasco
7 April
Stuck in the Mud: The 2,000-Year-Old Jesus Boat
21 May
Ho Chi Minh Offered Ben Gurion to Host Government-In-Exile
4 June
Ireland: The Country That Bequeathed Us the Boycott
15 June
Leopold Bloom: Trieste Jew or Dublin Jew?
25 June
Stumbling upon Cloak-And-Dagger Peace Negotiations
8 July
Moles! Israelis Who Spied for Soviet Intelligence
30 July
Mary Robinson and the Durban Hate Fest
13 August
The Irish Jew on the Contraceptive Train
17 August
The Schoolboy Who Stopped the Jordanians from Invading Jewish Jerusalem