Nearly finished with the interactive map of synagogues (here screenshot) destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 1938. Utterly shameful that people are comparing it with the deplatforming of Parler. #Kristallnacht

To the people celebrating the mass murder of Israeli civilians, you have lost your humanity. To the people enthusiastically calling for Israel to decimate Gaza, densely populated with 2 million Palestinian civilians, you have lost your humanity. Israelis and Palestinians are real

FOUR new fellowships are now available at CJH!

„By valorizing terrorism, these voices on the left are effectively choosing to stop contending for power in a serious way.“ Important take on the moral - and strategic - failures of the left rn by ⁦Michelle Goldberg⁩ nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opi…

Insightful analysis by ⁦Yuval Noah Harari⁩. Among others, it criticizes Hamas‘ and radical leftists‘ „belief in absolute justice“ as well as Bibi‘s failure to conduct the war „without clear political goals of its own.“ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Looks like the German debate hasn't quite reached the bottom yet 😳

Out of all the many “No really, guys, I’m gonna be a dictator” posts Trump has made over the years, this is top ten. Don’t miss the promise to “root out” the “vermin.” Like all of our greatest heads of state.

With debate raging again around Zionism & colonialism, I refer folks to what I think remains the deepest discussion of the topic--Part III in the book I edited with L. Leff and M. Mandel. Far more rigorous than what we're getting in the media: iupress.org/9780253024572/…

“The Israel-Hamas war is tearing the pro-democracy popular front apart.” Essential read by Thomas Zimmer

„Tell me you’re in 🇩🇪 without telling you’re in 🇩🇪”: Visiting the national archives housed in a fancy new building, but there’s no Wi-Fi - “we’re working on it.”

Man muss es sagen: es ist schlicht unmöglich in 4 Jahren. Es wird nicht gehen & damit wird es nur über das Ausland gehen (Abwanderung, mind. zeitweise). 🇩🇪 wird zum reinen „Senior“-Markt werden, für Leute die mid-career zurückkehren. Sollte die Regierung wenigstens ehrlich sagen.

if any Germany-based scholars would be interested in writing an essay on why this is bad for your Anglophone colleagues (and maybe reviewing some books on academic precarity along the way), I would be interested in publishing it contemporary european history. get in touch.

Half a year ago, I woke up in Montreal to terrifying news. It soon became clear what a watershed 7 October will be. The six months since made twitter from a bad place a truly horrible one. Two chronological points:

Great forum on "The Welfare State in the Wake of Decolonisation" out now open access ed. by Giuliana Chamedes and M. Sohm. Articles on Moynihan and Suriname, the EC's welfare policy from Brandt to Delors, and how North Sea oil saved Thatcher cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The academic fantasy

Here’s a short piece based on my research stay at The YIVO Institute last Sept. Many thanks to Center for Jewish History and Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham for the incredible support! Couldn’t have wished for a better start for my diss research.

In 2010, I met some Meretz folks, and already back then prospects didn’t look great. Now it seems that socialist Zionism, not only in Israel, is dead. This is bad news for everyone who’s hoping for a just peace in the Middle East.

If you’re in Leipzig this week, join me Dubnow-Institut for my first 🫖 talk!