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Professor of History and Judaic Studies, scholar of the German-Jewish experience, biographer of Gershom Scholem and family, and devotee of modernist architecture and design.
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"Trump has said the European Union...was formed 'in order to screw the United States.'" Actually, the EU's origin institution, the European Coal and Steel Community, was formed to keep Germany and France from going to war again. And that was to advantage of the US. www.dw.com/en/trump-say...

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Kann mir jemand, der die Verhältnisse in Sachsen, insbes. in der Nähe von Bautzen, gut kennt, erklären, wie drei Dörfer stark CDU wählten, während ihre Nachbarn stark AfD wählten? Crostwitz, gleich neben der AfD-Super-Hochburg Puschwitz, wählte fast mehrheitlich die CDU. (Siehe nächsten Beitrag.)

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“Romanian far-right leader George Simion also disagreed with [French far-right leader Jordan] Bardella's interpretation of Bannon's hand gesture. ‘Any historian knows that wasn't a Nazi salute,’ he told the BBC.” Any historian? Really? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"das Wissen fing an, unzeitgemäß zu werden, der unscharfe Typus Mensch, der die Gegenwart beherrscht, hatte sich durchzusetzen begonnen." -Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

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“'Etz chayim hi,' Dude, as the ex used to say.” Can anyone recommend (scholarly?) readings on Jewish identity in modern America through the lens of Coen Brothers films? (I already know the special issue of _AJS Review_ on "A Serious Man.")

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Leute, Falls Ihr Interesse habt, halte ich am 26. März um 18 Uhr im Ephraim-Palais des Berliner Stadtmuseums einen Vortrag über die Familie Scholem und ihren Platz im Kontext der Berliner Geschichte. www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltun...

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Scholars: Can anyone tell me who was the first person to refer to the train station (or railway station) as "the cathedral of the nineteenth century"? I'm looking for the origins of this expression. Thanks.

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If you're looking for a book to assign in a course on the Holocaust, I strongly recommend Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past. Done as a graphic history, it tells the story of the Holocaust/NS years, Holocaust memory, and Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in one West German village.

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