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Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died on Monday at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?” nyti.ms/4h3tkA2

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Daniel Judt discusses with Jonathan Levy, author of the recently published "The Real Economy" (@princetonupress.bsky.social), what we can gain from studying the issues that occupied the less epistemologically constrained economic theories of the early twentieth century.

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Much more so than during Trump 1.0, there is now a Far Right International. Supporting each other, learning from each other.

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The @nytimesbooks.bsky.social's Molly Young plugs the late Anson Rabinbach's 1990 book "The Human Motor" as a timely must read, praising his "stylistic flourishes" and suggesting that fatigue was for the 19th c. the scourge distraction is today. Still no fatigue vaccine! nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

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the shift in power inside the German left tonight –– from antideutsch to antiracist, from Wagenknecht to Koçak –– is a great reason for everyone living in Germany to commit themselves to making a difference in the coming years

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Red Berlin taz.de/Bundestagswa...

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What does it mean to "normalize" the far right? How does the process get justified, and do so-called mainstream politicians ever really benefit from it? Can one at all push back against "normalization'? New column in Project Syndicate.

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"...conceptually, plutocratic insurgencies differ from kleptocracies; the latter use the institutions of state to loot the population, whereas the former wish to neutralize those institutions in order to facilitate private-sector looting. In practice, these may overlap or co-mingle."

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Today at NYU's Center for the Humanities: a brilliant "trialogue on time" ft. Stefanos Geroulanos, Natasha Wheatley, and Ulrich Baer to celebrate the launch of Nitzan Lebovic's new book, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (@cornellupress.bsky.social 2024)

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A moving tribute to Anson Rabinbach by Stefanos Geroulanos, his former student, friend, and now interpreter of his intellectual legacy. The Mosse Center also dug up this photo of Andy smoking hookah with his Doktorvater George Mosse in 1976! mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/02/17/r...

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“Soon enough, what seems sublime in nature will be radioactive. The endpoint of history, in these artists’ account, is a world in which landscapes are corrupt. Half-lives don’t care who remembers 1945.” —Stefanos Geroulanos on art in the atomic age

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Heute vor 130 Jahren wurde #MaxHorkheimer geboren. #AndiesemTag 🧵

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Today at the University of Rochester Humanities Center: Caroline Levine, activist humanist!

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New book haul! @haymarketbooks.org @versobooks.bsky.social @penguinpress.bsky.social

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Former AHA President Barbara Weinstein: the Executive Council's appeal to "the limits of the AHA’s engagement in advocacy is quite remarkable given that... most scholars... were drawn to the study of history by concerns they would describe as 'political.'" www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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A remarkable obituary in the @nytimes.com for Anson Rabinbach, including fitting comments about him and his work from colleagues who knew him best. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

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Remembering Anson Rabinbach, who passed away on Sunday, I was reminded of a bizarre film 1992 about Walter Benjamin he appeared in alongside Jennings and Buck-Morss, which employs a Benjaminian fragmentary aesthetics. Rabinbach as the Angel of History! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBdu...

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Andy Rabinbach was an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and mentor. And a wonderful Mensch. As Jürgen Kaube puts it in this well-informed and sensitive obituary: "Jede Zeile von ihm war informativ."

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Times are dark when we need to be reminded of this by a leading Harvard historian of modern Germany

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Mark your calendars! I'm organizing a workshop in modern German history @ URochester April 25-26. Keynotes will be Anne Berg and Sam Huneke, with Paul Hanebrink, John Abromeit, and Robert Terrell also presenting. Write me if you'd like to attend or share a paper. events.rochester.edu/event/new-di...

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It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day in Trump’s America, and people across the country are hiding from ICE agents in their attics

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In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

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📣 Here we are, #blueskyhistorians! Excited to kick off with the announcement of Paul Kurek’s piece "Geology" in #KOMPOSITA, linking #Koselleck’s "Sediments of time" to the emerging 'new cultural geology'. 🌍⏳ A cross-publication with @jhideas.bsky.social – enjoy reading! gtw.hypotheses.org/29259

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It was my pleasure to edit this blog post by my friend Paul Kurek on Koselleck and the geological turn, which argues for understanding “Zeitschichten” (sediments of time) as more than a metaphor!

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What happened between 1932 and 1942, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art? WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN 1932 AND 1942???

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The New Faces of Fascism (Diana Garvin)

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Can hardly imagine more fitting commentators on the far right today than Enzo Traverso and Dagmar Herzog. But are they truly “fascist”? Stay tuned for answers…

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At Sapienza University of Rome, Skye Doney kicks off the Mosse Program’s conference “60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited”! mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome/

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The annual @historians.org conference begins today! I'm speaking on a roundtable I organized called "The Return of Political Economy in Modern European Intellectual History" featuring Samuel Moyn, John Abromeit, Disha Karnad Jani, Nick Barone, Natasha Wheatley, Paige Pendarvis, & Andrew Sartori.

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Found this relic from my college years. A more hopeful time! But maybe we were all already deluded then.

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Informative 10-minute news segment featuring Susan Neiman, one of the most prominent Jewish intellectuals in Germany, on everything that's wrong with Germany's new antisemitism resolution. "I think it's a disaster, and I think it will increase antisemitism." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwQz...

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“The dichotomy in the discipline is at the core of the tension, creating a split between those who hold that the Holocaust was a unique event and… a comparative view. The conflict has tapped into a foundational question: what is genocide studies for?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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This is reporting from Germany’s most watched public broadcast. It concerns “open antisemitism at a Christmas market in Darmstadt”. The caption: "’Never Again’ written on a gingerbread heart. This equates the mass murder of six million Jews with the current war and relativizes the Holocaust.”

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Postwar antiracism projects "should sound a cautionary note for us today" in trying to define antisemitism: "Definitions—which stabilize terms and powerfully delimit what is sayable, and even what is thinkable—can function as alibis for certain forms of injustice." jewishcurrents.org/difference-w...

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Basically the tldr of Peter Gordon's interesting reading of Trump 2.0 through Marx's "Eighteenth Brumaire" essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social. Goodbye fascism debate, hello charismatic authority. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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Not exactly the Fascism Liz Cheney warned you about, but bad news for those at all kinds of academic institutions that these proposals are still being discussed as ways to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together

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Come be my postdoc colleague @urochester.bsky.social! "we are especially interested in scholars who are working at the cutting-edge of Black Studies—particularly focused on Black and Palestinian Solidarities and Black Trans Studies." jobs.chronicle.com/job/37765269...

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The 4 finalists for the ASSISTANT prof job in European history at Princeton earned their PhDs in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020. All 4 are already assistant profs elsewhere (though 1 term-limited). What used to be starter jobs now require the credentials formerly required for tenure.

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Big moment for Bad Gays! “If you told me 20 years ago that a far-right political movement would take over the Republican Party and that gay men would be in multiple positions of significant power… I would not have believed you.” @benwritesthings.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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For a new project, I'm exploring drafts of texts found on Hayden White's computer explaining, at age 82, how he "blundered" into Holocaust studies as an "outsider," neither German nor Jew. Here's his conclusion: "I can put this engagement in terms of a single question: How could they have done it?"

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Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hello, I’m Nöhtanoj, the recycled cousin of Poäng chair.

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Is this…. postmodernism?

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In a new podcast, Nancy Fraser updates her takedown of “progressive neoliberalism” from Obama to Kamala.

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Guess my paper better be good 😳

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