Dr Uta Rautenberg

A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!

Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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Thank you - yes I did that and reported to Bluesky

If you have received a direct message from me for a voting request, please ignore. I did not send this and have asked Bluesky to investigate

Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social

Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1

Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social
you can preorder below.
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Urning - University of Toronto Press Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century

Yesterday I had a great lunch with @history-doug.bsky.social whose highly readable book I read recently. "Urning" is a very readable and important contribution to 19th century German history and the emergence of modern queer identity.
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Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.

Die Doku, die die BBC nicht senden durfte.

Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.

Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.

Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.

Passiert natürlich nicht.

Thirty years after the genocide, the peace of Srebrenica hides deep scars | Alixandra Fazzina Today, the landscape looks picturesque – but it holds memories of the largest mass killing since the second world war. A photojournalist meets some of the Bosnian Muslim survivors building new lives a...

"Beneath the streetlights, a patrol car parks up at the gates of the cemetery in Potočari. On 11 July 1995, the village set the scene for what was to be the largest mass killing in Europe since the second world war." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.

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A graphic featuring the front cover of the book by helen FInch - German-Jewish life writing in the aftermath of the Holocaust, alongside photographs of Anna Hájková and Helen FInch

📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed!

Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.

Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B

Book cover for Jonah Garde's "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne »Geschlechtsumwandlung« im 20. Jahrhundert und ihre kolonialen Geister." The figure of a ghostly apparition floats behind the text against a dark background.

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.

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One week to go! Eine Woche noch! 🌈 Kommt alle, Universität Bremen, 2.7.! Ich freue mich @lisamirabai.bsky.social

Podcast series explores how LGBT people were treated during the Nazi era NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Eric Marcus about the latest season of his series Making Gay History, which explores the lives of LGBTQ people during the Nazi era.

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And for the pride month (so far coming with horrible news every day) I give you something really good: Uta’s book is now officially a thing!
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

And here is a bit about him from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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WHN Annual Book Prize We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
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Two women kissing through a fence with staring intrusive onlookers

So I wrote an essay about images of women kissing in the Holocaust. Noone knows who they were. They are lesbian chimeras.
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942

Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.

Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
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Das letzte Ghetto Die erste analytische Geschichte einer Häftlingsgesellschaft während des Holocaust: soziale Hierarchien und Gewohnheiten in Theresienstadt.

Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
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Strebel's book has been out for 22 years. I remember when it came out. *Some* colleagues writing on Ravensbrück were complaining how this source was missing & that detail was not correct. There were some petty reviews.
Not a year passes by that I do not pull out that book and always find the answer.

Vortragsankündigung: 12.06.2025 - Lisa Hellriegel (Bremen): Von Sittlichkeit zu Selbstbestimmung? Eine Geschichte sexualisierter Gewalt in deutschen und englischen Großstädten, 1920er bis 1960er Jahre

Ich freue mich sehr, nächste Woche im Kolloquium Kultur/Geschichte an der Uni Bielefeld Einblicke in mein Dissertationsprojekt „Von Sittlichkeit zu Selbstbestimmung? Sexualisierte Gewalt in deutschen & englischen Großstädten, 1920er-1960er Jahre“ zu geben: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/event/lisa-h...

Seit ein paar Jahren gebe ich Schreibworkshops für Nachfahr*innen von NS-Verfolgten. Immer mal wieder sind auch Personen aus Sinti und Roma Communities dabei. Und es erschüttert mich jedes Mal, wie alleingelassen sie werden. Wobei, nein, das ist das falsche Wort: Sie sind nach wie vor massiv bedroht

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„Das letzte Ghetto“, @ankahajkova.bsky.social 's beeindruckende Sozialgeschichte Theresienstadts, kommt nächstes Jahr in deutscher Übersetzung bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social heraus. Es fehlt aber noch Geld und ihr könnt bei der Veröffentlichung helfen: www.goodcrowd.org/uebersetzung...

In eigener Sache. Für die deutsche Ausgabe von meinem Buch über Theresienstadt fehlen noch €3400. Ich sammle jetzt und erkläre was und wie hier. Tausend Dank vorab!
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Posted with the highest recommendations. Congratulations @ankahajkova.bsky.social!

I just read a really interesting piece by Hannah Riedler on sexual/ized violence in the UWZ in Lodz. One of the officers not only stole money from the ethnic Poles who were being resettled, he also coerced Polish women into sex.
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