Rebekah Klein-Pejšová

I hadn't planned to talk about Havel's Power of the Powerless this early in the semester, but it seems like a good time, since Canada's PM invoked it so well in his speech yesterday.

"Careful, there may be ice on the road" - my car

Those who remember the past are like, yeah, I want somma that

YouTube video by Wake Ski 100 Fonzie Jumps Shark

Looking up the origin of the phrase "jump the shark" was one of the most gratifying things I have done so far this year.
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I have not figured out what component of my plain pocketless stretchy traveling pants sometimes does and sometimes does not set off airport security.

A student just left office hours and wished me a good weekend & I said, thank you, you too, and then we both realized it's Tuesday.

Glass skin? In this economy?

Bosch's triptych of the garden of earthly delights

Introducing the galaxy z trifold pre-installed with debauchery

Omg, same

Jersey fresh from the Garden State

Book cover. Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders, eds., Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz (Purdue, 2026) The centerpiece of the cover is a collage produced for the volume by Moshe Peter Shamah.

Behold our glorious cover art!

"Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders"

Eds. @rkpejsova.bsky.social & @labendz.bsky.social (Purdue '26).

Moshe Peter Shamah created this original artwork. The volume derived from two symposia, the last held at @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social.

Dr. Stanislav Pejša receives 2025 CLA Distinguished Dissertation Award at Purdue for "Determining People, Reordering Places. Visions of Transformations of the Postwar World, 1916-1920." See link for description!

Very cute typo spotted in the wild: "Unsergrads"- usage: preparing materials for Unsergrads.

#skystorians 🗃

Watch this space, friends, for upcoming information about the must-have forthcoming volume, _Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders_ (Purdue UP), edited by @labendz.bsky.social and myself.

That must be one helluva bag

To act to maintain your own dignity and the dignity of others is a core marker of a successful life.

This is amazing. We sure could do with this degree of attention to detail, to reality, and to innate dignity in a whole honking big suite of concerns.

The "focus" app in microsplat settings --> notifications really does help

Here I am
Will you send me some zitsfleisch
Here I am
Editing

This goes is the good news column!

Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter:

"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"

It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).

Belarus opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski freed from jail, says wife Tsikhanousk’s arrest and activism sparked unprecedented protests in Belarus, challenging Lukashenko’s decades-long rule.

Belarus has released a group of political prisoners.

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s husband Siarhei is among the released. He was arrested in 2020 as the opposition presidential candidate. Afterwards his wife won the election, but the regime did not acknowledge this.

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Which has now been lifted

It feels so bizarre in these times to go down into the basement for the duration of a tornado warning.

Agree

Tell uniqlo guy they're at Rector street

Reupping.

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