@jaygeller.bsky.social
Professor of History, scholar of the German-Jewish experience, biographer of Gershom Scholem and family, and devotee of modernist architecture and design.
Majors in applied AI and cybersecurity will be able to finish their bachelor's degrees in 3 years by skipping general education courses. Getting degrees in applied AI or cycbersecurity without studying ethics or history, etc.? What could possibly go wrong?
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2010 hörte ich Konrad Jarausch einen Vortrag halten, in dem er sagte, dass die Geschichte der DDR eines Tages einfach noch eine regionale deutsche Geschichte wäre, so wie z.B. die Geschichte des Kgr. Bayern. Laut Flüchter ist dieser Zeitpunkt im Grunde hier.
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Does she not realize that Jesus's sabbath was on Saturday?
06.12.2025 22:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
#OTD vor 128 Jahren wurde der israelische Philosoph und Religionswissenschaftler Gershom Scholem im Berliner Fischerkietz (auch Fischerinsel genannt) geboren.
Er liebte seinen Geburtstag. Er liebte es, Geburtstagsgeschenke zu bekommen. Er heiratete sogar *zweimal* an seinem Geburtstag.
Years ago, a geophysicist friend noted that it takes a very high level of knowledge in a natural science field or mathematics for a layperson to stump a professor in those fields. But to stump a history professor, you just need to know a tiny amount about a different kind of history.
02.12.2025 03:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s also absurd that the @nytimes.com chose Katja Hoyer as one of the experts consulted for the article (alongside the renowned Christopher Browning no less). There are literally thousands of actual scholars who are experts on the Holocaust, the Wehrmacht, etc., whom the NYT could have interviewed.
28.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s so typical of the @nytimes.com that they report a culture story six weeks (!) after @theguardian.com.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
And Poland is considered possibly the next target? ✅
21.11.2025 21:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0No one thinks Munich 1938 was a good thing. Could the parallels be any clearer?
A country in Eastern Europe? ✅
The dictator of a neighboring state demands territory to which he is not entitled by int’l treaty? ✅
Unspecified security guarantees? ✅
The country not giving input to the agreement? ✅
Why are mainstream politicians not shouting about appeasement?
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Gratuliere! 📷📔
18.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Like I was saying:
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That is a career highlight!
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Micha Brumlik ist gestorben ist. Das ist ein großer Verlust.
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I do appreciate that the author of Attention: A Love Story has an interest in German history (and published a few articles in the NYT on the topic).
But if she's going to namecheck scholars who wrote on Weimar's end and link to reviews of their books, she's missing some real landmark works.
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Gay was a great historian, but he didn't write about the machinations that lead to the end of Weimar or write a comprehensive history of the Weimar Republic.
Meanwhile, the reviewer didn't mention Benjamin Hett, Henry A. Turner, or Heinrich August Winkler, among others, who expressly did.
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The @nytimes.com has reviewed the newest big book on the collapse of Weimar. The reviewer cites Peter Gay, Eric Weitz, and Harald Jähner.
Weitz's book is great (though Berlin-centric, IMHO). Jähner's book is very recent. But Gay is an odd choice if you know the literature on this topic.
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UK edition: "Dame und Herr im Restaurant" by Lesser Ury
Spanish edition: a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Italian edition: "Kaffeehausszene Paris" by Lesser Ury
French edition: "Strassenszene Mit Frau, Berlin" by Lesser Ury
5/5
I'm also fascinated by the choice of cover art, which is about representing the book's content and having appealing marketing.
German edition: "Berliner Straße im Regen" by German-Jewish artist Lesser Ury (1925)
US edition: "Hochbahnhof Bülowstraße bei Nacht" by Lesser Ury (1922)
4/5
In the British English, Italian, Spanish, and French translations, the title is provided as "Effingers: A Berlin Saga."
Perhaps the original title wasn't descriptive enough for readers in London, Rome, Madrid, and Paris. Perhaps including "A Berlin Saga" was good marketing.
3/5
One thing I find interesting, however, is the representation of the title. In the original German and in the American English translation, the title is simply "Effingers."
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Today, November 11, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is officially publishing its translation of "Effingers" by Gabriele Tergit.
This multi-generation saga of a Jewish family in Berlin is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it.
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Der Kommentar der Tagesschau beeindruckt mich: „Heute geht es [...] um eines: Das Leben in Freiheit und deren unschätzbarer Wert. Eine Freiheit, die im Osten von Mödlareuth fehlte.“
Dennoch stimmten 2/3 der lokalen Wähler für Parteien, die möglicherweise nicht vollständig demokratisch sind.
Frage an Politologen oder Soziologen:
Es ist schwierig, kontrafaktische Szenarien zu untersuchen, aber gibt es Studien darüber, wie die Abwanderung junger und/oder hochgebildeter Menschen aus Ostdeutschland den Wahlerfolg des politischen Extremismus, insbesondere der Rechten, ermöglicht hat?
This feels like nostalgia for an ex-spouse who was domineering and even occasionally abusive, but the final divorce was amicable, and you have discovered that a speedy remarriage may not have been a great idea or, at least, is very complicated and uncomfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
"Avi Primo, ehemals israelischer Botschafter in Deutschland, hat gesagt: Das, was einmal geschehen ist, kann wieder geschehen."
Sie verwechselt zwei Personen. Avi Primor war israelischer Botschafter. Der italienische Autor Primo Levi sagte: „Es ist geschehen, und folglich kann es wieder geschehen.“
Related to that topic (though not directly on it), I highly recommend this forthcoming book:
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(I’ve read the Druckfahne.)
