@swsamols.bsky.social
ISGAP-Woolf Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Cambridge (St Edmund’s College). Researcher of photography and its relationship to history and historical consciousness.
If you're in Cambridge this term, come along to our Israel Studies Seminars at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies every Wednesday! We have an exciting line up - from @drtermagant.bsky.social on waterways & conspiracies to Moshe Behar talking Mizrahi politics. Something for everyone!
07.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Support for our community following the Bondi Beach Chanukah attack www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
16.12.2025 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@mymartinamis.bsky.social may be able to help?
04.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tomorrow there are great opportunities to learn about women and Yiddish theatre in London and New York.
I'll be speaking @uclssees.bsky.social about playwright Tea Arciszewska.
At YIVO, find out about diva Ester-Rokhl Kaminska's memoirs. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.yivo.org/Yiddish-Voic...
Very Goodly Morning. If we continue to put distance between us and our rivals, can you see Arteta taking off the handbrake for a few home games and let this side score a bunch of goals for the fans…or will we try to grind out results until the bitter end? #arsecastextra
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For the first Anthropocene Histories seminar of 2025-2026, we're talking about 'Cities' with Adrián Lerner (@adrianler.bsky.social) and Pollyanna Rhee (@parhee.bsky.social).
It'll be online on 29th October between 3-5pm GMT.
Open to all, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropoce...
Shana tova to all those celebrating!!
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯
Great episode (they’re all great) but also lovely to hear a totally different side/ perspective on Amis. Thanks for all the pods!
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Interested in doing a Jewish Studies postdoc in the UK? @uclhjs.bsky.social is happy to host postdocs on a variety of topics. Please note internal deadlines for prospective postdocs to submit expressions of interest and draft proposals in 🧵. @biajs.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Big, Beautiful, Counterfactual History.
10.06.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very cool piece.
17.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was fun to read with you. Keith Talent continues to haunt me/ make me laugh.
30.03.2025 12:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My lecture "'We have to leave' Germany: Jewish Children's Agency & Acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust" is now published on the YouTube channel for USC's Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR).
Go watch it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzzi...
Ten doctoral scholarships on German-Jewish history and culture to be awarded in the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2025/26
For more information including application details, please visit: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship
Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”
Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
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Come join us Tuesday evening (11 March) for a discussion with Professor Laura Hobson Faure and her new book “Who will rescue us? the story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust”
Link for registration here: www.history.ac.uk/events/book-...
check it out!
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The Leo Baeck Institute London proudly presents its 2025 Lecture Series: Belonging and Exclusion. This series explores German-Jewish experiences over four lectures throughout 2025.
Join us in-person at Senate House London, or online on Zoom!
Details: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/LS-2025
Ich war im Podcast des @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social zu Gast.
Wir haben über meine Arbeit und die Ausstellung gesprochen, was gerade private Fotos erzählen und was sie verdecken…und unseren kommenden Beitrag für den European Month of Photography.
Have a listen ⬇️
buff.ly/3Cq8fBJ
UCL is hiring a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer
Fixed-term/full-time
Closing Date 24 Jan
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The LBI London is pleased to present an online lecture by Professor Hermann Beck, historian and recent recipient of the 2024 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research.
Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:00 GMT
Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/beck-25
Don't miss this online book talk with our Honorary Fellow Nick Sayers!
📅 22 Jan 2025, 20:00
Yes, but have you considered how shiny and new this proposal is? Have you reflected on the ways in which it allows us to ignore both inevitable tax rises and spending cuts?
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Here is our winter term schedule (with more coming soon):
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/jew...
For real.
10.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The absolute limit is 47.
19.12.2024 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And we’re not exactly safe from the earlier threat.
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