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Steven Samols

@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.

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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

27.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anthropocenes Histories: Cities This seminar will discuss the topic of 'Cities and the Anthropocene' through research on Latin America and the U.S.

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...

08.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Shana tova to all those celebrating!!
Wishing you and yours a joyful and sweet new year 🍎🍯

22.09.2025 08:31 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great episode (they’re all great) but also lovely to hear a totally different side/ perspective on Amis. Thanks for all the pods!

13.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Research

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...

26.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Big, Beautiful, Counterfactual History.

10.06.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very cool piece.

17.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was fun to read with you. Keith Talent continues to haunt me/ make me laugh.

30.03.2025 12:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Jewish Children’s Agency & Acculturation in Latin America During the Holocaust – Alexia Orengo-Green
YouTube video by USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research Jewish Children’s Agency & Acculturation in Latin America During the Holocaust – Alexia Orengo-Green

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...

14.03.2025 16:39 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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

12.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

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.

07.03.2025 20:10 — 👍 3775    🔁 500    💬 116    📌 102
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Book launch: Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

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-...

06.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

check it out!

10.02.2025 12:20 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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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

24.01.2025 13:20 — 👍 19    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL is hiring a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer
Fixed-term/full-time
Closing Date 24 Jan

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

15.01.2025 15:55 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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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

14.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

Don't miss this online book talk with our Honorary Fellow Nick Sayers!

📅 22 Jan 2025, 20:00

14.01.2025 10:51 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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?

14.01.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jewish History Seminars consist of a 40-50 min presentation, followed by a Question and Answers session.

Here is our winter term schedule (with more coming soon):

www.history.ac.uk/seminars/jew...

13.01.2025 19:48 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

For real.

10.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The absolute limit is 47.

19.12.2024 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And we’re not exactly safe from the earlier threat.

12.12.2024 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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