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Anna Koch

@annakoch.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Europe and author of Home after Fascism. Interested in histories of home, exile and displacement. Also, dams, floodings, antifascism and Holocaust memory. Just a tad eclectic.

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Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea ArciszewsΒ­ka.

Event poster for 'Mourning a lost future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime' with a photo of Tea ArciszewsΒ­ka.

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.

πŸ—“οΈ 2 December at 6pm
πŸ“ UCL SSEES
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@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

21.11.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.

Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.

Please join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist, who will examine how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.

πŸ—“οΈ 11 November at 6pm
πŸ“ UCL SSEES
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@annakoch.bsky.social

27.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Event poster for 'Central Europe The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea' with an image of the book cover.

Event poster for 'Central Europe The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea' with an image of the book cover.

What is β€˜Central Europe’? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @ljukic.bsky.social to find out more.

πŸ—“οΈ 14 October at 6pm
πŸ“ UCL SSEES
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@annakoch.bsky.social

02.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

30.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 832    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 27

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12.07.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BIAJS Book Prize 2025 BIAJS Book Prize 2025 We are delighted to announce the BIAJS book prize winner and two honourable mentions for 2025: The 2025 winner: Anna Koch, Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after th…

Thrilled that 'Home After Fascism' has received the 2025 BIAJS Book Prize!
Many thanks to the #BIAJS and especially to the prize committee for their kind words!
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11.07.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news.

"A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

26.06.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

and disturbing...

06.06.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing, that's so helpful!

06.06.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”Š There's still time to register for today's event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

13.05.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

06.05.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Event poster for 'Knowledge in Exile: Translating Science for (and in) 19th century Central Europe'.

Event poster for 'Knowledge in Exile: Translating Science for (and in) 19th century Central Europe'.

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with Katalin Straner, who will discuss her research on the translation and reception of Darwinism and evolutionary thought in the 19th-century Habsburg Empire.

πŸ—“οΈ 29 April at 5pm
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07.04.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Event poster for 'Book Launch: The Last Peasant War (2025) by Jakub BeneΕ‘'. In-person event.

Event poster for 'Book Launch: The Last Peasant War (2025) by Jakub BeneΕ‘'. In-person event.

Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) by Jakub BeneΕ‘, who will discuss his new book with @annakoch.bsky.social and Celia Donert.

Co-organised by #SSEES and Rethinking Modern Europe @ihr.bsky.social.

πŸ—“οΈ 11 March at 6pm
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18.02.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

If you are in London and free that evening do please come by!

04.02.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We'll be holding a launch of this book in collaboration with @uclssees.bsky.social on 11 March - all welcome!
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30.01.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œHolocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain” by Anna Koch & @stachst.bsky.social (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2024)

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

#Shoah #SovietUnion #IronCurtain #Israel #NewYork #Paris #ColdWar #Antifascism #Holocaust #Berlin #GDR

23.10.2024 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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