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It was an honor to be interviewed by Lauren Kane and Dahlia Krutkovich at @nybooks
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/11/what-happened-magda-teter/
A friend who lives in Hungary but is forced to work in Austria because of Orban, recommended this book for our moment.
https://ceupress.com/book/post-communist-mafia-state-2
Excited about this coming out in March 2025: "Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives"
https://ceupress.com/book/blood-libels-hostile-archives
A fascinating editorial from Life Magazine, May 31, 1948. The first paragraph says it all:
https://books.google.com/books?id=WkYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA28&dq=Palestine&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=Palestine&f=false
Gifting this article about the VP Harris. An important read
https://wapo.st/4bgdKhy
Reading Stefan Zweig's memoir. The foreword is very poignant, resonating also today.
22.6.2024 23:57Reading Stefan Zweig's memoir. The foreword is very poignant, resonating also today.From Tom Tomorrow about the congestion pricing debacle and Hochul's shameful intervention.
17.6.2024 14:48From Tom Tomorrow about the congestion pricing debacle and Hochul's shameful intervention.@princetonupress has a flash sale for books published before 4/2024. 50% off. You can therefore get my book, "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism," using code FIFTY in the checkout!
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242583/christian-supremacy
Can anyone direct me to Arabic literature before 1800 that concerns what is now called Palestine. I would like to incorporate in my classes. There is obviously abundance in Jewish literature, showing the depth of attachment and memory, spanning. Is there anything from before Nahda?
24.4.2024 22:07Can anyone direct me to Arabic literature before 1800 that concerns what is now called Palestine. I would like to incorporate in my classes....An essay by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American who grew up in Gaza is worth a read:
"Before the Oct. 7 massacre carried out by Hamas, it was common for left-leaning and liberal pro-Palestine activists to state their opposition to the Islamist group as they also readily condemned the Israeli occupation and the repression of Palestinians, especially in Gaza. However, immediately after the attack, and perhaps due to the unprecedented scale and success of the offensive, a shift occurred."
https://thirdnarrative.org/palestinian-american-tells-left-stop-excusing-hamas/
I finished the excellent "Siblings" by Brigitte Reinmann, now reading Lion Feuchtwanger
https://www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/the-oppermanns
I am 💔 about Flaco 🦉
First Rover 🦅
Now Flaco. #NYC
Here is speak with Jesse Strauss, host of "Law and Disorder," about my recent book "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism"
https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/antisemitic-and-racist-roots-of-christian-supremacy/
Much needed and appreciated words from the Pope
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/02/03/pope-francis-letter-israeli-jewish-antisemitism-247107
I am rereading David Nirenberg's "Communities of Violence" and this passage struck a cord in today's debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "But beyond such epistemological and psychological truisms, let me focus on just two very general types of decision that confront any historical inquiry into the capacities of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities for coexistence and for violence, and that I tried to interrogate in Communities of Violence. One has to do with historical time itself: how do we choose to divide or connect it? And the second has to do with our categories of analysis. How do we as historians
decide what should be classified as evidence for or cause of violence, oppression, even extermination, and what as pointing toward toleration, coexistence,or religious freedom?"
Good for Penn to do it
https://jwst.sas.upenn.edu/events/2024/02/05/derek-j-penslar-1948-war-eyes-world-local-global
The American Academy for Jewish Research responds to the attacks on Professor Derek Penslar
https://aajr.org/announcements/aajr-statement-regarding-professor-derek-penslar/
Listening to 'Israel, Gaza, and the U.S.: A Conversation with Aaron David Miller' at https://www.buzzsprout.com/952522/14275611-israel-gaza-and-the-u-s-a-conversation-with-aaron-david-miller
21.1.2024 20:03Listening to 'Israel, Gaza, and the U.S.: A Conversation with Aaron David Miller' at ...Just watched this incredible film with Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens
"The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (1959) about post apocalyptic NYC. A poignant commentary on race, gender, wealth, and power.
I will put it on my list of films to recommend to students.
https://g.co/kgs/Q6Sq6nN