Facebook sucks. I have repeatedly reported antisemitic comments and hate speech through their reporting system, and they rarely do anything about it.
Jay Geller
@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.
This is so messed up. www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
FIFA plans to raise $4.2 billion via stake sales in new subsidiary, angering UEFA
FIFA said on Tuesday it plans to create a new commercial subsidiary valued at $20 billion, offering a stake of up to 20% to external investors in a move that faced immediate sharp criticism from Euro...
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If I ever become a university president, the first thing I’m doing is banning Reply To All, or at least I’ll have the I.T. department install a pop-up that makes email uses verify *twice* that they really think a Reply To All is warranted and they really want to send one.
Hypocrites and politicians shedding crocodile tears should not benefit from this tragedy, but I don’t trust the electorate to respond in a nuanced way.
Das habe ich gerade erst erfahren. www.zeit.de/politik/2026... Meine einzige Frage ist folgende: Wie steht es mit der Infragestellung des Existenzrechts der Ukraine?
Strafvorschriften: Bundesrat will Leugnung von Existenzrecht Israels unter Strafe stellen
Wer das Existenzrecht Israels leugnet, soll nach Willen des Bundesrats mit Freiheits- oder Geldstrafe belangt werden. Kritiker sehen die Meinungsfreiheit gefährdet.
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@the-independent.com Well, this article didn't age well. (tl;dr Miguel Delaney, writing on Saturday, thought there was nothing wrong with Argentina's rough play and overall strategy. It was just "a team willing to go deeper and further than anyone else.") www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Are Argentina a dirty team? Dissecting their World Cup strategy
Argentina’s approach has been widely criticised but, as Miguel Delaney explains, there is a fine line and a different interpretation of how Lionel Scaloni’s side have approached the pursuit of a fourt...
independent.co.uk
It’s really frustrating that the NYT and WaPo regularly review history books written by NYT, WaPo, New Yorker, and Atlantic journalists who decided to write history books, but the NYT and WaPo rarely review books written by professional historians, even though many are very readable and relevant.
Can someone please explain to me, was Steimle punking the AfD attendees Borat-style, or is this some massive horseshoe theory action? I ask because they were singing a communist state's national anthem at a meeting of a far-right political party. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Ex-East German anthem heard at right-wing AfD event ahead of election
A debate on how to deal with the legacy of former communist East Germany has been sparked after people attending an event organized by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Dessau sang the C...
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If someone writes a German-language history of veganism, they should entitle their book "Vegangenheit" or, if they are inclined to use a parenthesis (as is popular among academic writers), "Ve(r)gangenheit".
Authors, I’m begging you: If you write a novel set in Berlin before 1933, get yourself a map of the city *from that era*. The street names have changed. Don’t use street names like Otto-Suhr-Allee or Clayallee, which are from the postwar/post-Nazi years.
Autoren, ich bitte Sie: Wenn Sie einen Roman schreiben, der vor 1933 in Berlin spielt, dann besorgen Sie einen Stadtplan *aus jener Zeit*. Verwenden Sie keine Straßennamen wie Clayallee oder Otto-Suhr-Allee.
I feel like my requests for an archive aren’t so demanding: - Easy to reach with public transport. - Good lighting and comfortable chairs for researchers. - AC in summer, heating in winter (but not an extreme of either). - Clean, accessible WCs. - They don’t lose documents. Why is this so hard?
Someone is really going to win the lottery with this one: Frances and Laurence Weinstein Chair in Modern European Jewish History University of Wisconsin - Madison And they specifically want an entry-level assistant professor. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70115/u...
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Frances and Laurence Weinstein Chair in Modern European Jewish History | H-Net
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In 2016, knowledgeable people — including historians of early 20th-century Germany — were having conversations and writing essays about America having a late-Weimar moment. But now that a politically conservative, religious Christian commentator is saying it, Ross Douthat is paying attention.
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 4w agoAmerica is at risk of extreme political upheaval, Rod Dreher tells our columnist Ross Douthat on “Interesting Times.” “It may not be Hitler 2.0. It may not be Stalin 2.0. It might be something all American, but it’s not going to be what we’re used to.”
They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.
So many thoughts. - Im Vergleich zu den meisten deutschen Bieren schmeckt Budweiser einfach nicht besonders gut. - Die Zutaten von B. sind Wasser, Gerstenmalz, Reis, Hefe und Hopfen. Meiner Meinung nach hat Reis im Bier nichts zu suchen. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/w...
Germans Don’t Love Budweiser. It Won’t Take No for an Answer.
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Watching the World Cup, but thinking like a historian: Wow, Spain is really reliving its early modern history through football. First, it plays its fellow ex-Habsburg state. Then, its plays its historic Iberian rival. Then, it plays its former colony. And its major 17th/18th-century rival awaits.
Ich finde es lobenswert, dass die Hamburger BallinStadt, von wo aus so viele Vorfahren der heutigen Amerikaner in die Neue Welt auswanderten, gemeinsam mit dem US-Konsulat eine Feier zum 250. Jahrestag der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit veranstaltete. Aber… 1/2
Happy (historically accurate) American independence day to all who celebrate! constitutioncenter.org/blog/when-is...
When is the real Independence Day: July 2 or July 4?
There’s no doubt the Founding Fathers approved the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. But which date has the legitimate claim on Independence Day: July 2 or July 4?
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TFW ein bekannter (und habilitierter) Wissenschaftler einen langen Zeitungsartikel genau zu dem Thema deines Buches veröffentlicht und dabei weder dich noch dein Buch auch nur ein einziges Mal erwähnt.
TIL that there is an anti-ab0rti0n-rights organization called the "White R0se Resistance". Yes, it is named for the Scholls' resistance movement in Nazi Germany. That's pretty ironic when you consider the Nazis' enforcement of Paragraph 218 of the German penal code. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...
Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women Who Get Abortions
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“Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack The penalties…dwarfed those given to Jan. 6 rioters…” You mean, like sentencing some insurrectionists to 20 years, but sentencing others to only 5 years and releasing them after 264 days? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...
Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack
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@nytimes.com, I know that it's easy to blame Nazism on "Prussian militarism," but Hitler was an Austrian; his movement was based in Bavaria, which was a hotbed of political radicalism during Weimar; and post-WW1 Prussia was bulwark of democracy until 1932. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
Does anyone else get requests like this? This oddest thing about this one is that I never wrote a book called "The Best of Enemies." (And the other Jay Geller didn't either.)
I’ve heard a lot of talk about this trend, but I’m skeptical. Many faculty may want to move from red states, but there simply aren’t academic jobs for them in blue states. The market for entry-level jobs is very tight, and it’s worse for lateral moves to tenured positions. 1/3
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3mo agoFaculty Actually Are Trying to Flee Red States Following a year of anecdotes about professors uprooting themselves from Republican-controlled states over academic freedom concerns, a new survey provides evidence that their experiences reflect a broader trend. https://bit.ly/4mLDIku #EDUSky
Question for the academics here: Let’s say you’ve been a professor or lecturer for 35 years. In that time you have amassed a huge collection of books on the history of Germany, Mexico, China, or whatever your geographic specialty was. What do you do with them when you retire? 1/2