Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of my cats.
Highly recommended! Jewish radicalism shaped by life on the borderlands of empire in Europe and North America
Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · 24h agoForthcoming book from @nyupress.bsky.social: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles by @lucecaroline.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983835...
Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
Poor Lynx has allergies (note the swollen chin.) Not clear what he’s allergic to but I hope it’s not…cats
I had to come myself and find that gash but I only see fences and troops and about 7 tourists
Nothing to see here just a Nazi propaganda film showing for an extended run on the upper east side in February 1940
I assume he is coming on to talk about wildfires/the climate crisis, the war in Iran, and other urgent issues affecting our lives.
newbooksnetwork.com/survival-at-... It was such a pleasure speaking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social about his incredible work on Treblinka. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️
Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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for some reason just now thinking about Dorothy Thompson calling Nazism "the apotheosis of collective mediocrity in all its forms." #skystorians
Except, fortunately, it's not "Jewish money", at least not to the extent it used to be when it was a more benign organization; too many Jews are against it and too many Evangelicals for. It's right-wing money.
This would have been such a cool conference to go to. #skystorians “Mass Media & Modern Society,” 1959
If you had told me 2 days ago that McConnell would be alive & Graham dead this weekend, I would have had you committed
Shocked that the rapist with the Nazi tattoo isn’t being very cooperative
Got some great feedback on my chapter draft today from Mitch McConnell.
Good luck with that message, but I think most of us know a quite a bit more than the president knows.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoNEWSNATION: Are you worried the war in Iran and its economic fallout could hurt Republicans in the fall as you see how deeply unpopular it is? GRUTERS: No. The message has to be delivered that we don't know everything the president knows. Some temporary pain for long term gain. It's a wash.
While we’re at it, I can think of some other sex offenders who should step down
I found this piece by @bradlander.bsky.social very moving and beautiful. My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future forward.com/opinion/8355...
My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future
Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.
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