Personally, I'd like to be IN my comfort zone once in a while.

Our hard-core/alt-rock scene heroes are dying, and the Boomers are still in charge. We're GenX empty nesters, and the Boomers are still in charge.

Oh, hey: love this shoutout from @bardcollege.bsky.social in the Bard Alumni/ae News and Events Digest! Thank you! Kudos to Adrian and to Scott Reed too, fellow Bardians!

Turns out, no one is too refined to make an unboxing video... including yours truly and @rkpejsova.bsky.social. You can purchase "Keeping Contact" with a 30% discount directly from Purdue University Press: www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/ youtu.be/XQJko4RPGtc?...

Keeping Contact Unboxing

YouTube video by Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, RCNJ

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📢 My new article, "Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38," is now out in Central European History via First View! And it's open access! Many thanks to everyone who made this piece better. You know who you are!

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38 | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38

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My co-editor, @rkpejsova.bsky.social, and I spoke with Purdue University Press about our new edited volume, "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (PUP, 2026) The post includes a code for 30% off ours and other books! www.press.purdue.edu/blog/2026/07...

New Book Explores Communication and Cultural Practices Among Jewish Diaspora During Cold War - Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press spoke with editors Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz about their new book, Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives

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New Book TODAY! "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (Purdue) Many thanks to our contributors and a mutual mazel tov to my dear friend and co-editor @rkpejsova.bsky.social. Available for free on JSTOR for those who celebrate. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/

Keeping Contact

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in...

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DNC texting me like U Up?

Na zámku v Nelahozevsi čistila dva týdny skupina 15 studentů z americké Purdue University unikátní hudební partitury, koňské postroje a další exponáty. Do tuzemska přijeli nejen na praxi, ale i kvůli poznávání české kultury, historie, hudby a gastronomie. irozhl.as/BXA

Je vzrušující vidět budovy postavené před rokem 1950, tvrdí studenti z USA. Pomáhají na zámku Nelahozeves

Na zámku čistila skupina patnácti studentů z americké Purdue University hudební partitury, koňské postroje a další exponáty. Do tuzemska přijeli nejen na praxi, ale i kvůli poznávání české kultury.

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Book review in The Polish Review 71.1: 📕 @rkpejsova.bsky.social discusses "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the “Ethnic Revolution” in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936–1946" by @sarahacramsey.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

Ah, the exhilaration of book proofs in the inbox! _Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders_ is coming to fruition, opening new doors to our understanding of the post-World War Two Jewish World. With @labendz.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Keeping-Cont...

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders

Amazon.com: Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders: 9781626712652: Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah, Labendz, Jacob Ari: Books

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Of course, they are sending proofs on the last day of Spring Break. You're going to want to read this book... Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiative across Cold War Borders co-edited with @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712645/

Keeping Contact

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in...

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SPECIAL ISSUE! The Polish Review 71.1 features a section devoted to the legacy of Jadwiga Maurer, plus 2 translated short stories and reviews by: @jrdwrrn.bsky.social @vaclavzheng.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social @emilyjuliaroche.bsky.social + more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/issu...

I hadn't planned to talk about Havel's Power of the Powerless this early in the semester, but it seems like a good time, since Canada's PM invoked it so well in his speech yesterday.

"Careful, there may be ice on the road" - my car

Those who remember the past are like, yeah, I want somma that

Looking up the origin of the phrase "jump the shark" was one of the most gratifying things I have done so far this year. youtu.be/Cs9M1m-dpgM?...

Fonzie Jumps Shark

YouTube video by Wake Ski 100

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I have not figured out what component of my plain pocketless stretchy traveling pants sometimes does and sometimes does not set off airport security.

A student just left office hours and wished me a good weekend & I said, thank you, you too, and then we both realized it's Tuesday.

Glass skin? In this economy?

Introducing the galaxy z trifold pre-installed with debauchery

Behold our glorious cover art! "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" Eds. @rkpejsova.bsky.social & @labendz.bsky.social (Purdue '26). Moshe Peter Shamah created this original artwork. The volume derived from two symposia, the last held at @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social.

Dr. Stanislav Pejša receives 2025 CLA Distinguished Dissertation Award at Purdue for "Determining People, Reordering Places. Visions of Transformations of the Postwar World, 1916-1920." See link for description!

Very cute typo spotted in the wild: "Unsergrads"- usage: preparing materials for Unsergrads.

#skystorians 🗃

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · last yr.

Watch this space, friends, for upcoming information about the must-have forthcoming volume, _Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders_ (Purdue UP), edited by @labendz.bsky.social and myself.

Watch this space, friends, for upcoming information about the must-have forthcoming volume, _Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders_ (Purdue UP), edited by @labendz.bsky.social and myself.

That must be one helluva bag

To act to maintain your own dignity and the dignity of others is a core marker of a successful life.

This is amazing. We sure could do with this degree of attention to detail, to reality, and to innate dignity in a whole honking big suite of concerns.

Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential@stuartmiller1.bsky.social · last yr.

Instagram channel @Art_DailyDose Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool Artist: @jurlyjocreation #art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist

The "focus" app in microsplat settings --> notifications really does help