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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
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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
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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/
Cover of The Polish Review, Volume 71, Number 1, 2026 Photo of Jadwiga Maurer at her home in Lawrence, Kansas, in the 1990s, on burgundy background
Table of Contents for The Polish Review 71.1
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
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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.
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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?
Bosch's triptych of the garden of earthly delights
Introducing the galaxy z trifold pre-installed with debauchery
Omg, same
Jersey fresh from the Garden State
Book cover. Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders, eds., Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz (Purdue, 2026) The centerpiece of the cover is a collage produced for the volume by Moshe Peter Shamah.
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.
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.
The "focus" app in microsplat settings --> notifications really does help
Here I am
Will you send me some zitsfleisch
Here I am
Editing
This goes is the good news column!
Just finished the final draft of my latest book chapter:
"Haredi Geographies: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
It's for an edited volume that I'm putting together with @rkpejsova.bsky.social on Jewish contact across Cold War boundaries. (Purdue, forthcoming).
Belarus has released a group of political prisoners.
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s husband Siarhei is among the released. He was arrested in 2020 as the opposition presidential candidate. Afterwards his wife won the election, but the regime did not acknowledge this.