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 🗃

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

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.

Just 28 to go to reach 5k. Surely there are more Barnard/Columbia College & University/Biz & Law school, etc., alums who'll join the 4972 who've already signed? 💙 www.columbiaalumniforacademicfreedom.org?link_id=4&ca...

It feels so bizarre in these times to go down into the basement for the duration of a tornado warning.

Tell uniqlo guy they're at Rector street

Reupping.

I live for mta alerts ⚠️ keep me grounded in reality no matter where I am

Wordle for the political commentary win

#ASEEES friends! @rkpejsova.bsky.social & I are looking for a 3rd panelist to present on State Security (organs) in global perspective. We approach the Cold War as a single system that operated upon the construct of a divided world.

#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!

I'm finally getting started with Tropy. Any hints?🗃

So, I've meticulously set up the brightspace pages for my courses. Now what happens?

From the clubs to the Walkman to the supermarket to pound class, Nirvana still revving it up for me after all these years

Hi! Hanukah only ended 8 days ago!

Deadline for 1st Central European History Convention (CEH-C, Vienna, July 17-19) is Jan 31. No registration necessary, heavily subsidized housing, + more subsidies available for those who need it. Keynote: Tara Zahra; several panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson Apply! ceh-c.univie.ac.at

If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES NOT AI.

"I don't want any part of a cookie that accepts me" - Groucho Marx

Started out the day shedding some shpilkes on the elliptical

The older I get/ the more experiences I have, the better I understand the human beings in the documents.

Together with Susanne Korbel from @uni Graz, we’re looking to find contributions to the history of #sharedliving in ECE/SEE, 18th-20th centuries for a special issue. More info here (www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...) and on H-Habsburg. Something for #skystorians #socialhistory

Tim Olin (Central College, Purdue History Ph.D.) has an outstanding book on the Banat of Temesvár coming out with Stanford UP shortly! ✨️ Discount code on flyer. #veryHabsburg #ECE #aseees 🗃

Oh no, it's 2025, and I've completed a 3-day Wordle streak as a newbie Wordle person.

I love reconnecting with friends from the revving up stage of the journey.

The future is called and said of 2025

I add to and cross off tasks from elaborate 3-columned to-do lists, which I refresh regularly.

"Failed Passport Photos: A Series, 1990s-2000s"

Ready for some shore leave on Risa 🙋‍♀️

Second Wawa sighting confirmed in Lafayette, Indiana. 🛸

Welp, it's...⏱️ less than 24 hours into the official end of the semester, and I've set up my recurring calendar items for next semester.

SO VERY EXCITED to share this NEH Summer Institute website on Jewish print culture!! #nehgrant @nehgov.bsky.social @barbaramann.bsky.social #bookhistory 📜 artsci.case.edu/neh/

The vicious circle of life

What is the level of financial well-being at which people lose touch with the everyday concerns of others? •Managing to get by without stress? •Comfortably getting by with income to spare? •Not checking prices in the supermarket? •Realizing you can go a step or 2 up & it will be ok? •other?

I used my late Bubbie's chopper to make a whole big bowl of egg salad for tomorrow's bagel brunch fundraiser. She used it mainly for making chopped liver, which I did not like as a child, but my cousins did, and this gave her naches.

The last time I ordered special Hanukah m&ms, I received a joyous "It's a Boy!" package.

Paraphrased student question: I am .4 points away from an A in your class. What can I do to get an A? My answer: I round up. Unspoken: You're getting an A, I can't send grade info over email, hold your horses until grades are released, leave me alone, surely you have other things to do than email.

Muhlenberg College is seeking an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) to join their Department of Theatre and Dance. @wesleygrafwald.bsky.social muhlenberg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MuhlenbergCa...

I do a quick Google for a quotation from Torah that happened to spring to mind, and I get a link to Christian singles in the Boston area. A perfect 180. I mean, an admirably precise antonym on three counts.

The Wreath of Khan

This project to trace where the collection of a major Jewish library in Berlin ended up after the war is an interesting parallel to a project in Brno to return religious books collected in 1945 Terezin to their families of origin. The human must remain central in the digital humanities.