For my birthday this year, I’m gonna start a surprising Jewish research archive 🗂️🗄️🎤🏛️

No, but really… where do they find these people

It’s antisemitism if it happens to certain Germans but if it happens to actual Jews, antisemitism is nowhere to be found

On Philipp Peyman Engel‘s serious credibility problem

Eva Menasse über Philipp Peyman Engel, das deutsche Feuilleton und wer entscheidet, was in Deutschland jüdisch ist. thediasporist.de/de/die-verfo...

Another day, another chat mit einem jüdischen Kollegen in Deutschland, der von nicht-jüdischen Deutschen boykottiert wird, weil er nicht mit den Ansichten der deutschen Mainstream-Medien darüber übereinstimmt, was Juden glauben *sollten*

Philipp Engel: Nur Rassisten nennen meine Mutter Iranerin! Seine Mutter dazu: Die Verbundenheit mit dem Iran ist immer noch da

The way his jacket is brown

Back to Bonn this summer and not sad

Das "Sozialisierung in Deutschland" Argument ist nach wie vor der Frume-Sore Charakter in allen innerjüdischen Debatten in Deutschland. Hat keine Substanz, spukt aber dennoch herum....

The librarians at A&M presented me with a Jewish Studies “housewarming” gift - the first Yiddish sci-fi fantasy novel ever 💕💕

Monday: Jewish Studies program announced and launched Thursday: already two offers from our libraries for collaborations to create a Jewish Studies research and archival collection I am in heaven.

Finally, a birth announcement at my university: the new Jewish Studies program at Texas A&M speaks!

Academic English that will send you to an early grave: "But the situation is not exhausted by the contradictory constatations of ineluctable relation and its equally unavoidable absence." In an article meant to *clarify* Kafka's story on the Chinese Wall. Happy Halloween! 👻

Big career victory to have a post land on a Jewish meme sharing group

It’s probably time for a golem

Shabbat-Aufzüge gibts übrigens auch, Herr Precht 😒

10/7 was like 9/11 I suppose because of the sense of an existential attack but ca. 90% Israelis blaming the government for the event is the total opposite of my country‘s path

No justice without humility. Determined not to lose friends over hard and bitter politics.

Turns out I can’t process through the horror stories from friends on Oct 7 fast enough to gird myself for the despair of war. Many out there don’t even have the luxury of my sloppy ‘time to process’: they are thrown in the middle. So I am not going to be posting much- just hoping

"My daughter and son in law were killed today but in their dying saved [their child's] life. They were all together in the secure room. And they covered his body and he was saved. Nevertheless a bullet penetrated them and went into his abdomen." Prof. Ilan Troen, a friend www.npr.org/2023/10/07/1...

After hours of adrenaline and dread following the news, I learned someone who was very generous to me and instrumental in helping establish a Jewish Studies program at my university has suffered terrible losses today in Israel. May all who have been affected know no more sorrow.

Happy weekend from the pink house geckos on my porch

It's kinda nice that in Vienna I often hear the question, "do you celebrate the chagim?" instead of "are you Jewish?" and it's so much more pleasant than at Ben Gurion airport, too.

Watched a TV series from the 90s and I was so distracted by the unparalyzed forehead muscles and moving eyebrows that I couldn’t concentrate on the dialogue 💉

Students: so can I wish my online German friends “happy German unity day” today? Me: Weeellll

The reason there's a "christlich-soziale Partei" in Austria at all is that, when it was born in 1891, those words were code for: not the Jews in the socialist party. Christianity as a weapon *against* the people - that's the ancestry of the #ÖVP. It must prove itself otherwise.

Live shot of me trying to launch a Jewish Studies program /hqualtinger /Wiener Mischkulanz

Ich wünsche euch allen ein leichtes Fasten (wenn ihr fastet) und g‘mar tov

What's old is new again: left is 2023 and the right, 1901. A political campaign to create panic over refugee Jews coming to Vienna under the antisemitic mayor, Karl Lueger.

110 Yom Kippurs ago since Franz Rosenzweig decided not to convert to Christianity after a Neila service in Berlin. He did convert to Jewish philosophy, though, and from that was born the Jüdisches Lehrhaus. That deserves a pilgrimage, no? Next year in Frankfurt- where he‘s buried

Everything that Hamshire-Fannett ISD has done to censor this text and the teacher who used it is wrong

RIP Ashley P who tried to climb Mount Email Haufen today and failed. If you find my body in the snowy tundra of task reminders, please use it to teach your children

Non-Berliner in Berlin: one-night stand! Berliner: a *whole* night?

Best Outlook bug ever: when I type in the body of my email, no letters appear Never has self-erasure been so enjoyable.

My former professor Menachem Brinker z”l, an atheist leftist, used to say that he ate one piece of bread on Yom Kippur “so that Gd knows I don’t believe in him”

תצא שנה וקללותיה תכל שנה וברכותיה A year will come out and its curses. Each year and its blessings.

eute: Frohes Neujahrsfest 🍯 Morgen: noch einen Schluck Coronasaft, damit es ein süßes Jahr ist 💉

Student asked me why Hochzeit (Ehe) is with a short o but Hochzeit (heyday) is with the long o and honestly I never thought about that before and it’s also too early in the semester to admit to the essential chaos of German

Deutschland hat die Chefredakteure, die es verdient.

Heute informierte mich ein Student, dass es in der Gegend von Beaumont, Texas, eine Petersilie/Koriander-Grenze zwischen der Tex-Mex- und der Cajun-Küche gibt

Sometimes it’s a blessing when a project falls apart, like when you write on someone living who turns into a massive disappointment before you publish

Just imagine writing that email while stuck in the elevator

Has Demogorgon mouth vibes but so tasty and in all the neighbors’ yards

Sebastian Droste (1898-1927), Tänzer, Lyriker, Schauspieler hier im Film «Argol» (1920) queer art, queerart

Found on my walk today in California

Is it Cartarescu? No, it's Bruno Schulz in 1934 (tr. Celina Wieniewska)

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