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@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@floralashes.bsky.social
Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | www.florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch
@jeremydauber.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. AMERICAN SCARY out now!
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@nschneider03.bsky.social
Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made. Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture. New England Girl always! 💕
@profchander.bsky.social
@valeriefrankel.bsky.social
👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
@returnstosender.bsky.social
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Author of The Last Ghetto
@alana-m-vincent.net
Historian of Religion. Migrant (currently based in Finland). Bad at gender, worse at writing bios, absolutely incapable of refraining from profanity. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
@sbvanoosten.bsky.social
Social scientist at University of Oxford. Voting, elections, discrimination, conjoint/field experiments, in-group voting, immigration attitudes, politics, representation. https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/sanne-van-oosten/
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
@aboyarin.bsky.social
UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
@drberger.bsky.social
Doctor, researcher, poet, translator. #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter prons: he él ער הוא 他 https://linktr.ee/zackarysholemberger
@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought. book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76 new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god. אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
@rjelevi.bsky.social
Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her. Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023) RJELevi.com
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
@lioracle.bsky.social
History Prof. (Israel/Palestine, Jewish history, Middle East), urbanist, map-lover, punster, ebike and public library enthusiast. Seattle, WA
@rachelbgross.bsky.social
Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
@zacharymazur.bsky.social
Historian @Polin museum Research Fellow @ih_pan. Writing a book on radical nationalism, spies & murder. PhD @Yale // Just my opinions. https://www.zacharymazur.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=etR0CsyDsKQC&hl=en&oi=ao 📍Warsaw, Europe
@killearnan.bsky.social
Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
@mirele.bsky.social
Professor, author of Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the 21st Century. Co-writer, with Shayna Weiss, of the newsletter It's No Ibiza. https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/beyond-land https://noibiza.substack.com
@dacretu.bsky.social
Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Habsburg Empire, WWI
@philipplenhard.bsky.social
Professor of Jewish History and Culture at LMU Munich | Private account | DE/EN
@mmargolis.bsky.social
N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old and worn early printed books/manuscripts and the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish
@helenemeyers.bsky.social
writer, educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Career coach for English majors & other humanities types. Latest book: MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION https://helenemeyers.com/
@elirubin.bsky.social
"only humility is revolt" —Aaron Zeitlin Existential historian of religion, rupture, kabbalah, hasidism, philosophy, literature, and modernity 📘*Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism* elirubin.online
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer ✍🏻 Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia. Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, Apofenie, etc
@lexaphus.bsky.social
I post Jewish things. Sometimes other things. Like sports. But mostly Jewish things. Senior Jewish Educator for Judaism Unbound/The UnYeshiva. www.judaismunbound.com
@sararonis.bsky.social
associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things. She/Her
@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social
Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈⬛owner | she/her
@sgollance.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
@jeichlerlevine.bsky.social
Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization, Lehigh * Author, PAINTED POMEGRANATES AND NEEDLEPOINT RABBIS writing a new book on Disney/religion optional running+cat content https://jodieichlerlevine.com/ https://religion.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staff/jodi-eic
@labendz.bsky.social
Won the 2011 Prague mustache contest Jewish, Czech and Cold-War history Thinking about belonging, diaspora, antisemitism and cemeteries Views should not be attributed to employer/CHGS Books: https://tinyurl.com/yc77by39 & https://tinyurl.com/2xutcwkt
@saralhalpern.bsky.social
Forever vagabond. Married to cochlear implant c, 1989. Seeking a world free of discrimination through advocacy. also, historian of (in no particular order) humanitarianism, migrations, Jews, the Holocaust, modern Europe (esp German-speaking)
@profrosenblum.bsky.social
Professor of Classical Judaism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; studies ancient food and plays modern guitar (he/him)
@uclhjs.bsky.social
University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics. Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
@profjenthompson.bsky.social
Scholar of US Judaism, intermarriage, applied ethics, secular Jews. Admirer of unions, democracy. Student of sewing. Former Alaskan. New book: Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition.
@joelhs.bsky.social
Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. One of those liberal arts professors JD Vance calls “the enemy.” Probably a globalist elite. Thing-in-itself hating Jew. He/Him/הוא/ער
@ninamelechen.bsky.social
Nashvillian, Jwitter refugee (1n1m1), retired, loves medieval history & roots music & food & books, she/her, Boomer white/cis/straight trying to help
@davidweinfeld.bsky.social
Time traveling detective aka historian, teach Jewish Studies at Rowan U in NJ. Live in Philly. PhD NYU. Husband of MAP, dad of 2 girls. Have celiac. From Montreal. Go Expos! Will not respond to people who don’t go by their real names here.
@zacharybraiterman.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought & Culture. Blogs at jewishphilosophyplace.com
@adamshear.bsky.social
early modern Jewish history and history of the book at University of Pittsburgh (speaks for himself of course); chair of https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/; co-director of https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@lauraleibman.bsky.social
Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies