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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)

@labendz.bsky.social
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We published a new book: "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712645) Jewish, Czech & Cold-War hist: tinyurl.com/36zsaffc OyKay JLP: www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5CXGc4A

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 6h
When I teach about the Holocaust I ask my students if they know who Roma are. Until about five years ago, most students had no idea but were familiar with the g-word. For the past five years, most students have known. I asked a scholar about what happened: Marvel's Wanda, that's what.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please help spread the word! Apply if you're eligible. It's a wonderful honor and an important program.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As someone who works in genocide studies, this is one of the most terrifying stunts of the Trump admin. I could not care less about the arch or remodeling the White House. This should be seen as contributing to the conditions that make inciting genocide effective: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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US installation commemorates victims of South African ‘white genocide’
Memorial crosses installed in the US have revived erroneous claims of a ‘white genocide’ against farmers in South Africa
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026
Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Welp. www.reuters.com/business/med...
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East German town bans future Holocaust memorial plaques
An East German town has approved a motion by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and ruling centre-right ​Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to reject future installation of brass plaques ‌comme...
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so cool! I take my study-abroad students to the opera in Prague every time we go.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My love to that sweet moment between finishing a brilliant draft and editing a bullshit first draft.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you are interested in reflections from individuals working in Gaza, I highly recommend this program via PeaceMed. "Gaza: Updates & Testimonials" October 5 at 6PM EST us06web.zoom.us/j/8946495553...
Peacemed Webinar: "Gaza: Updates & Testimonials"

Monday, October 5 at 6PM EST via Zoom

Hear PeaceMed members discuss their time in Gaza. Followed by Q&A

Featuring (with headshots)
Javeria Qureshi, General/Trama Surgeon
Dorotea Gucciardo, Director of Development, GLIA
Mark Perlmutter, Orthopedic Surgeon
Feroze Sidhwa, Trauma Surgeon
Jennifer Arriaga, NICU/PICU Nurse
Rasha Abousalem, Humanitarian Aid Worker (Moderator)

The pic includes a QR code. I have copied the link in the post.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the majority of cis people would rather die than be forced to undergo unwanted transition. cis men in particular would go on killing sprees to protest being forcibly injected with estrogen. and yet this is the condition they expect trans people--trans kids especially--to accept as a given
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Any antifascist out there have a full download of the VNN forum and other compiled DBs of posts? I have stormfront and want to compare how they speak for a paper I'm writing.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's nice when the data, which has taken you years to find and then analyze, confirms your anecdotally based hypothesis.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey y'all. I'm returning to a research project tracing specific phrases through WN and racist literature. 1) Pls help me access now defunct WN sites and their full archives: 2) Pls share searchable archives of paper documents and newsletters dating back to 1900.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mazel tov to Sweden which just elected a left-leaning coalition to replace its erstwhile fascist government. I'm not convinced that a liberal state can do anything more than mitigate the rise of fascism, but I'll take it. May this begin a trend that spreads throughout the continent and the world.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a very smart move!
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, this is about one dude, right? There can't be leagues of otherwise qualified folks who would be clamoring to join the FBI were it not for their pesky bestiality convictions. (Remember the problem isn't "gross." It's consent and intent.)
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Best driving I have ever witnessed I saw the most terrifying thing on the highway... We were all driving about 65 mph down a curving decline... When someone's hood unlatched and flew up to block their windshield. The driver navigated carefully and successfully to the shoulder with their mirrors.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me, when I inadvertently prove my own point.
Clip of text that reads "People—at least folks without the same learnding dissabilities as I have—would gain." There are red lines indicating spelling errors under "learning" and "disabilities."
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"No. Iron. Spike. Can. Pierce. A. Human. Heart. As. Icily. As. A. Period. in. The. Right. Place." - Isaac Babel.
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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Extremism Prevention Starter Pack go.bsky.app/F2Y8oZq
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Folks, I'm tremendously excited to co-host this exhibition with Ramapo College Galleries and to collaborate with the Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University. You do not want to miss this. The artists are phenomenal. Tue., Sep. 8, Dr. Wendy Lower will offer a preparatory lecture (below).
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm "I just bought a second pill organize for midday" years old!
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a running joke in my house whenever we realize that something will likely remain beyond our reach forever... The bar is so low and the thirst for repentant traitors is so thirsty...
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You never get your perfect case, but this is a potentially strong indication of our present direction; a small glimmer of hope where none should have been needed in the first place. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW judge says anti-Israel graffiti case went ‘haywire’ when vandalism was labelled antisemitic
Mohommed Farhat spray-painted slogans and torched a car in Woollahra. He pleaded guilty but supreme court judge says case appears to be a ‘miscarriage of justice’
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A Texas Tech professor was told her course on the Holocaust could stay in the university’s core curriculum only if she agreed to cut the content about queer victims of Nazism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This was some of my best art during the second Iraq war. We had a party and I glued crayons to the wall, so people could poop and draw. It was glorious. Guess the toilet would need to be golden now.
Black and white picture of a bathroom (a toilet only in a small room... it's European) with wallpaper made of GWB's face.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The author's confidence in their excessive moral worth is at one astounding and pedestrian: "Grief over dead children in Gaza may have a genuine quality, albeit as a naïve response to propaganda..."
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
26% of American Jews say they would be more involved in American Jewish life if there were more “spaces where non-Zionist and anti-Zionist views can be expressed without being labelled antisemitic.” www.sajr.co.za/some-young-j...
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Some young Jews are pulling back from Jewish life over Israel discourse, study finds
JTA – Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or become more selective about where they participate, with disagree...
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Incredible new resource: Mapping database of all of the Holocaust monuments and memorials in the Czech Republic. One of the principle investigators told me that the list I compiled in my diss from 40 years of Jewish newsletters proved extremely helpful. No attribution. zachovanipameti.udu.cas.cz/en
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Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in the Czech Republic
Explore more than 600 Holocaust monuments and memorials in a unique database and specialized map of the Czech Republic.
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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We're thrilled to see this book come out in print! It is the first produce of our Publishing Symposium Series, supported by the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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?...
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Keeping Contact Unboxing
YouTube video by Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, RCNJ
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ChatGPT could not identify this and got most things wrong. Google Image search led to a claim, with a shocking amount of "evidence" that these are Syriac-Jewish migrants in Scandinavia. Gemini said, likely most convincingly, that it is an early Jewish LGBTQ group in the Netherlands. I hate this.
A black and white picture of (mostly) young adults holding a banner with a Jewish star and the word "Sjalhomo" in Latin and Hebrew letters.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Using AI to do an image search is wild. Each returns something different. Much of it is bananas. How is anyone relying on this shit.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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...
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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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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Check out our new project at OyKay. Feel free to DM if you or someone you know is interested in supporting our work. www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5...
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24. července 2026
YouTube video by Oy Kay TV
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Genesis (car) ad today just straight-up told the truth: "Living in your purpose is the ultimate luxury."
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Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dropped on my birthday, no less! www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
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North Jersey native has spent years fighting White supremacists
Threats, health setbacks and decades of activism haven't stopped one man's mission to expose extremist movements.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Try to stop me from assigning this in my fall course on the Holocaust: "Foreskin Reconstruction in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Surgical Strategy for Survival" Halioua, et. al., in "Urology" (July 22, 2026).
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Baller move.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Does anyone have a digital copy of Ivanov's "Pozor Sionizmus!" in Czech or Slovak? I'll be your best friend!
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Did they tell this guy to glue his arms to his sides? He looks like he's all "humphy."
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I need to hear him say, "China, China, China."
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When Mitch McConnell returns to Capitol Hill, it is the responsibility of the first Democratic senator who sees him in the chamber to scream, "Help! It's a ghost." and run away.
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Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of NJ @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's a privilege to share the wonderful news that the first book to emerge from our Publishing Symposium Series has just hit the bookshelves. We'll plan some events in the coming academic year. For now, with gratitude to all contributors, I encourage y'all to get a coffee and start reading!
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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/
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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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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Impulse bought a new mustache mug (I collect), so I had to drink more coffee in the late afternoon. This one is perfect... and my mustache is dry as a bone!
Picture of a mustache mug (with a guard so one does not soak their mustache). It's fairly unique looking. Olive green with a swirled design that looks like a flour de li. Sorry. I cannot spell.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Whereas in a physical casino, you must take a break from gambling to poop, with online prediction markets, you’re most likely to gamble away your fortunes while pooping.
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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The first time I saw this was on a tram in Prague, many years ago. I think they were Danish or Dutch tourists. I shuckled in solidarity.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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