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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Personally, I'd like to be IN my comfort zone once in a while.

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our hard-core/alt-rock scene heroes are dying, and the Boomers are still in charge. We're GenX empty nesters, and the Boomers are still in charge.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh, hey: love this shoutout from @bardcollege.bsky.social in the Bard Alumni/ae News and Events Digest! Thank you! Kudos to Adrian and to Scott Reed too, fellow Bardians!

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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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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📢 My new article, "Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38," is now out in Central European History via First View! And it's open access! Many thanks to everyone who made this piece better. You know who you are!

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Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38 | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38

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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 · 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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iROZHLAS.cz @irozhlas.cz · 16/06/2026

Na zámku v Nelahozevsi čistila dva týdny skupina 15 studentů z americké Purdue University unikátní hudební partitury, koňské postroje a další exponáty. Do tuzemska přijeli nejen na praxi, ale i kvůli poznávání české kultury, historie, hudby a gastronomie. irozhl.as/BXA

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Je vzrušující vidět budovy postavené před rokem 1950, tvrdí studenti z USA. Pomáhají na zámku Nelahozeves

Na zámku čistila skupina patnácti studentů z americké Purdue University hudební partitury, koňské postroje a další exponáty. Do tuzemska přijeli nejen na praxi, ale i kvůli poznávání české kultury.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/article/71/1/105/406988/Uprooting-the-Diaspora-Jewish-Belonging-and-the

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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 www.amazon.com/Keeping-Cont...

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Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders

Amazon.com: Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders: 9781626712652: Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah, Labendz, Jacob Ari: Books

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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/

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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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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/issu...

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Careful, there may be ice on the road" - my car

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Those who remember the past are like, yeah, I want somma that

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Looking up the origin of the phrase "jump the shark" was one of the most gratifying things I have done so far this year. youtu.be/Cs9M1m-dpgM?...

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Fonzie Jumps Shark

YouTube video by Wake Ski 100

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I have not figured out what component of my plain pocketless stretchy traveling pants sometimes does and sometimes does not set off airport security.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Introducing the galaxy z trifold pre-installed with debauchery

Bosch's triptych of the garden of earthly delights

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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!

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- College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Very cute typo spotted in the wild: "Unsergrads"- usage: preparing materials for Unsergrads.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

To act to maintain your own dignity and the dignity of others is a core marker of a successful life.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The "focus" app in microsplat settings --> notifications really does help

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Here I am Will you send me some zitsfleisch Here I am Editing

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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).

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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.

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Belarus opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski freed from jail, says wife

Tsikhanousk’s arrest and activism sparked unprecedented protests in Belarus, challenging Lukashenko’s decades-long rule.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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...

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Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom - Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom

Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom Columbia alumni, join us in defending academic freedom by signing the letter below. Columbia University Alumni Statement on Academic Freedom “There is a certain en...

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Tell uniqlo guy they're at Rector street

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Wordle for the political commentary win

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Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#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.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#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!

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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Central European History Convention

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Started out the day shedding some shpilkes on the elliptical

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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