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Sarah Cramsey

@sarahacramsey.bsky.social
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Historian; Professor for Central European Studies & Judaism and Diaspora Studies @UniLeiden.bsky.social; _Uprooting the Diaspora_ @IUPress.bsky.social; PI of @ERC.europa.eu “CareCentury” carecentury.eu; Director, Austria Centre Leiden; Lover of cortados

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Karwan Fatah-Black @fatahblack.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Published today: The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam by Jessica den Oudsten and Ramona Negrón This book first appeared in Dutch, and is now also available in English through the Slavery & Emancipation book series at Routledge. www.routledge.com/The-Private-...
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The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: On Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt
An indispensable resource for academics and general readers, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pe...
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Chad Gibbs @chadgibbs101.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
At long last! The official publication date for my book is here. I can’t wait to hear back from readers and get these important histories out in the world.
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Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/04/2026
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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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...
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨 Academic job alert! We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe. Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
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Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego
The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just learned that Veronika Tuckerová's long expected book on the afterlives of Kafka's readership in Czechoslovakia is out, with Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-k...
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Reading Kafka in Prague
An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to the end of communism 1989.In the first bo…
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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 30/06/2025
We have an interesting #JOBopening for an EHRI-ERIC Research and Content Officer who will work at the EHRI Central Hub located at @niodamsterdam.bsky.social. Come and join our nice team! Apply before 15 July! www.ehri-project.eu/job-opening-...
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In one chapter of my forthcoming book "People Without History Are Dust" I examine Gad Beck, his queerness, sexual barter, sexualized violence, agency, his decision to out his lovers and colleagues, the whole beautiful mess: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
His memoir, co-written with Frank Heibert, is available in English with @uwiscpress.bsky.social and I have it on good authority it still sells well. No surprise! it is one of the most captivating, moving, funny, and authentic reads you will get your hands on. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/A/An-U...
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An Underground Life
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815
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The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective
Read this new piece by Elisheva Baumgarten, “The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective,” in: Von unbequemen Dominikanern, organisierte...
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CEU Review of Books @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
📣 New Long Read! @agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...
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A braided stream of histories in the Polish “Recovered Territories” - CEU Review of Books
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displ...
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
CFP: “Care and the #Jewish Experience” @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on Sept. 16, 2025 How do human beings who follow a Jewish way of life sustain, cherish and honor life through care and how does the “invisible work" associated with this care change over time? #Jewishstudies #CareCentury
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Cover reveal for People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, forthcoming in four months with @uoftpress.bsky.social Beautiful design by Filip Kraus; the faces correspond with six of the chapters told in the book.
Cover design for "People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" in a rich burgundy color, with six faces on the cover, each corresponding with a chapter.
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just President Zelensky casually hangs out with Ukrainian cleaning staff at the Czech parliament
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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Digital platforms mediating work between customers and service providers have expanded exponentially in the past decade, driving a growing research agenda on the impact of platform capitalism, AI, and...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New on advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism*
Abstract. This article shows how the European Community sought to become a global climate leader during the 1980s and 1990s, only to fail to make progress
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Yeah, except that many of these global institutions, including most European ones, have been busy gutting their own systems & driving their own researchers away! So good luck finding jobs at this side of the pond. Hopefully the Gulf States can benefit from this flight of researchers?
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Theodora Dragostinova @theodorad.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them! The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”
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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Author number 4 from the @aseh.bsky.social conference is @stanfordpress.bsky.social author Marc Landry, pictured below with his book Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age. #aseh2025
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Want to learn more about quantifying carework and why we need to rethink how we count GDP? This episode of "The Conversation on @bbcnews.bsky.social was brilliant. #Carecentury, my @erc.europa.eu thanks Emma Holten and @jayatighosh.bsky.social. Wanna come to @unileiden.bsky.social and tell us more?
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Want to get a PHD in the history of early childcare and invisible work in central and eastern Europe, from 1905-2004? come work with me @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social on my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant Project! Deadline April 11! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe
Vacancies: PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe The PhD candidates will become part of a research team exploring a century of early childcare and the i...
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Sarah Cramsey's recent book
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Hana Kubatova @hanakubatova.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Oxford has now made my introductory chapter freely available. The hope is that once you start reading, you'll want to recommend the book to your library. Would you consider doing that? It is the only way OUP might release a more affordable paperback edition.
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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Bracewell Scolarship gives PhD students from, and studying, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe an opportunity to work at @uclssees.bsky.social for a term. Applications are open, deadline is 30 April. Please share. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2...
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Bracewell Scholarship applications are now open
For current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Joanna Sliwa @joannasliwa24.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On March 24, the @simonandschuster.bsky.social #CounterfeitCountess story is coming to @rowanuniversity.bsky.social. I will give the Dr. Paul B. Winkler Lecture, in honor of the late exec dir of the NJ Commission on #HolocaustEducation.
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Coming to @unileiden.bsky.social for the @esshc.bsky.social ? Let the Austria Centre Leiden buy you lunch on March 27 at 13:15! @jillmassino.bsky.social will present her @purdueprescouncil.bsky.social book "Everyday Postsocialism in eastern Europe"/DM me to RSVP! #easternEurope #history #socialism
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...
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VUB zet deuren open voor gecensureerde Amerikaanse onderzoekers
Universiteit voorziet budgetten en contactpunt voor Amerikaanse onderzoekers die willen verhuizen naar Brussel
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
‘Het initiatief van de VUB is een reactie op de zorgwekkende inmenging van de Trump-administratie in het vrij onderzoek in de VS.’ Zij wel.
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VUB zet deuren open voor gecensureerde Amerikaanse onderzoekers
Universiteit voorziet budgetten en contactpunt voor Amerikaanse onderzoekers die willen verhuizen naar Brussel
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
TONIGHT:
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Well done 60 minutes, indeed!
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A must read from my favorite essayist John Connelly @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/connelly-put...
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Worse than Chamberlain
Who would have thought an American president would make Neville Chamberlain look good?
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#carecentury
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Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Now on @literaryhub.bsky.social, an excerpt about maternal solitude deprivation from my new memoir MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Quick reminder about our upcoming conference in #Brussels on 17 September. The Call for Papers is open until the end of this week! calenda.org/1217954?lang...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Very pleased to share my article in the Journal of Baltic Studies on popular fundraising in Lithuania during the #GreaterWar, where I explore the dynamics of mass politics in a newly established state. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Turning investors into citizens: internal loans in Lithuania, 1918–1922
This article explores popular fundraising in the newly established Lithuanian state during its wars of independence against the Bolsheviks, Bermontians, and Poland. Simultaneous state building and ...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 13/03/2025
Colm Toibin on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. buff.ly/JxBdm01
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‘Her Own Woman’ | Colm Tóibín
Elizabeth Bishop’s story “In the Village” opens: “A scream, the echo of a scream, hangs over that Nova Scotian village.” The scream “hangs there forever,
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Are you working in a setting where historical data is at risk of being lost/erased/removed? Let the OAH know. I think this is an important way to account for what's there now so that we understand what goes missing. You can fill out the form anonymously. #historysky www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r...
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OAH | Records at Risk Data Collection InitiativeOAH | Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative
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Sarah Cramsey @sarahacramsey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hello blue sky friends! I'm hiring two phd students @leidenhumanities.bsky.social thanks to my @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "A Century of Care: Early Childcare and Invisible Work in Central and Eastern Europe." Due April 11 to start Sept 1! Please re-post! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe
Vacancies: PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe The PhD candidates will become part of a research team exploring a century of early childcare and the i...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/03/2025
Everyone look up Karl Lueger
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