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ashley passmore

@wunschkrapferl.bsky.social
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Coordinator of Jewish Studies program and faculty in German at TAMU.edu Ewige Studentin bei Univ. of Chicago; Bard College; Uni Wien; Uni Freiburg; Uni Mainz

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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Stell dir vor, die deutschen Medien würden diesen Moment nutzen, um einmal über die vergangenen 4 Jahre nachzudenken – darüber, wie sie Menschen gnadenlos bis an den Rand des Todes oder sogar in den Tod gehetzt haben, nur um mehr Klicks u Engagement zu generieren und dabei Mythen weiter zu befeuern.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here’s the thing: in Germany, you can claim someone faked an identity when they didn’t, get paid by media to “investigate” the false claims, and then, when the subject of your inquiry turns out to have been truthful, and doesn’t take their own life despite pressure you continue to grift on the story
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Wow, I never would have guessed the guy who platforms the most famous antisemitic comedy in the German language today on his show might also be thin-skinned about people calling out his misogynistic jokes
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If a train from Germany —>Austria is delayed, the Austros always passive aggressively blame “eine Verspätung im Nachbarland“ without naming the D-word
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I asked my students how things were going with their daily commutes with the Bahn and this appeared in the class group chat
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In a bus with 44 students in Thüringen. Winterdienst had to spray the Autobahn with water to keep the road from melting. Students sleeping after taking their anti nausea meds due to the heat and bus riding. The bus driver is whistling to Lady Gaga‘s Bad Romance.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Hot bikram Deutschland
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Tomorrow‘s practical German lesson plan: how to submit your delayed train ticket to DB for compensation
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My B1 students in Germany may not be good with Konjunktiv II but they know every part of the train, the train tracks, and the train system through daily Betriebsstörungen. A win is a win.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Brühl is a little oasis so you can brüllen in den Abgrund
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Koblenz sounds like it has goblins, especially in springtime
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Horrem and Düren sound like scary places but they aren’t. Aachen sounds like bodily pain.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
1,001 nights but instead of Scheherazade it’s in Germany and it’s 1,001 dm Tuchmasken auf der endlosen Suche nach Feuchtigkeit
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Honestly surprised more venues haven’t cancelled Mirna Funk after her mediocre last book. But maybe it’s cause she will silence and sue anyone who exposes her grift
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A great pleasure is wearing a hoodie in summer cause it’s chilly in Bonn
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sommergrippe. Deutschland hat mich mal wieder erwischt. 🛏️
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NSU-Watch @nsuwatch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wir gedenken heute Walter #Lübcke. Der Kasseler Regierungspräsident (CDU) wurde vor sieben Jahren, in der Nacht vom 1. auf den 2. Juni 2019, von einem Neonazi auf seiner Terrasse in Wolfhagen-Istha bei #Kassel ermordet. Er wurde 65 Jahre alt. #KeinVergessen #RechtenTerrorStoppen
Sharepic: Schwarzer Hintergrund, ein schwarz-weiß Bild von Walter Lübcke. Text: Wir gedenken Walter Lübcke.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Of course I visited Xatar while in Bonn.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Why should Germany place its unconditional trust in an institution led by a prominent political lobbyist who publicly opposes a two-state solution, when support for a negotiated two-state solution remains the official policy of the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt)?
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Mirna Funk‘s real gift is calumny and then skipping out to Israel to escape the consequences.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And why Texas me has a sun allergy flare for the first time in 30 years in Bonn?
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Something they don’t tell you about Bonn is that there are seagulls here
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Seems like a great moment to do a deeeeep dive on this guy’s bio for once
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As Molly Ivins quipped about Pat Buchanan, Thiel‘s digital eugenics “probably sounds better in the original German”
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
For my birthday this year, I’m gonna start a surprising Jewish research archive 🗂️🗄️🎤🏛️
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
No, but really… where do they find these people
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s antisemitism if it happens to certain Germans but if it happens to actual Jews, antisemitism is nowhere to be found
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
On Philipp Peyman Engel‘s serious credibility problem
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the Diasporist @thediasporist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Eva Menasse über Philipp Peyman Engel, das deutsche Feuilleton und wer entscheidet, was in Deutschland jüdisch ist. thediasporist.de/de/die-verfo...
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Die verfolgte Unschuld – the Diasporist
Philipp Peyman Engel, das deutsche Feuilleton und wer entscheidet, was in Deutschland jüdisch ist
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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*
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Philipp Engel: Nur Rassisten nennen meine Mutter Iranerin! Seine Mutter dazu: Die Verbundenheit mit dem Iran ist immer noch da
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
The way his jacket is brown
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Back to Bonn this summer and not sad
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
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....
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
The librarians at A&M presented me with a Jewish Studies “housewarming” gift - the first Yiddish sci-fi fantasy novel ever 💕💕
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
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.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Finally, a birth announcement at my university: the new Jewish Studies program at Texas A&M speaks!
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
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! 👻
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Big career victory to have a post land on a Jewish meme sharing group
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
It’s probably time for a golem
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Shabbat-Aufzüge gibts übrigens auch, Herr Precht 😒
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
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
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
No justice without humility. Determined not to lose friends over hard and bitter politics.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
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
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Debbie Shahar Brown Mathias and Shlomi Mathias were killed protecting their teen son
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
"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...
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
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.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Happy weekend from the pink house geckos on my porch
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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.
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ashley passmore @wunschkrapferl.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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 💉
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