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Zachary Mazur

@zacharymazur.bsky.social
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Historian @Polin museum Research Fellow @ih_pan. Author of “To Kill a Spy” (coming very soon!) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048577040/to… www.zacharymazur.com 📍Warsaw, Europe

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CEU Review of Books @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Credit to the Nation (@harvardpress.bsky.social), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the US by extending credit to those whom traditional lenders would not serve. @zacharymazur.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/credi...
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Credit where it's due: Jewish immigrant bankers and American finance - CEU Review of Books
In Credit to the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2026), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Eastern European Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the United States by extending credit to ...
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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#cfp The War That Never Ended: Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe #Polin @zacharymazur.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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The War That Never Ended: Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe
Call for Papers: international conference held at POLIN Museum on World War I, 23-25 November 2026 Deadline for submissions: 22 June 2026 Apply through the POLIN website: https://polin.pl/en/event/war...
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In The Polish Review 70.4, @zacharymazur.bsky.social reviews: 📘 "Night Without End..." ed. by Jan Grabowski & Barbara Engelking 📘"Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864–1915" by Malte Rolf ( @upittpress.bsky.social ) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/issu...
Cover of The Polish Review, Volume 70, Number 4, 2025
Photo of a pencil illustration by Aleksander Orłowski, "Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko," on blue background
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Did you check out The Polish Review 70.4? Contributors include Ola Sidorkiewicz ( @ox.ac.uk ), @zacharymazur.bsky.social , Wanda Dzwigala ( @utoronto.ca ), Michał Schwabe ( @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social ), and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/issu...
Cover of The Polish Review, Volume 70, Number 4, 2025
Photo of a pencil illustration by Aleksander Orłowski, "Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko," on blue background
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European Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
On First View: @zacharymazur.bsky.social unravels a complicated story of interwar authoritarianism in Poland. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Who’s the sovereign? Legitimating constitutional authoritarianism in interwar Poland
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Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies. Let’s see what was there this year. 🧵
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
MAGA: “Pretend sex trafficking bad! Comet Ping Pong!” Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...
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Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie
Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1521… Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …
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Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Great review by @davidsmrcek.bsky.social of Claire Morelon’s book on Prague. Excited to see the book now! ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sound...
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Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague - CEU Review of Books
In Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the ...
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Leipzig lights by night
Christmas market, people, cityscape Christmas market, people, cityscape Christmas market, people, cityscape Christmas market, people, cityscape
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Are you working on a project about revolution or the revolutionary experience? Consider submitting a proposal to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Would you like to join the discussion? If you are a scholar (ABD or PhD required) and you have an interest in submitting a guest post that explores the concept of “revolution” or the re…
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
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Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Snowy day in Warsaw.
Doggy looking at camera on a snowy day Snow, dog, park
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
After some important sleuthing on Wikipedia I learned that Matt Gaetz’s father lives in the house that was used for the Truman Show.
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a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front
ALT: a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front
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Lale Can @lalehjoon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Cemetery for troops from Celje (🇸🇮) tucked into the mountains, designed by Dušan Jurkovič
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This week I’m attending a workshop to help the town of Gorlice plan a new museum of the First World War.
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Touring First World War cemeteries around Gorlice.
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :) go.bsky.app/QMHzmog
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Even in the cold rain, Krakow looks lovely.
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room? Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic. open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services) #Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy 1/2
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The art of Teaching About Violence
Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · Episode
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edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
so here's the bsky starter pack that you didn't know you needed. wondering what grift kushner & ivanka tr*mp are pulling buying up property in the balkans? sarajevo on your mind? or just want some wholesome stories about an ottoman-era donkey? we have you covered! go.bsky.app/AcUhygT
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂) go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv
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Lindsey Wieck @lwieck.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hi friends! I've been trying really hard to keep this list diverse. Recommendations welcome, especially of BIPOC & queer (etc.) public historians whose voices you'd like to see elevated here! go.bsky.app/53FhZd1
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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I'm putting together a history of medicine (broadly defined) starter pack. Please let me know if I missed you. And please share and make suggestions for people to include And remember - "medicine" is a lot bigger than orthodox medicine/biomedical science, despite what they say go.bsky.app/KzT74Ai
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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) at night. Oh, just kidding it’s mid afternoon.
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Good morning Toronto! Headed to New York after a very successful event at Beth Tzedec Synagogue. Over 400 people in attendance and very engaged in the history of EE Jewry.
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Georgetown today!
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Welcome to Florida!
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Shout out to all the people who remember this thing. (Don’t try to guess my weight!)
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Today I’m starting a three-week lecture tour, speaking about Jewish history and bringing a bit of what POLIN Museum has to offer to the US and Canada. You can check the details here:
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Just checking out what the city museum in Žacler (Czechia) has to offer…
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Introducing myself here with my article that has been quite popular “Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe” Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️
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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Historians of Eastern Europe, let's do a thread below to find each other easier! Share your main country/ies of expertise and your dominant approaches! 🗃 My main contexts are state socialist Hungary and Yugoslavia (from outside the region, Vietnam and Cuba), and I do women's history. #skystorians
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Polish neighborhood bodega… that Żywiec box is a dead giveaway
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
I can’t be the first to think of this, but how about a western civ course called “From Plato to NATO”?
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Some key terms here! #emo
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Can humanities scholars create a website where I can find the “state of the field” for anything? Figuring out where the debates are is sooooo time consuming
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Littlewisehen @littlewisehen.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Legendär!
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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
In the Forestry Museum in Gołuchów: “We have Zygmunt Berling’s desk, but we aren’t very proud of it…” (Gen. Berling led a Polish unit in the Soviet army during WWII, hero of communist Poland, later Minister of Agriculture and Forestry)
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