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Valentin Sandulescu

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Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃 https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you!

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 22h

📚 Our book published with Central European University Press (an imprint of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ) has finally arrived and it looks really cool😀!

#newbook #academicsky #skystorians #JewishStudies 📖 🗃️

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 9d

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Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live

The campaigner, a

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 12d

✌️Happy for 🇲🇩Moldova and its future 🇪🇺! What a day! #Moldova #Elections

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 14d

🗳️Crucial elections in Moldova this Sunday. #Moldova #Elections
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How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation

An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 17d

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · 26d

❗📚 #skystorians

Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 26d

BUREAUCRACY, WORK AND VIOLENCE: The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, edited by Alexander Nützenadel, translated from the German by Alex Skinner, is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4m9MkAf

#History #GenocideHistory #academicsky

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Sep 11

📚 Looking forward to reading this forthcoming edited volume from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social on nationalism from below in the East European and Soviet borderlands 🗃️

#Nationalism #EasternEurope #skystorians #academicsky

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nationali...

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Aug 4

Peak acting success 📢🐮🐺

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Jul 30

📣 Research #fellowships via @ehri-project.eu for scholars interested in the study of the Holocaust in multiple archives and institutions 🗃️

www.ehri-project.eu/conny-kriste...

#Fellowships #Skystorians #Archives #Holocaust #ConnyKristelFellowships

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Jul 9

New 📚 from @universitypress.cambridge.org

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust (4 Volume Hardback Set)

www.cambridge.org/us/universit... 🗃️

#Holocaust

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Democratic US Senator Padilla forced to ground, handcuffed by security agents

Democratic U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was shoved out of a room, forced to the ground and handcuffed by security after attempting to ask a question at a Thursday press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Jun 5

Everything we thought we knew about DJT and EM is being confirmed as we speak by EM and DJT 👍🤣 #DJT #EM #don'tstop

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Jun 2

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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · May 18

Just to sum it up 🙂
✌️Big win for 🇷🇴Romania, 🇲🇩Moldova and the 🏴EU.
👎Big loss for those who want a weaker 🏴EU (you know who you are 🤣).

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · May 18

A victory in more ways than one 🙂 🇷🇴🇲🇩🇪🇺 #byebye

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · May 9

#EuropeDay #ZiuaEuropei

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Apr 29

29 April 1945 | The US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany which became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camps system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered there.

Aerial photo of the Dachau concentration camp

Crowds of prisoners of Dachau standing in front of the line of barracks. The fence of the camp is visible on the left.

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 The Rhodes Scholarships for Global (any other country/region) @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships...

#rhodesscholarship #romania #moldova

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢 Open access article by @cercel.bsky.social on a very interesting topic. 🗃️

#skystorians #academicsky

Cristian Cercel @cercel.bsky.social · Apr 15

I published something in the latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. It’s on the Lorrainians/French in Banat, it’s in English and it’s open access. Check it out here: www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a... www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a...

(How) Could One Be French in Banat (1770–1920)? | Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung

www.zfo-online.de

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Russian missile strike kills dozens in Ukrainian city of Sumy

Volodymyr Zelenskyy decries attack on ‘ordinary city street’ while people were going to church for Palm Sunday

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 9

New 📖 from @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social ➡️ Globalizing Europe - A History 🗃️

www.cambridge.org/ro/universit...

#skystorians #globalhistory #Europe

Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social · Apr 8

Scholars at risk from war zones and refugees of conscience (scholars fleeing authoritarian regimes) are especially invited to apply.