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Dr Anna Hájková

@ankahajkova.bsky.social

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Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jul 25

Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating conversation!

The Holocaust History Podcast @holocaustpod.bsky.social · 2d

New episode just dropped!

I talk with Hannah Pollin-Galay about the effect of the Holocaust on Yiddish. How does a language work during a genocide? How did Jews use language to make sense of the Holocaust?

This is a really fascinating conversation! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 63- Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Nazis’ physical war on Jews also had important cultural repercussions.  One of these was its assault on Yiddish.  The Holocaust not only murdered many Yiddish speakers and destroyed Yidd...

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 3h

Stippvisite

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 6h

Entschuldigung: 0

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 6h

Und heute kommt:

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 6h

Ich schrieb zurück (weil ich höflich bin)

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 6h

Wegen des großen Erfolgs:
am 30. September bekam ich diese Email:

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Johannes Spohr @jspohr.bsky.social · 23h

Verlegung eines Stolpersteins in Kyjiw: Die Einweihung wird aufgrund eines Luftalarms im Keller der Schule fortgesetzt. Es ist der 12. Stolperstein in Kyjiw und die 2. Verlegung seit der vollumfänglichen Invasion Russlands.

Eine Person in ein Mikrofon, davor liegt ein Stein auf einem Tisch. Mehrere Personen fotografieren.

Eine Person mit orangener Warnweste befestigt mit einem Gummihammer einen Stolperstein.

Eine Person legt eine Blume an einem Stolperstein nieder, drumrum stehen andere Personen.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 22h

Tari, I have seen offensive statements from "Zionists" and "antizionists," some of them friends and former friends, so I go easy on the w*nker-terminology.

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23h

- but I am a bit taken aback by all the toxicity, blindness, moralizing, and what not from various sides. I would even gladly take the moral grandstanding and idiots taking down the hostage posters if it would stop the war, but ofc it will not.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23h

I hope the war will stop, however problematic the proposal. There will be damage, polarization, hard feelings, and very little closure, there will be vindictiveness and worse. Of course it is all nothing in comparison with the destruction of Gaza -

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23h

- seeing the former allies and friends ignoring 7 October, antisemitism on the rise. The one does not excuse the other, the genocide in Gaza will not bring back the kibbutz victims, telling Jewish kids in school that they are responsible for Israel will not stop the war.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 23h

What can I say on the second anniversary of 7 October that I have not said many times? It's an altogether horrible watershed: hundreds of Israelis murdered, hostages lingering in torment, two million in Gaza as fair game, slaughtered by day, IDF descending into madness, and yes, also -

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 1d

ja, ich fand den Taz Artikel um einiges empathischer als die Meldung in LTO.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 1d

das unterschreiben auch all die Studis die AI benutzen

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 1d

ja!

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 1d

Via @patrickheinemann.bsky.social
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Von allen guten Geistern verlassen

Eine Doktorandin gibt für 16.900 Euro eine Arbeit in Auftrag und das Ergebnis ist mangelhaft. Sie möchte ihr Geld zurück und zieht vor Gericht. Doch, macht die Richterin deutlich, so einfach ist das n...

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Thorsten Logge @tlogge.bsky.social · 2d

Heute startet der erste Jahrgang des neuen Master Public History Hamburg (#MAPH). Folgt uns auf Insta: www.instagram.com/publichistor.... Wir freuen uns auf die Orientierungseinheit.

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

there are hazelnuts, plentiful and tiny

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

blackberries here are gone due to all the rain

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

do you have chestnuts where you are or too far North?

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

yes please Sean🙏🏻

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

For those who understand Czech the last ca 40 min of this podcast @respektcz.bsky.social were excellent, informed, analytical
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Velká analýza voleb: Rozpadne se Spolu? Bude referendum o EU a NATO? A co zmůže víc žen?

Podcast Episode · Týdeník Respekt · 04/10/2025 · 1h 56m

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

and progressive, or more so, the countryside and less educated people vote more populist. ANO is not only populist but also a welfare oriented party. Motorists have a largely male electorate. There are probably some websites explaining the system more in depth @martindbbrown.bsky.social do you know?

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

I will write a thread explaining tonight, hard to do that from my phone. For now: the 🇨🇿parliamentary election has a 5% treshold, the parliament has 200 seats, there are no direct mandates, but each voter has four preferential votes (“circling”). The cities, younger, and educated people vote liberal

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | They Have Waited Two Years for the Hostages. These Are Their Rituals.