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Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
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🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · Feb 24
I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d
I don't know much about her but this is great and Dartmouth must have lots of Trumpies on its board.
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d
president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Short and to the point
Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
president.dartmouth.edu
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 7d
😂
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 7d
Frantically preparing for the holiday
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Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 8d
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/c...
'A perfect storm' — more colleges at risk as enrollment falls and financial pressures mount
In part due to the Trump administration's changes to the student visa policy, there are fewer students on college campuses this fall.
www.cnbc.com
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 8d
forward.com/opinion/7726...
'For the sins we have committed': Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world
Hovering over this 5786 holiday season is a sense of moral and spiritual crisis that calls out for liturgical innovation.
forward.com
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 8d
That "enemy from within" thing is kind of ringing a bell for me but
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 8d
mood
Hitler and Hindenburg on "Potsdam Day," March 31, 1933
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations, Michelle! And your paper was a banger
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 9d
My book was a Finalist for two awards at this year’s German Studies Association conference: the David Barclay Book Prize, and the DAAD/GSA Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences.

Link to download the open access PDF below 👇

@universitypress.cambridge.org @ghiwashington.bsky.social
Woman holding book
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
Finally got around to uploading my scans from the ÖNB in July. This is from the Viennese Political Cabaret
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
"The robot [machine-person] is invented, pushes the workers out of the factor, the soldiers out of the battlefield, and finally, inevitably, humanity out of life."
Robert Plank, "The Triumph of Technology," Vienna, 1929
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
"Der Maschinenmensch wird erfunden, verdrängt die Arbeiter aus der Fabrik, die Soldaten vom Kriegsschauplatz, und schließlich -- unentrinnbare Folge -- die Menschheit aus dem Leben," Robert Plank, "Der Triumph der Technik"(Wien, 1929)
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
For once he kind of has a point
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
Wait, let me see if I have this right: democrats are accusing ICE agents of murdering Christian children and using their blood to make matzah to [checks notes] incite pogroms against ICE?
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 13d
Here’s JD Vance accusing Democrats of “blood libel” against ICE agents.

Historically, blood libel referred to the false claim that Jews murdered Christians to use their blood in rituals.

Dangerous language on every level.
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
That should be self evident, but sigh, it needs to be said again and again
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
and we should enjoy things of great beauty in these trying times
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
I did just have a birthday
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
🤔
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
I’ll be in touch
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
Someone is happy to see me
Orange cat in a suitcase
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 9d
I’m here all week
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10d
And 2 people I know well and kind of grew up with as historians
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10d
Very niche skeet
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10d
I was so tired I confused Jonathan Zatlin with Jonathan Wiesen
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10d
Opa ftw
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10d
I was so tired I confused Jonathan Zatlin with Jonathan Wiesen
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