Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 21d

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!

Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center

A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

katz.sas.upenn.edu

18 28

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thank you - yes I did that and reported to Bluesky

1 1

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you have received a direct message from me for a voting request, please ignore. I did not send this and have asked Bluesky to investigate

1 6

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Virtual Book Launch:
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT

Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

3 6

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1

1 4 8

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

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....

1 24 77

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jul 16

Yesterday I had a great lunch with @history-doug.bsky.social whose highly readable book I read recently. "Urning" is a very readable and important contribution to 19th century German history and the emergence of modern queer identity.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Urning - University of Toronto Press

Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century

utppublishing.com

1 3 14

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jul 21

Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.

doew.at @doew.at · Jul 21

Im April hat Anna Hájková ihr Buch „Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub. Queeres Verlangen im Holocaust“ im DÖW präsentiert. Auszüge von der Veranstaltung und ein Interview mit der Historikerin wurden nun in ORF-Beiträgen gesendet.
volksgruppen.orf.at/cesi/radiote...
on.orf.at/video/142825...

Historička Anna Hájková| „Číst holocaust queer perspektivou“

Historička Anna Hájková v rámci své badatelské práce nepátrá primárně po zmínkách o queer identitě obětech holocaustu, ale o jejich queer chování. Odkrývá jak příběhy sexuálního násilí, tak i romanti...

volksgruppen.orf.at

6 19

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Jul 9

Die Doku, die die BBC nicht senden durfte.

Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.

Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.

Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.

Passiert natürlich nicht.

ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨🚨 Für alle, die wegen der Doku und eines Links geschrieben haben: Die Doku ist jetzt auch auf YouTube zu sehen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dc2...

Zur Erinnerung: Die Doku wurde FÜR DIE BBC gemacht. Diese hat sich dann aber geweigert, sie auszustrahlen.

ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · Jul 3

Die BBC hat sich geweigert, diese Doku über israelische Black Sites auszustrahlen. Meine Kollegin Budour hat zur Vorgehensweise in den Black Sites und zum Umgang mit den Gefangenen dort recherchiert.

2 14 45

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Beneath the streetlights, a patrol car parks up at the gates of the cemetery in Potočari. On 11 July 1995, the village set the scene for what was to be the largest mass killing in Europe since the second world war." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Thirty years after the genocide, the peace of Srebrenica hides deep scars | Alixandra Fazzina

Today, the landscape looks picturesque – but it holds memories of the largest mass killing since the second world war. A photojournalist meets some of the Bosnian Muslim survivors building new lives a...

www.theguardian.com

4 8

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · Jul 5

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.

newfascismsyllabus.com

3 47 100

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 24

📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed!

Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.

Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B

A graphic featuring the front cover of the book by helen FInch - German-Jewish life writing in the aftermath of the Holocaust, alongside photographs of Anna Hájková and Helen FInch

9 11

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · Jun 27

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Book cover for Jonah Garde's "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne
»Geschlechtsumwandlung« im 20. Jahrhundert und ihre kolonialen Geister." The figure of a ghostly apparition floats behind the text against a dark background.

2 6 27

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Jun 24

One week to go! Eine Woche noch! 🌈 Kommt alle, Universität Bremen, 2.7.! Ich freue mich @lisamirabai.bsky.social

Lisa Hellriegel @lisamirabai.bsky.social · Jun 24

Bremen! Wer sich für die Geschichte von Homophobie und queerem Verlangen in den NS-Lagern interessiert, sollte den Vortrag von @utarautenberg.bsky.social am 02.07. in unserem Forschungskolloquium (18:15-19:45) nicht verpassen. Ich bin schon sehr gespannt darauf! 🌈

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Apr 8

www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

Super excited about this! @lisamirabai.bsky.social Kommt alle am 2.7. Universität Bremen

4 10

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jun 20

www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...

Podcast series explores how LGBT people were treated during the Nazi era

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Eric Marcus about the latest season of his series Making Gay History, which explores the lives of LGBTQ people during the Nazi era.

www.npr.org

2 6 11

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jun 19

And for the pride month (so far coming with horrible news every day) I give you something really good: Uta’s book is now officially a thing!
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Jun 19

In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

1 5 17

Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social · Jun 19

In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

2 16

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jun 17

And here is a bit about him from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ausc...

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Feb 18

18 February 1886 | Czech Jew, Vilém Kraus, was born in Radějovice. A leather importer. He lived in Prague with his non-Jewish wife Marie and their children Edita and Pavel.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He perished in the camp.

A historical black-and-white photo of a family of four. The family includes a man wearing a flat cap and suit, a woman in a dark coat and cloche hat, and two young girls dressed in vintage clothing, standing together in an outdoor setting. A girl is holding small bouquets of flowers.

A sepia-toned portrait of a middle-aged man with a serious expression. He has a mustache and is dressed in a formal suit and tie. The photograph bears his signature in cursive writing at the bottom.

2 4 24

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

WHN Annual Book Prize

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

womenshistorynetwork.org

85 62

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · Jun 7

So I wrote an essay about images of women kissing in the Holocaust. Noone knows who they were. They are lesbian chimeras.
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942

Two women kissing through a fence with staring intrusive onlookers

3 10 57

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jun 9

Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.

Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

1 7 14

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

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

Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Das letzte Ghetto

Die erste analytische Geschichte einer Häftlingsgesellschaft während des Holocaust: soziale Hierarchien und Gewohnheiten in Theresienstadt.

www.transcript-verlag.de

1 19 45

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

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

Strebel's book has been out for 22 years. I remember when it came out. *Some* colleagues writing on Ravensbrück were complaining how this source was missing & that detail was not correct. There were some petty reviews.
Not a year passes by that I do not pull out that book and always find the answer.

3 24

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Lisa Hellriegel @lisamirabai.bsky.social · Jun 2

Ich freue mich sehr, nächste Woche im Kolloquium Kultur/Geschichte an der Uni Bielefeld Einblicke in mein Dissertationsprojekt „Von Sittlichkeit zu Selbstbestimmung? Sexualisierte Gewalt in deutschen & englischen Großstädten, 1920er-1960er Jahre“ zu geben: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/event/lisa-h...

Vortragsankündigung: 12.06.2025 - Lisa Hellriegel (Bremen): Von Sittlichkeit zu Selbstbestimmung? Eine Geschichte sexualisierter Gewalt in deutschen und englischen Großstädten, 1920er bis 1960er Jahre

2 10

Reposted by Dr Uta Rautenberg

Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social · May 29

Seit ein paar Jahren gebe ich Schreibworkshops für Nachfahr*innen von NS-Verfolgten. Immer mal wieder sind auch Personen aus Sinti und Roma Communities dabei. Und es erschüttert mich jedes Mal, wie alleingelassen sie werden. Wobei, nein, das ist das falsche Wort: Sie sind nach wie vor massiv bedroht

Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · May 29

"Die Bundesregierung streicht de facto das Amt des Beauftragten für den Kampf gegen Antiziganismus. Die Stelle werde nicht nachbesetzt. Mehmet Daimagüler, der das Amt bis vor wenigen Wochen innehatte: „Eine Abschaffung des Amts wäre ein Schlag ins Gesicht für die Sinti und Roma in Deutschland.“

Schutz von Sinti und Roma: Neue Regierung verzichtet auf Antiziganismus-Beauftragten

Das Familienministerium besetzt die vakante Stelle des Antiziganismus-Beauftragten nicht nach. Ex-Amtsinhaber Daimagüler spricht von einem „Schlag ins Gesicht“.

taz.de

9 190 530