Jewish Book Council @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Betsy Herbin-Triant @eherbin.bsky.social Scholar of African-American history, Amherst College. Author of Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods. Nature-lover.
Killian Clarke @kbclarke.bsky.social Scholar of revolution, protest, Middle East
Assistant Professor at Georgetown SFS
Website: www.killianclarke.com
Max Strasser @maxstrasser.bsky.social Editor
Gail Labovitz @gailsl.bsky.social That’s Rabbi Dr. Professor to you! Faculty (Rabbinic Literature and Halakhah) at the AJU/Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and Conservative rabbi. she/her
SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social For more info about Stanford University Press, our books, and our authors, please be sure also to check out / follow our main channel,
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Democratic Theory. Book: The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy. Bylines Dissent, Boston Review, etc
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Greta Colombani (she/her) @gretacolombani.bsky.social Short stories on vampires, queerness, the end of humanity, etc. | Dr in Romantic ghosts @cam.ac.uk | Co-investigator of BA/Leverhulme "Mapping Italian Literary Cafés, 1720-present" | @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Events Organiser for Oxfordshire & Berkshire
Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social Official account for the Institute for Iranian Studies (Iranistik) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
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Nir Shafir @nirshafir.bsky.social history prof, ottoman and otherwise
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Dr James A.S. Sunderland @jamesassunderland.bsky.social Research Fellow. PDRA at St Edmund's, University of Cambridge. Historian of British ruled Palestine and Jewish political violence. Dphil, Merton College, University of Oxford
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more.
www.derspekter.org
Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social Books: How to be a Heroine, Take Courage, Chopping Onions on my Heart / Always Carry Salt.
Plays inc How to Date a Feminist
I am mostly on Instagram.
www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
https://open.substack.com/pub/samanthaellis1?r=53sh&utm_medium=ios
The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social Publishing top scholarship in Judaic studies for over a century, now in open access. Find our archives on JSTOR and recent issues on Project Muse.
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
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Wadham College @wadhamcollege.bsky.social Academic excellence within a welcoming, inclusive and progressive community.
Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social Postdoc on the visual representations of the Wandering Jew & other migratory myths @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & Winchester School of Art | PhD on Vladimir Nabokov @parkesinstitute.bsky.social | comms for @biajs.bsky.social- J James Loeffler @jloeffler.bsky.social Historian/Writer, Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins History
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
Véronique Altglas @valtglas.bsky.social Sociologist researching religion, social class, and politics. Queen's University Belfast. Trade union activist. Tá Gaeilge Agam; falo português do Brasil; にほんご を べんきょう します。
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
Yiddish Book Center @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity.
Justine O-S 🪞 @justineodashs.bsky.social writer! MA. folklorist, hobby baker, באָבעלע. repro funder, covered in cat hair.
AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY out now from University Press of Mississippi 📓
📍New Jersey
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-American-Girl-Anthology
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Jenny Caplan @jennycaplan.bsky.social Associate Professor and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Sports fan and professional geek.
Author of Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Editor of Wit Happens
drjennifercaplan.com
Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער. Writing on Jewish issues at www.toratalbion.org.uk
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Lloyd Barba @elprofebarba.bsky.social Relig Prof at Amherst College | current research areas: immigration, Pentecostalism, Latino religion, sanctuary movt., & Cesar Chavez | Go Blue!
Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
Lital Levy @litallevy.bsky.social
Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History
Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️⚧️
https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
Nathaniel Shils @nshils.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Amherst College.
Youssef Ben Ismail @youssefbens.bsky.social history, law, and middle east studies at Amherst College.
www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/ybenismail
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Palestine/Israel Review @pir1948.bsky.social Palestine/Israel Review is an open-access journal that provides a platform for exchanging knowledge, scholarship, and ideas among scholars who share the relational, integrative, and holistic approach to the study of Palestine/Israel.
Manchester Jewish Museum @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social A place to experience how we are different, together.🤝
Sharing the stories of Jewish Manchester with the world. 🌍
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social Historian of modern India, technology, foreign relations; editor (Contingent Magazine)
Edo Steinberg @edosteinberg.bsky.social Indiana University Media School Ph.D. candidate researching Israeli and American satire. Frequent punster, occasional improvisor.
In Be'er Sheva, Israel.
Alexander Thatcher @alexthat.bsky.social American working on the Caucasus and Turkey, focusing on Armenian and Circassian issues. Yaratılışta bilgim olmadan var olan ne varsa rızam olmaksızın var.
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Contemporary Levant @contemplevant.bsky.social A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social; https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
The Wingate Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social The only UK literary award to recognise authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Established in 1977.
http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine and Human Shields
@jamesgustafson.bsky.social @jamesgustafson.bsky.social
Belle Cheves @bcheves.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
Senior Editor at @AjamMC.bsky.social (ajammc.com)
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Jewish Review of Books @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Subscribe at https://www.ezsubscription.com/jrb/subscribe
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Magdalena Kozłowska @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social academia & ngo (or in the reverse order); writing in my own name; she/her; book on orientalism and Eastern Europe published with @berghahnbooks in 2022
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social A Journal of Yiddish Studies 🦚(www.ingeveb.org)
The Podcast of Jewish Ideas @jewishideaspod.bsky.social Exploring the great ideas at the heart of the Jewish tradition.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2NDDXuT8p9FkkcBgP7n6sG?si=5f7cad31f0694283
Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies
Eirik Kvindesland @kvindesland.net Writer, historian, Post-doctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Formerly at Oxford.
www.kvindesland.net
Lihi Yona @lihiyona.bsky.social Law & Criminology Professor, University of Haifa.
Critical Race Theory, Antidiscrimination, Prisons, Mizrahi Legal Theory (it's a thing).
💛Magda Teter🟦📖 @mteter-historian.bsky.social Historian/author: "Blood Libels, Hostile Archives"/"Christian Supremacy"/"Blood Libel"/"Sinners on Trial"/"Jews&Heretics" Fordham; NYRB
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies at New York University
- MA Program in Near Eastern Studies
- Public Programs
- K-12 Outreach Teacher Training
- National Resource Center
linktr.ee/NYUKevo
UCL Middle East Research Centre @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social A focal point for in-depth research on the Middle East and North Africa, and its intersection with the wider world, from antiquity to the present. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/middle-east-research-centre
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social Indigenous, Amazigh scholar.
@rossoukh.bsky.social @rossoukh.bsky.social
Roni Henig @ronihenig.bsky.social Assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature, nyu | Author, On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (UPenn Press, 2024) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512826609/on-revival/
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Zachary Braiterman @zacharybraiterman.bsky.social Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought & Culture. Blogs at jewishphilosophyplace.com
Amit Levy @amitlevy.bsky.social Migration and Knowledge, European/Jewish/MENA Late Modern History | Author of ‘A New Orient’ (Brandeis University Press, 2024) | Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Managing Editor, Naharaim
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Shayna Weiss @shaynamalka.bsky.social Jewish studies scholar and pop culture obsessive.
Holy Waters is out May 2027! https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/holy-waters/9781978848375
Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton.
Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Anna Roiser @annaroiser.bsky.social UK Friends of Standing Together (steering group). New Israel Fund UK (trustee). Lawyer.
Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Yiddish, The Ohio State University / A Taytsh Manifesto: https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509170/a-taytsh-manifesto / new project: shund.org
Dr Erin MB O’Halloran @erinmbohalloran.bsky.social Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. New book East of Empire is out now. I also help authors & academics finish their books. erinmbohalloran.com
Aviad Moreno @aviadmoreno.bsky.social Historian specializing in Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism, with a focus on Middle Eastern, North African, and Latin American Jewish communities. My work explores migration, memory, and identity through a global lens.
Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
Maryam Alemzadeh @maryamalem.bsky.social Assoc. prof. at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Writing a book on Iran's Revolutionary Guards