Agata Paluch
@agpal.bsky.social
Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
📆 Closing date: 2 January 2026
Apply via: professorships.uni-koeln.de
Apply via: professorships.uni-koeln.de
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📆 Closing date: 2 January 2026
Apply via: professorships.uni-koeln.de
Apply via: professorships.uni-koeln.de
#skystorians: permanent position (professorship with tenure track to W3) in early modern global history has just been advertised at the University of Cologne, please share widely! berufungen.uni-koeln.de/tender/showP...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#skystorians: permanent position (professorship with tenure track to W3) in early modern global history has just been advertised at the University of Cologne, please share widely! berufungen.uni-koeln.de/tender/showP...
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A PhD position (65%) in Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne - details 👇
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June 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A PhD position (65%) in Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne - details 👇
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
A PhD position (65%) in Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne - details 👇
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
June 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A PhD position (65%) in Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne - details 👇
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
#jewishstudies
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Fellowship Announcement: Scholarship program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 2026 Annual Theme: Small Forms – Between Materiality, Mediality and Genre #MaterialCulture
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Scholarship program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: annual theme 2026 "Small Forms" | H-Net
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is home to exceptional historical special collections of manuscripts, printed works, maps, musical materials, and other collection objects, both in terms of scope and qu...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Fellowship Announcement: Scholarship program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 2026 Annual Theme: Small Forms – Between Materiality, Mediality and Genre #MaterialCulture
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Junior Professorship (W1) with Tenure Track leading to W2 for Jewish Studies at Hamburg University. Deadline: 19 June 2025.
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Junior Professorship (W1) with Tenure Track leading to W2 for Jewish Studies
Hamburg University searches a candidate for a Junior Professorship (W1) with Tenure Track leading to W2 for Jewish Studies. Deadline: 19 June 2025. OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as foll...
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May 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Junior Professorship (W1) with Tenure Track leading to W2 for Jewish Studies at Hamburg University. Deadline: 19 June 2025.
#jewishstudies
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#jewishstudies
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Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social
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Rethinking Chabad Historiography: A Review Essay on Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | In geveb
While not the first, Rubin’s book is among the very few that aim to address the history of the Chabad movement as a whole, placing its major figures in dialogue
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May 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social
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An exciting (and permanent) opportunity for specialists in (modern) Jewish Studies to work with a great team in Erfurt: www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
33/2025 W2-Professur für Religionswissenschaft mit einem Schwerpunkt auf transnationale Verflechtungen mit Career-Track zu W3 (w/m/d)
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May 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
An exciting (and permanent) opportunity for specialists in (modern) Jewish Studies to work with a great team in Erfurt: www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...
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#HybridEvent | Workshop at the CSMC Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture on Spatio-temporal Profiles of Multigraphic Written Artefacts | www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor...
🗓️ From May 22, 2025 to May 24, 2025
🗓️ From May 22, 2025 to May 24, 2025
Register for a CSMC workshop
www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#HybridEvent | Workshop at the CSMC Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture on Spatio-temporal Profiles of Multigraphic Written Artefacts | www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor...
🗓️ From May 22, 2025 to May 24, 2025
🗓️ From May 22, 2025 to May 24, 2025
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#CfA | W2-Professur für das Fachgebiet Jüdischer Film und audiovisuelle Erinnerung an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025
May 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#CfA | W2-Professur für das Fachgebiet Jüdischer Film und audiovisuelle Erinnerung an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025
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Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires at University of Cambridge
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...
Tomorrow (May 20), a conversation on Islamic magic traditions in European intellectual history, with Charles Burnett (Warburg), Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U. South Carolina), and Michael Noble (Exeter) warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/europ...
European Magic and its Traditions - Islamic Magic
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May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tomorrow (May 20), a conversation on Islamic magic traditions in European intellectual history, with Charles Burnett (Warburg), Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U. South Carolina), and Michael Noble (Exeter) warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/europ...
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#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i...
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i...
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
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"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
www.publicnotice.co
April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
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Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)
University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...
Tomorrow (April 9), a conversation on Jewish magic in European intellectual history, with Moshe Idel (Jerusalem) and Saverio Campanini (Bologna): warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/jewis...
European Magic and its Traditions - Jewish Magic - RESCHEDULED
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April 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Tomorrow (April 9), a conversation on Jewish magic in European intellectual history, with Moshe Idel (Jerusalem) and Saverio Campanini (Bologna): warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/jewis...
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3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Study
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March 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
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Decent people thank Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
Have you seen this book?
Since we as trainees get the chance to visit many libraries, and spend a lot of time in them day-to-day, I thought I would introduce to you a different kind of library today: The Library of Lost Bo…
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine...
#LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience
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CfA: Lecturer in Hebrew at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne
Deadline for application: March 3, 2025
Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfa-...
Deadline for application: March 3, 2025
Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfa-...
February 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CfA: Lecturer in Hebrew at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne
Deadline for application: March 3, 2025
Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfa-...
Deadline for application: March 3, 2025
Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfa-...
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We are now accepting #applications for our #Hebrew #ManuscriptStudies: #Codicology, #Palaeography, #ArtHistory #workshop (23 Jun-4 Jul)! Deadline to apply 21 Feb, 12 noon UK time: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We are now accepting #applications for our #Hebrew #ManuscriptStudies: #Codicology, #Palaeography, #ArtHistory #workshop (23 Jun-4 Jul)! Deadline to apply 21 Feb, 12 noon UK time: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
Elon Musk bei AfD-Wahlkampfauftakt in Halle (Saale) zugeschaltet
»Seid stolz, Deutsche zu sein«: Von einer Videoleinwand sprach der Techmilliardär Elon Musk zu AfD-Anhängern. Der Trump-Berater verbreitete seine Erkenntnisse über die »deutsche Kultur«, in der Messeh...
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January 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
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Closing date now extended until 02 February 2025
Job vacancy: Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer in UCL Special Collections. Full-time role but job-share applications considered. Fixed-term post until 1 March 2028 tinyurl.com/48m2mckj
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January 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Closing date now extended until 02 February 2025
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Call for Applications: Oxford Center for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is February 14. jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2025/01/09/c...
Call for Applications: Oxford Center for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is February 14. - Jewish Heritage Europe
The Oxford Center for Hebrew & Jewish Studies has issued a call for applications for its Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is February 14. Two of the fellowships would be open to resea...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Call for Applications: Oxford Center for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is February 14. jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2025/01/09/c...