Shachar Pinsker
@spinsker.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Writer, Editor, Translator.
Please read the interview that Nir Hasson did with Assaf David in Haaretz. It's really important www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
One of the few Israelis with a direct line to Gazans urges public to confront horrors
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www.haaretz.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Please read the interview that Nir Hasson did with Assaf David in Haaretz. It's really important www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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August 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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“We spoke about bread, the most urgent necessity of our lives.”
Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.
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Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/wi...
August 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“We spoke about bread, the most urgent necessity of our lives.”
Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/wi...
Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/wi...
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For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism
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Opinion | How Trump's ‘antisemitism’ deal with Brown University actually endangers Jewish students
The agreement, the latest between the Trump White House and major universities, raises pertinent issues about who is protected and who is not.
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August 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
The Big Ten Rises Up
Against Trump
The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.
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August 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
Martin Shaw, the author of “What is Genocide?” and “The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza” reflects on this moment in the global debate newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken
Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails
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July 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Martin Shaw, the author of “What is Genocide?” and “The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza” reflects on this moment in the global debate newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.
Beyond the Land “is a timely monograph that guides us through Jewish literature and art of the twenty-first century in Israel, America, and Europe.”
Shachar Pinsker reviews this “thought-provoking and hopeful book.”
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Shachar Pinsker reviews this “thought-provoking and hopeful book.”
@spinsker.bsky.social
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
July 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.
Reposted by Shachar Pinsker
The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
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July 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Thanks for a great conference!
BIAJS is sadly saying goodbye to #Glasgow after three amazing, intense conference days at #BIAJS2025, organised by our president Mia Spiro on the theme of crossing borders. In this thread, some images from the week…
July 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thanks for a great conference!
Horrific news. IU is one of the best public universities.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Horrific news. IU is one of the best public universities.
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Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Learning the story of Persian letters helps us better understand Iran as it is today and how it views itself, the world, and its future, writes Muhammad Ali Mojaradi
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The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry
Even a casual observer could notice the importance of poetry in Iranian society, if only because a disproportionate number of tourist sites in Iran are the graves of medieval poets. When classical poe...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Learning the story of Persian letters helps us better understand Iran as it is today and how it views itself, the world, and its future, writes Muhammad Ali Mojaradi
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-k...
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-k...
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Shachar Pinsker offers reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer.
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June 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Shachar Pinsker offers reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer.
ingeveb.org/articles/ref...
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My reflections on Yiddish in Palestine/Israel following a recent book by Gali Drucker Bar-Am are published in a new essay @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/ref...
The Vanguard of Their Peoples: Reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer | In geveb
We are discovering that the story of Yiddish in Palestine/Israel is vast, complex, and utterly fascinating, and it’s being written not (yet) by a novelist or fi
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June 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My reflections on Yiddish in Palestine/Israel following a recent book by Gali Drucker Bar-Am are published in a new essay @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/ref...
Looking forward to this lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-...
May 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looking forward to this lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-...
April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I fear only demons - Sami Michael
The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”
The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”
Sami Michael Broke New Ground by Centering Arabs in His Hebrew Novels
The Iraqi-born writer introduced characters previously marginalized or omitted from Israeli literature
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March 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I fear only demons - Sami Michael
The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”
The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”
On Monday, April 15, 6pm, I will give the Fordham-NYPL Lecture: “When Yiddish Was Young in Israel,” presenting materials from my new research. I hope to see you at Fordham Lincoln Center (140 West 62nd Street). For more details and to register (in-person and online), see here: tinyurl.com/b256yt34
April 2, 2024 at 6:29 PM
On Monday, April 15, 6pm, I will give the Fordham-NYPL Lecture: “When Yiddish Was Young in Israel,” presenting materials from my new research. I hope to see you at Fordham Lincoln Center (140 West 62nd Street). For more details and to register (in-person and online), see here: tinyurl.com/b256yt34