Dr Uta Rautenberg
@utarautenberg.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Author of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
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I will have this book event next week on Tuesday in London. In person, in Finchley:
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“People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust” by Dr. Anna Hajkova
This book reveals the lives of those persecuted both as Jews and as quee…
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January 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I will have this book event next week on Tuesday in London. In person, in Finchley:
www.paperlesspost.com/go/5DWDypqTg...
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I just learned that "People without History Are Dust" is shortlisted for the National Jewish Book award. Alongside other fantastic books, such as that of my dear friend Kasia Person -- we are siblings at @uoftpress.bsky.social.
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75th National Jewish Book Awards Shortlist
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January 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I just learned that "People without History Are Dust" is shortlisted for the National Jewish Book award. Alongside other fantastic books, such as that of my dear friend Kasia Person -- we are siblings at @uoftpress.bsky.social.
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/75t...
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/75t...
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Congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social & Katarzyna Person!
People Without History Are Dust & The Hour of Revenge have been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards, Nonfiction.
Vital works reshaping Jewish history & Holocaust memory: bit.ly/4jIqG5J
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
People Without History Are Dust & The Hour of Revenge have been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards, Nonfiction.
Vital works reshaping Jewish history & Holocaust memory: bit.ly/4jIqG5J
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
75th National Jewish Book Awards Shortlist
Click here to purchase tickets to the 75th National Jewish Book Awards Ga
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January 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social & Katarzyna Person!
People Without History Are Dust & The Hour of Revenge have been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards, Nonfiction.
Vital works reshaping Jewish history & Holocaust memory: bit.ly/4jIqG5J
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
People Without History Are Dust & The Hour of Revenge have been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards, Nonfiction.
Vital works reshaping Jewish history & Holocaust memory: bit.ly/4jIqG5J
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
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Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/
Shattered Liberation
Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946 challenges the notion of joyous liberation of Holocaust survivors by the R...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/
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Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st...
Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social
Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I am very pleased to see the announcement of Uta Rautenberg's much expected book on homophobia in Nazi concentration camps:
Very excited to share - coming in 2026!! @utpress.bsky.social utpdistribution.com/978104980440...
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps is a seminal study of the often-stigmatised topic of homophobia among prisoners in Nazi camps. This book reinterprets ...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am very pleased to see the announcement of Uta Rautenberg's much expected book on homophobia in Nazi concentration camps:
Very excited to share - coming in 2026!! @utpress.bsky.social utpdistribution.com/978104980440...
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps is a seminal study of the often-stigmatised topic of homophobia among prisoners in Nazi camps. This book reinterprets ...
utpdistribution.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very excited to share - coming in 2026!! @utpress.bsky.social utpdistribution.com/978104980440...
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Now available: People Without History are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory by exploring same-sex desire in the Holocaust.
“It could not be a more urgent and timely message.” Benjamin Carter Hett, author
Order your copy: bit.ly/483yOtz
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
“It could not be a more urgent and timely message.” Benjamin Carter Hett, author
Order your copy: bit.ly/483yOtz
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December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Now available: People Without History are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory by exploring same-sex desire in the Holocaust.
“It could not be a more urgent and timely message.” Benjamin Carter Hett, author
Order your copy: bit.ly/483yOtz
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
“It could not be a more urgent and timely message.” Benjamin Carter Hett, author
Order your copy: bit.ly/483yOtz
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
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In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Book Talk: People without History are Dust, Anna Hájková - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is delighted to host Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt about Dr. Hájková’s new book, People without History are Dust: Queer…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
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On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
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My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
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I will discuss my new book with @schuneke.bsky.social on 9 December online in the IHR history of sexuality seminar (together with History of Germany seminar), online
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People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust
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October 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I will discuss my new book with @schuneke.bsky.social on 9 December online in the IHR history of sexuality seminar (together with History of Germany seminar), online
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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:
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Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center
A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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...
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
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August 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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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
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...
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT
Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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
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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
August 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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
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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.
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you can preorder below.
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July 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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....
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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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.
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Urning - University of Toronto Press
Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
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July 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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....
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Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.
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.
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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...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.
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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.
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.
🚨🚨 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.
Zur Erinnerung: Die Doku wurde FÜR DIE BBC gemacht. Diese hat sich dann aber geweigert, sie auszustrahlen.
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.
July 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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.
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.
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"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...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"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...
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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
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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
newfascismsyllabus.com
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📣 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
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
June 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📣 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
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
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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...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...