Jonathon Catlin
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Postdoc at the University of Rochester Humanities Center | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Brilliant piece by Bartov on how denial has always been an intrinsic component of genocide, from postwar Germany to today: "the reality in which most of the population in Israel lives is founded on layers of denial, amplified by the vast majority of the country’s media"
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Brilliant piece by Bartov on how denial has always been an intrinsic component of genocide, from postwar Germany to today: "the reality in which most of the population in Israel lives is founded on layers of denial, amplified by the vast majority of the country’s media"
Omer Bartov, in conversation with @hahauenstein.bsky.social: “After some thinking, I decided that I can’t go to Israel anymore, at least as long as this government is in power.”
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Holocaust Historian Omer Bartov: How Germany Enabled the Genocide in Gaza
Podcast Episode · Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein · 11/09/2025 · 34m
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November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Omer Bartov, in conversation with @hahauenstein.bsky.social: “After some thinking, I decided that I can’t go to Israel anymore, at least as long as this government is in power.”
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In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If Americans want to challenge their country’s illiberal turn, they need to stop clinging to the recent past,” Sven Beckert says in a guest essay. “Like other economic regimes before it, it is gone. Resurrection is impossible and to aim for it is politically disastrous.”
“If Americans want to challenge their country’s illiberal turn, they need to stop clinging to the recent past,” Sven Beckert says in a guest essay. “Like other economic regimes before it, it is gone. Resurrection is impossible and to aim for it is politically disastrous.”
Opinion | Capitalism Is Constantly Reinventing Itself. That’s Why Things Feel So Volatile.
We are in the middle of the capitalistic order reinventing itself.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If Americans want to challenge their country’s illiberal turn, they need to stop clinging to the recent past,” Sven Beckert says in a guest essay. “Like other economic regimes before it, it is gone. Resurrection is impossible and to aim for it is politically disastrous.”
“If Americans want to challenge their country’s illiberal turn, they need to stop clinging to the recent past,” Sven Beckert says in a guest essay. “Like other economic regimes before it, it is gone. Resurrection is impossible and to aim for it is politically disastrous.”
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„Wer verfolgt die Komplizen?
Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.“ Nitzan Lebovic (nach langem vor-sich-hin-schieben, wie er berichtet) in der TAZ
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Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.“ Nitzan Lebovic (nach langem vor-sich-hin-schieben, wie er berichtet) in der TAZ
taz.de/Aufarbeitung...
Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen in Gaza: Wer verfolgt die Komplizen?
Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.
taz.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
„Wer verfolgt die Komplizen?
Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.“ Nitzan Lebovic (nach langem vor-sich-hin-schieben, wie er berichtet) in der TAZ
taz.de/Aufarbeitung...
Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.“ Nitzan Lebovic (nach langem vor-sich-hin-schieben, wie er berichtet) in der TAZ
taz.de/Aufarbeitung...
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As of today, five million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust have been identified. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Names of 5 million of 6 million Jews killed in Holocaust now identified
Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As of today, five million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust have been identified. www.reuters.com/business/med...
"If, for the supposed safety of Jewish people, one is prepared to unleash a great wave of dehumanization once again because a German majority feels threatened by foreigners, then the consensus is merely the same old German tradition..." @deborahfeldman.bsky.social
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www.fr.de/kultur/debor...
Deborah Feldman: Deutschland, das Land ohne Immunsystem
Nach dem Terrorangriff vom 7. Oktober fühlt sich Deborah Feldman in Deutschland entfremdet und kritisiert die Instrumentalisierung jüdischer Menschen.
www.fr.de
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"If, for the supposed safety of Jewish people, one is prepared to unleash a great wave of dehumanization once again because a German majority feels threatened by foreigners, then the consensus is merely the same old German tradition..." @deborahfeldman.bsky.social
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www.fr.de/kultur/debor...
Jonathan Boyarin:
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November 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jonathan Boyarin:
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Mark Mazower speaks on his new history of the term “antisemitism” and its distortion and abuse in recent years: newbooksnetwork.com/on-antisemit...
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Mark Mazower speaks on his new history of the term “antisemitism” and its distortion and abuse in recent years: newbooksnetwork.com/on-antisemit...
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Such an important conversation between @mashagessen.bsky.social and Marianne Hirsch about Holocaust memory, genocide, and Palestine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Such an important conversation between @mashagessen.bsky.social and Marianne Hirsch about Holocaust memory, genocide, and Palestine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Tomorrow!
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Tomorrow!
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I wrote about what the Weimar Republic tell us about political violence: time.com/7321664/poli...
Can Democracy Survive Political Violence?
Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by democracy’s enemies.
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wrote about what the Weimar Republic tell us about political violence: time.com/7321664/poli...
Nothing to see here, Volks!
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nothing to see here, Volks!
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Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring
by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch
web.sas.upenn.edu
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @samfranz.bsky.social
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
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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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In a new think piece for the JHI forum on Political Economy, Alexandre Aloy interrogates the concept and historical genealogy of neoliberalism by situating it alongside transnational narratives of authoritarianism.
“Authoritarian Neoliberalism”: The Concept of Our Time?
by Alexandre Aloy
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
web.sas.upenn.edu
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In a new think piece for the JHI forum on Political Economy, Alexandre Aloy interrogates the concept and historical genealogy of neoliberalism by situating it alongside transnational narratives of authoritarianism.
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The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
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Hey hey, German Studies in the news again!
Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hey hey, German Studies in the news again!
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
Brilliant interview with Ben Ratskoff on how the Nova Exhibition commemorating October 7 “invites visitors to participate affectively and imaginatively in immersive theatrics as a kind of vicarious victimhood.” @thediasporist.bsky.social
thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...
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Schlock and Awe – the Diasporist
Ben Ratskoff on the immersive traumatization at the Nova Exhibition
thediasporist.de
October 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Brilliant interview with Ben Ratskoff on how the Nova Exhibition commemorating October 7 “invites visitors to participate affectively and imaginatively in immersive theatrics as a kind of vicarious victimhood.” @thediasporist.bsky.social
thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...
thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...