Jewish Studies scholar, public historian, Jewish heritage tours leader, trailrunner, dad. 🏳️🌈🇺🇦
Portland, OR
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Coming out with Stanford University Press in 2020!
Stepchildren of the Shtetl is a study of the outcasts of Jewish society in eastern Europe – beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans.
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Academic twitter (and esp. historians): what are your 2-3 favorite works on the body, theoretical or empirical? I'm analyzing a miracle tale with lots of body stuff and need to get some perspective.
I will talking about my book, Stepchildren of the Shtetl, this Sunday, in conversation with Glenn Dynner and Eva Hoffman. I'm looking forward to the discussion!
This is a remote event.
@PSUJudaic @PDXCLAS @PSU_History @polinmuseum
polin.pl/en/event/polin-book…
Fantastic piece in today's @nytimes by @DanBilefsky and Maham Javaid about the role of queer soldiers and veterans in the push for LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine. #UkraineRussiaWar
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This is an amazingly insightful essay on Heartstopper.
New video in which I explain why I loved #Heartstopper and why I think it's such an important show. Any support would be greatly appreciated!
youtu.be/PXn1PttcB_w
Great piece.
Also up today: A masterful history by @shternsh detailing the complex way antisemitism figured into Soviet Jewish experience: Antisemitism was a fact of life for Soviet Jews, but it did not top their list of reasons to leave.
jewishcurrents.org/the-ambiv…
This is going to be a great event!
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"New Haman will follow his predecessor's fate." Amen! h/t Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack #Jewishstudies #Purim2022 @jewish_studies
I was asked to contribute to this forum of historians commenting on the crisis on Ukraine through the lens of Jewish history.
Now on the blog: @DavidNMyersUCLA curates a JQR forum
featuring Eliyana Adler, Elissa Bemporad, Natan Meir, and Jeffrey Veidlinger
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources…
NOW!!!
Last chance to book for our special Ukraine Zoom event in aid of @WJRelief and in association with @JewishBook tonight: jewishrenaissance.org.uk/eve…
Guest speakers include @AGlaser, @NatanMeir, @Josephine_Dash, @BorisDralyuk and @SashaDugdale.
📸 Mural on Andriyivsky Street, Kyiv
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Very glad that LARB asked me to write this review. Freedman's erudition is astonishing. @PDXCLAS @jewish_studies @stanfordpress
Natan M. Meir considers the intersections between Decadence and Jewish modernity via Jonathan Freedman’s latest book. loom.ly/eVrpXoc
This is exciting.
Congratulations to the following SUP authors for their books being named Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 by @Choice_Reviews:
@DrCassiaRoth for A Miscarriage of Justice
Rosie Bsheer for Archive Wars
@aaronjakes for Egypt's Occupation
@NatanMeir for Stepchildren of the Shtetl
ALT Choice certificate naming 4 SUP titles (listed above) Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021
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Honored to be giving this lecture in a series named in memory of my friend Sam Johnson.
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Starting next Monday 6/28 I'll be teaching a four-week online class on my book, Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe. It's hosted by the Aquarian Minyan Yeshiva. Please spread the word! aquarianminyan.com/civicrm/e…
Really looking forward to this conversation! @tjhtpl @PDXCLAS
@jewish_studies
Marginalized Jews: Communal Outcasts in Eastern Europe
with Prof. Natan Meir, Portland State Univ.
&
Prof. Sylvie Anne Goldberg, EHESS, Paris
taubecenter.org/16nm/
ALT book jacket of Stepchildren of the Shtetl
@ICCEES2020 Please tell me how to get in touch with you. Emails to [email protected] are getting returned.
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@nytimestravel Any idea what the chances are of Schengen-area residents being permitted to travel to US this summer? A lonely grandmother in Holland wants to know. 😔
@allthestations @geofftech Geoff, do you know if anyone has done an All the Stations in other countries? France? Holland?
I'm very excited about the compelling essay by @MagdaTeter in the latest NYRB that includes my book!
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PSA: This film (A Light Ahead/Fishke der krumer) has a cholera wedding, in case you've been reading @NatanMeir's Stepchildren of the Shtetl or @RokhlK's discussions of the topic (both highly recommended). 10 pm Central Europe, 9 pm UK, 3 pm East Coast US. Dir. by Edgar Ulmer!
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