Jonathan Lanz

Thrilled to announce the publication of my review article on children’s histories of genocide in @JournalGenocide. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Not to mention that the IHRA definitely is widely rejected by many scholars of antisemitism!

@Harrylegg1998 Check Roseman, A Past in Hiding; Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory, introduction; and The stuff of testimony (Caruth, Greenspan, etc.)

I am still looking for reading suggestions for the below:

@EFischberger I’m not sure that using Isaac Kook to support your POV is the best move…

I don't mean to brag, but I'm pretty sure my grandfather just wrote THE defining piece on anti-Zionism and antisemitism. My favorite parts: The holiday of Purim, celebrated by Jews around the world this weekend, commemorates a story in the Bible’s Book of Esther when the whole of the Jewish community in ancient Persia was threatened with extinction by the King’s adviser Haman and his cohorts. The story touches upon dimensions of antisemitism that were pungent back then, and have remained powerful and threatening across thousands of years. These forms of hatred of Jews past and present fall into three categories shaping the foundations of a nation: people, ideology and land. We have seen all of them in modern times. During the Holocaust the goal of the Third Reich was the genocide of the Jewish people; that is, murdering Jews because they were Jews. It was the same agenda that motivated Haman two millennia ago. During the Cold War, Soviet antisemitism came to the fore with a vengeance after the Second World War. It was based on loathing Jewish faith and ideology. Like Haman, the USSR’s leaders saw our Jewish culture and religious practices as alien to their state. Believing Judaism contrary to their Marxist view of the world, the Soviets didn’t allow Jews to live a Jewish life. Those who wished to emigrate were held as quasi-hostages behind the Iron Curtain. Today, antisemitism is often expressed by denying that Jews have the right to be sovereign in their own land. Yet, without sovereignty, there can be no security. Jews will forever be vulnerable to the next Haman to come along. Throughout the millennia, as a stateless people, Jews were subject to persecution, discrimination and expulsion. This is a historical reality that anti-Zionists conveniently ignore when they say they are not against Jews, just against Jews having their own state. Statehood is built into Jewish consciousness. Israel is more than just a place where Jews can be free and safe. As Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of pre-state Israel said: Israel is not external to Judaism but inherently part of Jewish consciousness. To wit: Jews across the religious denominations pray for the return to Zion in their daily liturgy. And religious or not, the vast majority of Jews feel inextricably, soulfully bound to Israel and describe themselves as Zionists. So while anti-Zionists defend themselves by claiming they are not anti-Semites, when anti-Zionists declare “no Zionists allowed,” they are actually saying, “No Jews allowed.” The fact that so many anti-Israel demonstrations are targeting Jewish rather than Israeli institutions underscores this dynamic. The interfacing of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism was never more apparent than on October 7. The goal of Hamas, like their antecedent Haman, goes beyond destroying Israel; its mission – as articulated in the founding Hamas charter – is to kill as many Jews as possible. Jews worldwide felt personally attacked that day, understanding that if Hamas could, each and every Jew would have been murdered.

@Harrylegg1998 In my early BA thesis days I once absent-mindedly used the term “Reichskristallnacht.” You should’ve seen the look on my Germanist advisor’s face!

A genuine question: The vast majority of survivors call the November pogrom of 1938 "Kristallnacht". Might that perhaps be enough of a reason for historians to do the same?

Also- what other work of fiction gets the same scrutiny? Even other Holocaust films like “Life is Beautiful.”

Critique the movie all you want (and we should), but its impact in inspiring interest in the Holocaust remains unmatched among every group of students I’ve encountered.

I can’t put my finger on it, but this graph makes absolutely no sense to me.

This is the final word on the current conflict in Israel and Palestine.

Learn how the @AuschwitzMuseum stole survivor Dina Gottliebova’s drawings and refused to return them to her even after years of pleading!

@jazzydomenique @andrew_i_port Fair, but if this slide was used in a graduate seminar (in any context but to critique it) the presenter would be slammed

@jazzydomenique @andrew_i_port “Traditional authoritarian German patterns” is a phrase straight out of the Sonderweg era and deserves no place in academic studies of German histories. It’s ahistorical and only serves to be provocative.

@RedneckNattySip @realHunterEstes Galatians 3:27-29

@JonathanLanz3 @realHunterEstes Looooooool of course the ((())) has this request. Shocker.

In Mississippi, we stand for the flag and kneel for the cross.

@realHunterEstes Shame.

@JonathanLanz3 No.

At the end of September, the SBC hosted the workshop Carceral Spaces in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Many thanks to all the wonderful speakers and a very well done to the organisers, @kar_hansen, @JonathanLanz3, and @jcret1! @HyPIRUoL

Had a wonderful day at the Carceral Spaces conference today! I presented this morning on the Rwandan Schoolhouse as a carceral space and have met some wonderful scholars today. I’m looking forward to the final presentations tomorrow! @UoLSBC @kar_hansen @jcret1 @JonathanLanz3

Seeing such brilliant colleagues putting my arguments to good use makes me feel extremely humbled &honoured. Thank you, @yuliaioffe* & @JonathanLanz3** & kudos on your thought-provoking articles! * doi.org/10.1080/146235… ** doi.org/10.1080/146235…

@RubleHistory @tnflorvil @gdrhistoria The classics have been so valuable to my work as a grad student. Maier’s Recasting Bourgeois Europe remains one of the most impactful works from my comps list.

Okay, folks, in your opinions, what books should go on a modern European history comps list for a grad student? I already included @tnflorvil and @gdrhistoria :-D

A compelling, and thought-provoking article from @JonathanLanz3 in @JournalGenocide. Give it a read. Lost (or Recovered?) Childhoods: Writing Children’s Histories of Genocide: Journal of Genocide Research tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…