Dr Will Jones

Verzaubert – Drittes Reich und Wirtschaftswunder – Geschichten vom anderen Ufer youtube.com/watch?v=QDZVN1… A thread: 1/15

@ankahajkova @utpress @JenniferVEvans So excited for this!!! Congratulations Anna!😁🎉 It was a pleasure and privilege to be a part of this translation!

And it’s done! Viva passed with no corrections this afternoon. Thank you so much to @JenniferVEvans and Matt Cook for taking the time and for making the viva such a lovely experience. On to the book? 👀

Congratulations to @WilliamJones_14 on a stellar PhD diss defence with important new work on male sexual violence during the Holocaust. You can read about their research in a recent open access article in @JHR_Haifa /1 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My long awaited first publication is out! Any questions, comments, or concerns, my DMs are open to you colleagues. Let me know your thoughts! More to come in my thesis.

Submission of the PhD coming soon. I want to make sure to cite young scholars who are currently or have recently completed PhDs of their own on sexuality and sexual violence d/ the Holocaust. If you are one or know of one, please lmk! I do not want to miss anyone.

1/ I’m an Israeli historian. My community is still too silent about the horrible war in Gaza. Over 8 months I’ve closely followed the war, reading >1000 articles and viewing >1000 videos/images of the war from all sides. My summary conclusions & full report are in the 🧵:

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

Reminder! Deadline for submission is only a few days away!

First draft of my last chapter is... done? OMG.

Call for Participants! Workshop on Marginalized Histories of the Holocaust hosted at the University of Oxford. Please circulate widely to your networks!

My review for @JenniferVEvans latest book, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism," is out now at Gender & History! It is an impressive work that all historians working on queer histories should read. doi.org/10.1111/1468-0…

Please share widely: on October 19th at 10am EST, Emma Awe (@CU_History), Kaileigh LaBelle (@queensu) and Noe Bourdeau (@CU_History ) will present their research in a webinar on New Directions in Queer History. Part of #2SQHMCan. carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/98006514511

We are absolutely delighted that Zoë Waxman has been made Professor of Holocaust History at the @FacultyofAMES, @UniofOxford! Many #congratulations to Professor Waxman on this well-deserved appointment. ames.ox.ac.uk/article/zoe-wa… #JewishStudies

EVERYONE WAKE UP!!!! NEW ZAV ARTICLE JUST DROPPED!!!!

Second publication alert! Come for the new source material on trans feminine life under Nazism, stay for the spicy takes doi.org/10.1111/1468-0…

I have a group of about 20 files, all scans from post-war trials records, and for some reason I did not record where I got them from... why do I do this to myself.

@ChristineErinWL @HolocaustMuseum @LaurienVastenh1 @SamuelSpinner So lovely to see you!!! Safe travels back. Will see you at the Wiener sometime soon.

Here is the thread of info and summary for anyone interested!!! twitter.com/WilliamJones_1…

Has anyone here heard of the "lost" but recently found documentary film "Verzaubert" on queer survivors of the NS-Zeit? Here is the link to the recently posted full documentary, in German with English subtitles: youtube.com/watch?v=QDZVN1…