Closely Watched Tweets: As We Build the February 24th Archive
Since it began over a month ago, I’ve gotten letters, candles, chocolate, books, clippings, postcards, a blue-yellow dog collar, buttons, ribbons, offers to walk my […]
Month: March 2022
Ukraine’s Future, and Ours
In recent days, amid the horror of the news from Ukraine, I have found myself thinking about an old friend in Crimea. I will call […]
Old and New Faultlines in the Wake of Russia’s Assault on Ukraine
Demilitarization and denazification—when Vladimir Putin announced the goals of the Russian attack on Ukraine, I perked up. As a scholar of World War II and […]
“What Remains”: The Reverberations of War in Poland and Ukraine
“Do not forget to eat your vegetables” was not the message I expected to receive from a friend who now spends her days in and […]
Putin and the Weaponization of the Memory of World War II and the Holocaust
Much of the commentary so far on the Russian attack on Ukraine has focused on the intertwined historical and contemporary contexts of the Soviet Union […]
Historical Injury and Multidirectional Solidarity in Times of Crisis
For me, extending my support to and expressing solidarity with Ukraine means acknowledging my personal history of injury. Lately, every news story triggered a series […]
Into the Irrational Core of Pure Violence: On the Convergence of neo-Eurasianism and the Kremlin’s War in Ukraine
At the same time as Russian forces began blasting munitions at the Babi Yar memorial, the ravine in Kyiv where Nazi troops massacred over 33,000 […]
Navigating Research, Ethics, and Complicity in Russia’s War
“What I really want to know is what you think about the annexation of Crimea!” It was 2015 in Russia, and all was not well. […]
My Dear Friends, the Courageous Holocaust Scholars in Ukraine
At this time, my heart is with colleagues in Ukraine suffering under the conditions of invasion. As all other Holocaust scholars, my sleep has been […]
Seen from the “West” – What Went Wrong with Ukraine?
It is still difficult to shake off the disbelief: Putin is waging a brutal war in Ukraine. To the west of Ukraine, we are following […]
