Dr Jaime Ashworth

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Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him

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Amazing. If you are a potential reviewer (or know someone who might want to be, or an outlet that might be interested), please be in touch with me or University of Chicago Press for a galley.

#ShabbatShalom one and all. May we all remember that our understanding is imperfect and our knowledge partial.

#ShabbatShalom one and all. Hoping more than ever that we can find peace.

#ShabbatShalom one and all.

Does anybody else just wonder what happened to the idea that facts are important?

#ShabbatShalom one and all. Wishing you peace, safety and security this weekend.

Shabbat Shalom one and all. May you be blessed with peace and safety this weekend.

Some thoughts on The Fragility of Freedom *after* HMD 2024. framingthequestion.blog/2024/02/23/t...

People are commenting on the death of someone called David Irving today. I’m confused, because I don’t believe such a person ever existed.

A reasonable and compassionate approach to Israel and Gaza: we need more like this. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/fe...

#ShabbatShalom one and all. Hoping that this week might see an end to the violence and the dying and the separation of loved ones

Shabbat Shalom one and all.

Sad to hear of the death of Lawrence Langer. His work on #Holocaust testimony was groundbreaking. In later years I felt he fought too hard to foreclose the possibility of redemption even when it occurred, but he was a pioneer. Baruch Dayan Emet.

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Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

#ShabbatShalom one and all. After a week of teaching about the #FragilityofFreedom for #HMD2024 it’s clearer than ever that #Peace is the prerequisite for everything.

My classroom today and yesterday: the Lady Chapel at St Albans Cathedral.

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The UK government's criminalisation of rough sleeping, now passing through Parliament in the Criminal Justice Bill, is overseen by a Prime Minister who owns four luxury homes for his own use. One of them, in Kensington, is reserved for accommodating family guests.🧵

#ShabbatShalom one and all. More than ever, peace is essential.

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Since Texas banned abortions with no exceptions for rape or incest, 26,313 Texans have become pregnant from rape. That’s roughly 1,644 rapes resulting in forced pregnancy a month. Family court then traps victims with their rapists. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

More than 26K rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed abortions, new study sayswww.houstonchronicle.com More than 26K rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed abortions, new study says

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I wrote something: “Male Historians Explain Things To Me: masculinity, expertise and the academy”. With a huge debt to Rebecca Solnit, Sara Ahmed, Siri Hustvedt, Professor Lucy Robinson and many other feminists before me. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

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𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 @UKHSA! Study indicates: ‘𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 vaccination coverage would have been associated with considerable 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 in severe COVID-19 outcomes, particularly among those at-risk’. @TheLancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If you’re worried about the cyberattack on the BL, consider signing this petition to save the hard copies of wills. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

British Library news (2): BL Catalogue partially restored: bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se... "It is a snapshot as of April 2023, and we will not be able to add any new records to it for the time being."

Can anyone in my network help me access this, and Vol.6? My commitment to historical accuracy is expensive…

So saddened and ashamed by the dog-whistling against Sadiq Khan in relation to yesterday’s protest. This crisis is obliterating everything we hold dear.

The blatant double standard of the ICJ case does not diminish the seriousness of the charges.

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World ORT requires a part-time content director for the Music and the Holocaust website. We would be grateful if you would share this with potentially interested people. If you are interested yourself, visit the vacancy page on the ORT website. Thank you. ort.org/en/get-invol...

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Absolutely crackers to be doing this when we are living through a cautionary tale in the British Library at the moment.

New proposal to destroy hard copies of key historical documents (unless they relate to 'notable individuals' such as 'Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Diana, Princess of Wales'. Please read, reality check & respond. Consultation ends 23 Feb 2024 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Easier access to historic wills under new government planswww.gov.uk Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).

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Please consider signing> Petition Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 yearspetition.parliament.uk Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current le...

If you’re concerned about the government’s proposal to destroy the hard copies of wills, the petition is now live: #WhereTheresAWill petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...