Posts by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
(DIR) Post #AVYlBR6SneKft2vZui by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-11T22:46:45Z
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@CitizenWald almost there. The final is due on May 15th.
(DIR) Post #AVYlt92xILlEcw82gi by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-11T22:54:40Z
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@CitizenWald I try not to exceed 30-35 po per class that meets twice/week. Sometimes I do, but then I let students choose different readings so there's always someone who read something. For once/week seminar try not to assign more than 50-60pp.I focus readings on primary sources with a secondary source and then structure assignments around each type of sources.
(DIR) Post #AVYmXDAdNjqv04pFWS by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-11T23:01:54Z
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@CitizenWald I have an assignment where they choose one book from a list and have to write an essay based on the book. I use my research budget to buy them the book do they don't take an ebook from the library. I want them to have a physical experience of reading a book. This is new since COVID.
(DIR) Post #AVYmYuq4VeO6j01KBk by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-11T23:02:11Z
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@CitizenWald happy to share sylabi
(DIR) Post #AVa26S2plTn9jnOmeW by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-12T13:31:03Z
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@CitizenWald that could be a good final assignment to have them read the book and write an essay about it it in light of the class readings.
(DIR) Post #AVrSqyTTIngcNeSyzA by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-20T23:20:52Z
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@CitizenWald Wishing you strength!
(DIR) Post #AVrUEqeu70G72qlHxg by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-20T23:36:24Z
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@CitizenWald I know. It can always be better and it can always be worse. It's good to know you have friends sending you support vibes!
(DIR) Post #AVrWoz6qMzeTaUBmrY by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-21T00:05:20Z
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@CitizenWald That's a great story!
(DIR) Post #AWBMvNE0VaqNjo97aq by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-05-29T21:56:40Z
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This seems like an appropriate film for Memorial Day:Leo Hurwitz's "Strange Victory" (1948). Watch it. Honor the veterans. We are still in this fight.Featured is Virgil Richardson, a Tuskeege pilot who could not get a job when he returned to the US from fighting the Nazis in Europe.I discuss this film and its context in my book "Christian Supremacy." Watch the film thoughhttps://leohurwitz.com/movie/strange-victory/
(DIR) Post #AWEQrLq2EPXMSO3uPg by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-06-01T00:46:35Z
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Very excited about this next week, though not without trepidationhttps://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2023-03-24/natalie-zemon-lectures-2023-confirmed
(DIR) Post #AWYj6QGRk4qYrcwzuC by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-06-10T18:28:21Z
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Vienna celebrates Pride month by reprogramming cross lights: sometimes F ❤️ F, sometimes M ❤️ M, sometimes F ❤️ M. Note the hearts, too. Here are two women holding hands, in green walking, in red standing.
(DIR) Post #AdHO691Vvws0T1FwCu by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:22:59Z
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A short thread on the iconography of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel cartoons that have been published since October 7th, especially in Arabic-language publications but also on social media. This thread shows the Nazi and Soviet roots of this iconography, both had an impact on Arab visual culture and anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli propaganda. Let's start with the image of Jesus as a crucified Palestinian that spread on social media on Christmas. In 1930, Der Stürmer published a cartoon representing Germany as Christ, being crucified by Jews. 1/n
(DIR) Post #AdHO6A7DsD1xr0w0kC by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:23:48Z
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Here is a comparison of a cartoon from Al-Bilad, November 26, 2023 (Bahrain) with a Nazi publication "Juden über Deutschland"
(DIR) Post #AdHO6B1EVxpkej8k2y by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:26:46Z
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The ubiquitous imagery showing Netanyahu and Israelis as bloodthirsty and cannibalistic harkens back to the premodern child murder libels that were popularized by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. This Nazi iconography draws on the Nazi use and abuse of premodern history and premodern anti-Jewish iconography. They were always eager to situate their antisemitic ideas in a longer history.Examples here: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitism-arab-cartoons-during-israel-hamas-war-chronology-dehumanization-jews
(DIR) Post #AdHO6BvF9idXSRLTLk by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:28:57Z
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The Nazis connected Jews to everything and their imagery is very adaptable. Compare this cartoon of liberty in bondage from Al-Bilad, November 11, 2023 (Bahrain) to the one from Der Stürmer
(DIR) Post #AdHO6D2izODOvvqxeK by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:30:24Z
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And then there is the antisemitic and anti-Zionist Soviet-era propaganda. Here is a notorious anti-Trostky/anti-bolshevik poster with Trotsky as the devil and cause of mass death. There are other examples that pin mass murders in the SU on Jews, also showing piles of skulls.
(DIR) Post #AdHO6EE6aYuebWBZ1k by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:33:14Z
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The ubiquitous comparisons between Israel and Nazis, that's also a Soviet invention, as is the comparison of Israeli leaders to Hitler and the competition for the status of the worst leader in the world. These Soviet anti-Zionist tropes emerged after 1967.
(DIR) Post #AdHO6FC0zoppbKDPPM by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:33:51Z
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Israel as the puppet of the US--that's in the anti-Zionist Soviet propaganda. This is now rare, instead we see more of a reverse, Israel as the sinister manipulator of the world--that goes back to the antisemitic hoax "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
(DIR) Post #AdHO6GUUAdChctrfpw by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:36:08Z
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And there is also the use of racist European imagery. Here is a comparison of Netanyahu depicted as a cannibalistic "savage" in the imagery taken directly from European iconographic vocabulary developed for the depictions of "savages" of what we now call the Global South. This iconography has its roots in the early modern period.
(DIR) Post #AdHO6HITAnBc7vFakK by MagdaTeter@hcommons.social
2023-12-28T19:40:06Z
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There is also Soviet propaganda with cultural appropriation of Jewish suffering. This is a cartoon from Al-Sharq with the iconic photograph by a Red Army photographer after the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, then reimagined in 1970 as anti-Zionist imagery. And now. Here is the original photo and below the photo cropped to the exact frame as the cartoon. end/