Zachary Mazur

Cover of The Polish Review, Volume 70, Number 4, 2025 Photo of a pencil illustration by Aleksander Orłowski, "Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko," on blue background

Did you check out The Polish Review 70.4? Contributors include Ola Sidorkiewicz ( @ox.ac.uk ), @zacharymazur.bsky.social , Wanda Dzwigala ( @utoronto.ca ), Michał Schwabe ( @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social ), and more.
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On First View: @zacharymazur.bsky.social unravels a complicated story of interwar authoritarianism in Poland.

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Yeah, Americans don’t learn from anyone though. Most live in a bubble where nothing else exists. As DJT would say, SAD!

Welcome to my customary and super-random report from my hometown’s biannual antique market. It’s that time of the year various old and less-old objects almost come alive and swarm the city in a symphony of idiosyncrasies.
Let’s see what was there this year.

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I literally can’t tell if this is a joke

What a difference new lighting makes!

There’s a private message feature 😃

MAGA: “Pretend sex trafficking bad! Comet Ping Pong!”

Also MAGA: “Free Andrew Tate! Matt Gaetz is innocent!”

Jan 20, 2025-Feb 20, 2025

Come on over to POLIN for a tour and some lunch!

Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.

Big announcement!

POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28).

POLIN is offering very generous financial support.

More details below.

Please share!

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Commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz

I read this yesterday and did a double take. Interwar Poland was a huge country. But to be fair, he means “non-Great Power”

CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177

Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana
Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …

Thanks!

Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague - CEU Review of Books In Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Claire Morelon shows how the streetscape, as a medium of social upheaval and legitimacy, changed during the ...

Great review by @davidsmrcek.bsky.social of Claire Morelon’s book on Prague.
Excited to see the book now!

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Christmas market, people, cityscape

Christmas market, people, cityscape

Christmas market, people, cityscape

Christmas market, people, cityscape

Leipzig lights by night

Submissions Would you like to join the discussion? If you are a scholar (ABD or PhD required) and you have an interest in submitting a guest post that explores the concept of “revolution” or the re…

Are you working on a project about revolution or the revolutionary experience? Consider submitting a proposal to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/

Very exciting! Thanks for making this available open access 😊

Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…

🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️

Doggy looking at camera on a snowy day

Snow, dog, park

Snowy day in Warsaw.

a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front ALT: a man standing in front of a house with the number 36 on the front

After some important sleuthing on Wikipedia I learned that Matt Gaetz’s father lives in the house that was used for the Truman Show.

Cemetery for troops from Celje (🇸🇮) tucked into the mountains, designed by Dušan Jurkovič

This week I’m attending a workshop to help the town of Gorlice plan a new museum of the First World War.

Touring First World War cemeteries around Gorlice.

I made a starter pack for German History!!! Please repost, and comment if you'd like to be added! :)

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Even in the cold rain, Krakow looks lovely.

The art of Teaching About Violence Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · Episode

Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?

Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.

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#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy

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