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People Without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust Anna Hájková’s People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust is a short book about the experiences of doubly marginalized Holocaust victims.

For @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social, Hallel Yadin reviews People without History Are Dust, winner of the 2026 #NationalJewishBookAwards in the Holocaust category.
Read the full review: bit.ly/4lgoHX9
@ankahajkova.bsky.social

06.03.2026 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Barry Lipson has done a great service to those involved in the commercial #RealEstate world. It is a tribute to him as one of the leading real estate practitioners in Canada, that I highly recommend this book” Joseph Feldman, Independent Real Estate Consultant
Learn more: bit.ly/4bayudP

05.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social has presented the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust category) to People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This award “represents the best of Jewish literature.”
#NationalJewishBookAwards

05.03.2026 17:50 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us for the launch of #HumansOfAI at the University of Toronto Bookstore, where @josephwilsonca.bsky.social will be in conversation with Dan Browne.
March 26, 6–8pm EDT
Reserve tickets here: bit.ly/4cqKr0h
@UofTBookstores #FreeEvent

05.03.2026 17:26 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy’s Second Act makes the case for publics as a resource, not a risk.

“Essential reading for anyone striving to re-empower democracy. Beautifully written, brilliantly argued, inspiring, uplifting." - David Van Reybrouck

bit.ly/4tgmpuX

@petermacleod.bsky.social @richard-tk.bsky.social

05.03.2026 15:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“If you want to know about art in English Canada, and dazzle dinner companions with sharp observations and in-depth knowledge of names, trends, styles, galleries, and sales, Scene is the place to go.”

Read a new interview with author Harry Malcolmson: bit.ly/3OMRQ01

#ArtHistory #CanadianArt

04.03.2026 18:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Red Migrations has received an honourable mention by the American Comparative Literature Association for the 2026 René Wellek Prize!

Congratulations, @bgorski.bsky.social and @dr-tg.bsky.social!

Learn more about the book: bit.ly/47aPhet

#SovietHistory #EasternEuropean #MigrationStudies

04.03.2026 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Drawing on information studies, literary studies & caregiver interviews, Surviving Dementia Care reimagines caregiving as a deeply human experience. Attend the book launch at the UofT Bookstore. Register here: bit.ly/4ruAQKD

@dgcampbell26.bsky.social

03.03.2026 20:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Shining a light in the darkness.”

Health journalist @avisfavaro.bsky.social praises Surviving Dementia Care for helping future caregivers avoid “some of the confusion and guilt of the learning process.”

Read more: bit.ly/4qLu2a4

#DementiaCare #Caregiving

03.03.2026 18:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This #IndigenousAwarenessWeek, join @ulethbridge.ca for Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory 3.0: Gender and Generational Justice (Mar 6).

With Raising Spirit Team, Opokaa’sin, Blackfoot Women’s Empowerment Project, Blackfoot Gender Justice Collective & Centre for Feminist Research: bit.ly/4rL2iDI

03.03.2026 14:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In a new interview, author Filip Kovacevic of KGB Literati reveals how Soviet spies turned storytellers to spread propaganda & recruit the next generation of agents. Watch the podcast, here: bit.ly/475YZic

#LiteraryStudies #RussianLiterature @chekistmonitor.bsky.social @rolandebrown.bsky.social

02.03.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Drawing on research and #caregiver interviews, Surviving Dementia Care shows how to sort the chaos into 4 modes of care, so you can find the right information, and the right kind of support, when you actually need it.

Read more: bit.ly/4qLu2a4

@dgcampbell26.bsky.social #Dementia #Caregiving

27.02.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join Douglas McKnight on the 3rd of March in a talk on his new book, Echoes of the Past. He will be taking a deep dive into the community’s collective remembrance practices since World War Two.

Register Here: buff.ly/xO24vSm
@uoftpress.bsky.social

27.02.2026 10:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This new edition includes a foreword by infectious diseases expert Gerald A. Evans who highlights the persuasive power of media bias on public health as well as the state of Canada's #healthcare system over 140 years later.

Pre-order Plague: bit.ly/47cPNbR

26.02.2026 19:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Nuanced, historical, and wide-ranging, this is an important contribution to contemporary Canadian literary criticism.” Paul Barrett @uofguelph.bsky.social

Discover Nightmares of the National Imaginary: bit.ly/4rIZPK8

#CanLit #LiteraryCriticism #Surveillance

26.02.2026 15:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Donna Young's A Bridge to Nowhere takes us to 1980s and 1990s 'unravelling,' 'nowhere places' in the Maritimes and the Prairies with deep sensitivity, nuance, honesty, and brilliance.” Heidi MacDonald, University of New Brunswick
Learn more: bit.ly/4s5uL76
#GenderStudies #Ethnography

25.02.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On March 25, 2026, 7–9 pm, the Toronto #Holocaust Museum hosts a special evening celebrating survivor Rose Lipszyc and the launch of Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany, a new graphic novel that honours her story.

Details & registration: bit.ly/4tSAI99

25.02.2026 16:14 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran has been named a Finalist for the 2026 PROSE Awards in the World History category, awarded by the Association of American Publishers.

Congratulations, @behnazmirzai.bsky.social!

@americanpublish.bsky.social #WorldHistory

25.02.2026 15:58 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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"The name Jocelyne Bourgon is destined to be cited in the pages of Canada’s history." @patricedutil @torontomet.bsky.social
Read more about this new release: bit.ly/4aNG90f
@‌IPAC_IAPC #PublicService #Leadership #Governance

25.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy’s Second Act lays out how we can get to a new wave of democracy, one where citizens are real problem-solvers and not just spectators.

“What a vision. What a book” - Uffe Elbæk

Read more: bit.ly/4tgmpuX

@petermacleod.bsky.social @richard-tk.bsky.social
#PublicPolicy #Democracy

24.02.2026 21:20 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“People were using graffiti as a tool to express their political discontent in an otherwise censored state.” – @alexislerner.bsky.social

Listen to Alexis Lerner discuss her latest book, Post-Soviet Graffiti, on a new episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast: bit.ly/3MV4A42

#PoliSci

24.02.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“Whether you’re curious about AI or if it scares you to death, with Humans of AI Joseph Wilson provides us with a deep background field guide to technology that may, or may not, change our entire lives and world.” Shawn Micallef, Author
bit.ly/4tsesTe
#Technology

24.02.2026 19:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Join author D. Grant Campbell in conversation with Lynne C. Howarth for the launch of Surviving Dementia Care: The Realities of Caregiving on Thurs Mar 12, 6-8pm EDT at the UofT Bookstore. dgcampbell26.bsky.social

Register here: bit.ly/4ruAQKD

24.02.2026 18:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Presented by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social, the #NationalJewishBookAwards are “the most prestigious North American awards for Jewish books.”
The 2026 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category has been presented to People Without History Are Dust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social!

24.02.2026 14:42 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy’s first act built our institutions. Its second must build democratic publics.

@petermacleod.bsky.social & @richard-tk.bsky.social argue how hollowed-out civic life demands a new, participatory “second act” for democracy.

Read an excerpt in @thewalrus.ca: bit.ly/4kSvbew

#Democracy

24.02.2026 14:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Read a new article by Peter Macleod and Richard Johnson exploring a new era of #democracy: a shift from seeing citizens as risks to be managed to instead recognizing them as a powerful resource for solving shared problems.

Read more: bit.ly/3O93p1d

@petermacleod.bsky.social @richard-tk.bsky.social

23.02.2026 18:57 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A “spatial revolution” after 1917 is at the centre of Red Migrations, recognized by @aatseel.bsky.social as Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume.

“Red Migrations has the potential to shape future scholarship through compelling analysis of ‘red’ transnational flows and networks.” #SovietHistory

23.02.2026 17:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for sharing this. We are delighted to recognise William C. McKeown’s remarkable new edition of The Stones of Venice with our 2025 Book Prize. His scholarship, intro, and editorial work bring fresh insight to one of Ruskin’s most significant works. Thrilled to see it reach new readers.

23.02.2026 17:20 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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“Unabridged new editions of any major #Ruskin book are rare ... but The Stones of Venice ... is that and more.”

The @ruskinsociety.bsky.social has awarded its 2025 Book Prize to William C. McKeown’s edition of The Stones of Venice, which features a new introduction, editor's notes & writings.

23.02.2026 17:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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#Dementia care isn’t a set of skills to master. It’s a deeply human experience to endure and understand.

Surviving Dementia Care reimagines #caregiving through 4 clear modes: Describing, Understanding, Advocating, and Imagining.

Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/4qLu2a4

@dgcampbell26.bsky.social

20.02.2026 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0