Jacob Morrow-Spitzer

History PhD candidate @Yale studying Jews, government, race and citizenship. Maine grown, southern influenced. Formerly @TulaneHistory. he/him

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New article out in American Jewish History!
“The "Theoretical Jew" Versus the "Southern Jew": Black Perceptions of Jewish Whiteness in the Nineteenth-Century American South”
https://t.co/Mg8DFxprA1

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Even at the dawn of the Nazi Regime, as he laments that “The Hitlerists” are restricting Jews from becoming “authentic Germans,” he sees the trajectory of Blackness in America as something much different. More about the translation in my accompanying essay https://t.co/Ne5vSGRHyv

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As good a time as any to share a Yiddish translation just published, “Vos I. I. Zinger Hot Gezen in Di Neger Kabareys in Harlem” (“What IJ Singer Saw in the Black Cabarets in Harlem”). A somewhat unnerving reportage from 1932 about Black life in America.
https://t.co/8z90uhNZQr

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Singer, most known for his literature (and the brother of the famed Isaac Bashevis Singer), drew from his preconceptions of Blackness to describe an essentialized portrait of modern Black culture. He offers a highly telling perspective from a short-term eastern European visitor.

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We are incredibly excited to introduce the incoming cohort of fellows for the 2024-25 academic year!

CJH is proud to provide a platform where these emerging scholars can thrive, contributing significantly to our understanding of Jewish history & its ongoing impact on the world.

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The campaign to depose university presidents is also an effort to distract people from this

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Yesterday, Local 33 Bargaining Committee Member Arita Acharya got to sit down with @POTUS and @SenSanders to talk about organizing our union for graduate workers at @Yale. POTUS is right, we are building the economy of the future, and it will be union!

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@Jacob_Labendz @Liquid_Riot My favorite hometown spot!

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@vanessahistory @yale_history Woah how do we order?!

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@davidson_dylan Somehow still constantly fight the urge not to write them though??

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The New York Times horribly misdiagnosed the south Williamsburg section of the marathon in their preview article yesterday, just saying

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No spoilers, but the @MSJE_NOLA “Mayors Map” will certainly make an appearance

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Up this weekend: the annual Southern Jewish Historical Society conference in Charleston, SC, where I’ll be addressing how Jewish political engagement existed alongside—and contributed to—broader ideologies of the post-Civil War American state

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@sashkaz26 Of course, the health of people’s teeth has historically been something the American government is very concerned with

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Biden now needs to cancel the £12.50 I owe to the University of Cambridge ultimate frisbee team, a debt I am remarkably still getting pestered about since my study abroad semester there in 2016

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@daveweinfeld @UNCJewishStdies Looks fascinating!

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@sueclaireswag Prob not exactly what you’re looking for and definitely subjective but I like this map when traveling to major cities, gives you an idea of neighborhoods https://t.co/D3TvB1rWFF

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@lerner_davis they should compliment these rule changes with codifying the unwritten rules

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@lerner_davis rule changes brought to you by the founders of LIV

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@ClementsAustinJ The non-objectivity of history strikes again!

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@ClementsAustinJ I think it's fair to place this, at least in part, on the fact that it is a field written almost entirely by secular American Jews, a group which historically has a deep personal interest in downplaying American antisemitism