Publications
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25 Jul 2025 • Journal Article • Comparative Politics
Recasting the Meaning of Elections: Three Strikes for the Mandate Interpretation in Europe
AbstractHow are we to interpret the rising popularity of right-wing populist and outright authoritarian parties in European democracies? Commonly, elections are seen as handing a mandate to their winners. So, are such forces increasingly receiving a mandate from voters to carry out their policies? This article reviews three recent books (Authoritarianism and the Evolution of
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16 Jul 2025 • Journal Article • Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Theorizing Hebrew typeface design: Rafael Frank and Josef Kaplan’s modernization of meruba letterforms, 1908–1916
AbstractSquare Hebrew typefaces had seen little development since the introduction of movable types in Europe. In the early 1900s, driven by the emergence of secular Hebrew culture, Rafael Frank and Josef Kaplan made significant contributions to the discourse and practice of Hebrew typeface design. Although neither were formally trained as type designers, they advocated for
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3 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Organization Studies
Institutional stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding
AbstractGovernment-led assaults on academic freedom are experienced worldwide: in Turkey with President Erdogan's appointment of pro-regime university rectors based on the 2016 statutory decree that abolished rector elections and authorized the president to make such appointments; in Hungary with President Orban's attack on academia famously resulting in the 2018 relocation of
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2 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Minerva
Professionalizing the Professional Bureaucracy: On Training and Expertise for Leadership Positions in Universities
AbstractHenry Mintzberg's seminal work (Management Science 26(3):322-341, 1980) defined "professional bureaucracy" in organizations, highlighting its reliance on the expertise of the profession intrinsic to its operations, such as the professoriate in universities. However, the pervasive influence of managerialism has increasingly infiltrated university governance, challenging
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17 May 2025 • Journal Article • Annals of Tourism Research
Measuring reactions to congestion in the digital era
AbstractCities are experiencing accelerated growth in visitor numbers to the point of overcrowding, raising concerns about negative effects on both destinations and residents. Academic discourse on overtourism primarily addresses environmental damage, infrastructure overload, and resident dissatisfaction, often overlooking how tourists experience overcrowding. When examined
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4 May 2025 • Journal Article • Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
Whither the “Special Relationship”? Israeli–German Relations in the Shadow of October 7 and the War in Iran
AbstractIn calmer times, there might have been a surfeit of laudatory speeches, mutual visits, and conferences marking the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany in May 2025.Footnote1 Not that it would have aroused much interest from the media in either country (although these things always get more attention in Germany)
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3 May 2025 • Journal Article • The Journal of North African Studies
Anti-Semitism, class resentment, and everyday violence in colonial Constantine under Vichy rule
AbstractOn the eve of the Second World War, working-class Jews, Muslims, and Europeans in colonial Constantine shared the same social space and interacted with each other every day. The establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940, and the implementation in Algeria of Vichy’s anti-Semitic laws, disrupted these social dynamics and produced new social desires and anxieties. Some
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18 Apr 2025 • Journal Article • Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Framing Contagious Images: The Formation of Early Holocaust Memory through Migrating Film Footage from the Nazi Era
AbstractThis article examines how Nazi-era film footage shaped Holocaust memory in post-war German film documentaries. From the mid-1950s, filmmakers began using previously unreleased archival footage to document the persecution of European Jews, a subject that had been largely suppressed until then. These films often relied on unpublished records from propaganda units, soldiers
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1 Apr 2025 • Journal Article • Research in Film and History
A Living Document: Unpacking the Memory of Reinhard Wiener’s Private Film from Liepaja (1941)
AbstractIn early February 1979, Reinhard Wiener, a government secretary at the Ministry of the Interior in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, wrote a letter to the German Federal Archives regarding a private film, which he had shot during his time as a naval soldier in the Latvian coastal city of Liepaja (German: Libau), where he was stationed from 1941 to 1942 in
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1 Apr 2025 • Journal Article • Research in Film and History
Editorial: Iconic Film Footage from the Nazi Era
AbstractIconic Film Footage from the Nazi Era: Context and Circulation In recent years, both film studies and contemporary history including memory studies have increasingly recognized that films are not only sources of history, but are also instrumental in shaping our idea of the past. However, research of historical films that reflects on the films themselves as well as on
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