As many of you may already know, attacks on scholars of the Holocaust are on the rise in Poland. The following is our Editorial Board's letter of support for Dr. Barbara Engelking and Dr. Jan Grabowski, along with all of their colleagues in Poland.
https://newfascismsyllabus.com/news-and-announcements/letter-of-support-for-scholars-in-poland/

In our latest weblog post, Dr. Jennifer Evans' students at Carleton University, in their FightingFascistFantasy project, explore the relationship between J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Italy's neo-fascist youth groups during the Cold War decades.
https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/under-graduate-perspectives/how-frodo-baggins-resurrected-italys-far-right-movement/

In the first contribution to our ongoing “(Under)Graduate Perspectives” series, Dylan Du (undergraduate in History/Psychology
at UCLA), explores the historiographical debates among scholars of Fascism/Nazism regarding the question of "totalitarian" power.

If you would like to have one of your students’ essays featured in this series, please get in touch with our weblog editors via our “Contact” section.
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https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/under-graduate-perspectives/the-illusion-of-control-a-historiographical-essay-on-the-capabilities-and-limits-of-fascist-authority/

In the latest installment in our ongoing "Focus Israel" series, Mikhal Dekel explores the tensions between religious traditionalism and liberal secularism in contemporary Israel.
https://newfascismsyllabus.com/opinions/focus-israel/the-messiahs-donkey/

In today's entry, Tel Aviv University's Amal Jamal explores the social and political backdrop to the judicial crisis unfolding in Israel.

URL: http://newfascismsyllabus.com/opinions/focus-israel/the-social-roots-of-israels-judicial-and-political-crisis/

Tags: #Israel #Netanyahu #Palestine #Zionism

Michael Brenner on the changing demographics in Israel which helped bring the Netanyahu government into being. Republished from the Conversation in our series Focus Israel.

URL: http://newfascismsyllabus.com/opinions/focus-israel/israels-new-hard-line-government-has-made-headlines-the-bigger-demographic-changes-that-caused-it-not-so-much/

Tags: #Israel #Netanyahu #Palestine #Zionism

We over at the New Fascism Syllabus have begun a new series on the current crisis in Israel. The latest entry is just out, by Omer Bartov.

In the coming weeks, there will be pieces by Derek Penslar, Mikhal Dekel, Amos Goldberg, Alon Confino, Amal Jamal, Diaa Alserawi, and others.

URL: http://newfascismsyllabus.com/opinions/jewish-and-democratic-the-boomerang-effect/

Thank you in particular to Sophie Wunderlich (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan) for leading this important project.

We are pleased to announce that we have created a searchable database featuring hundreds of digitized archival collections on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing populist movements and dictatorships during the 20th and 21st centuries. We hope that this project will serve as a useful research tool for our community.

URL: https://newfascismsyllabus.com/nfs-research-database/

Tags: #FarRight #Fascism #Holocaust #Nazism #WWII

Occasionally, we will feature new publications on themes related to the New Fascism Syllabus. In our latest weblog post, Lucie Fremlova provides the first detailed study of queer Roma, who continue to face discrimination both under authoritarian and liberal regimes.

URL: https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/queer-roma/

Tags: #History #Histodons #Homophobia #Queer #Roma #Romani #Sexuality

In this latest addition to the NFS' weblog, Ferenc Laczo aims to provincialize German memory culture in order to forge a place for Hungary and Eastern Europe in the memorialization of 20th century crimes and their aftermath.

URL: https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/ignore-and-reassign-examining-germanys-memory-culture-in-hungarys-dark-mirror/

Tags: #Fascism #Holocaust #Hungary #Orban #WWII

Hello #Histodons community!

This is the official #Fediverse account for the New Fascism Syllabus (NFS).

In case you aren't already familiar with our project, the NFS is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly resources on the history of fascist, populist, and authoritarian movements and governments.

If you're interested, check out our website to keep up-to-date on all of our scholarly activities: https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com.

#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Histodons #History #NeoFascism #Populism