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Dr Jaime Ashworth
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Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · Jul 11
A small announcement: if you feel that my blog posts and contributions have made a difference to your thinking, please consider Buying Me a Coffee via the link. Expertise doesn’t come for free! framingthequestion.blog/2025/07/11/t...
The Price of Memory
What’s passion worth? Image: one of the many coffees that have contributed to my productivity. Reconciling passion and productivity is a challenge. My wife will tell you that I don’t ta…
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 14h
Sounds like their hands are full.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 1d
It’s *so* good. The Guardian review of S3 was so unfair!
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t think it’s that scientific, but who knows?
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 1d
One suspects it’s of greater concern to their imagined reader.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
Yup… framingthequestion.blog/2020/08/20/b...
Between the Peak and the Abyss: Conspiracy and Superstition
Albert Camus wrote The Plague in 1947, as an allegory of French society under German occupation. Reading from 2020, however, it also describes with some accuracy the social impact of an actual epid…
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
This is the Jewish eschatology, isn’t it? When the ancestors get to have a go as well, and you can’t argue because it’s Pesach.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
The return of the hostages is beyond wonderful news. If they are all home, and no bombs fall tonight, that is all that matters for now.
Yellow ribbons hang from a fence in North London.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
I can totally see this: except fundamentally Gonzo is Gatsby and Kermit is Nick… (I don’t the casting of Daisy has much suspense.)
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
One hopes by rolling his eyes at the attempted humour.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d
Different citation style required
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 3d
“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

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Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group
RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 4d
Just finished. Phew. A worthy ending to a trilogy I started in autumn 2023…
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 4d
I really hope you’re right. You should be.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 4d
#ShabbatShalom one and all. Please let the negotiations be fruitful. Homemade challah made in hope…
Two challot, shining and fresh from the oven.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d
The last sentence is true in so, so many ways…
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 5d
Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?
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Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 6d
El-Fasher, Sudan — besieged by the RSF since May 2024 — has become “an open-air morgue” for starving civilians. The world’s silence is shocking. Since 2023 Sudan has seen 150k civilians killed, 15 million displaced & 25 million people facing acute hunger www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say
The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 6d
If the reports are true that Hamas are releasing the remaining living hostages, that is good news. But that’s just the beginning of a peace.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 6d
Well let’s stop using AI then. I have a feeling that the corporations involved are used to making hard decisions for *other people*…
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 6d
I always think of the party conference in David Hare’s ”The Absence of War”: one character hears the fanfare and says “I didn’t know Hitler composed”…
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 6d
They are unable to conceive of things having a value other than monetary, and they are oblivious to what goes into the culture they consume. The sense of communing with someone else’s creativity appears to be totally alien to them.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 7d
Absolutely. I’m also concerned, though, that if the security is provided by the private sector we are going to sell the past to corporations.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 7d
Share widely, especially with US Federal employees.
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Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social · 7d
OMB has deleted the reference on its website to the 2019 law that mandates back pay to all federal workers who were not paid during a government shutdown. This is like when babies play hide and seek but only cover their eyes because if they can’t see you, you can’t see them.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 7d
Yes. framingthequestion.blog/2025/07/13/c...
Cracked Mirror: Holocaust Unconsciousness
My post the other week about the use of AI to generate images purportedly of the Holocaust has had quite a lot of attention. Some of this has been derived from my posting a link alongside critiques…
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 7d
Arguing with the Tories over their "we're going to make a British ICE gestapo and deport 150,000 people a year" plan over the cost and practicalities is a bit weak.

Shout it down for the immorality not the "you'll have to increase VAT to pay for the barbed wire" bullshit
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 7d
It is so important to acknowledge that some of those most directly involved in 7 October are some of the most reluctant to endorse its consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz
So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic
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