Daniel B Schwartz
@dbsva74
Followers
906
Following
1,968
Media
2
Statuses
1,420
Teaches Jewish history @GWtweets ; author of “Ghetto: The History of a Word” and “The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image.”
Washington, DC
Joined March 2013
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Vance
• 2396724 Tweets
Vance
• 2396724 Tweets
#VPDebate2024
• 332546 Tweets
Pence
• 136253 Tweets
Minnesota
• 134115 Tweets
Tampon Tim
• 96367 Tweets
Tiananmen Square
• 65895 Tweets
महात्मा गांधी
• 64225 Tweets
LINGLING MYCHERIE AMOUR EP4
• 62996 Tweets
からくりサーカス
• 61958 Tweets
गांधी जयंती
• 59758 Tweets
#原神KFCコラボ
• 57910 Tweets
लाल बहादुर शास्त्री
• 56557 Tweets
#GandhiJayanti
• 55539 Tweets
ケンタッキー
• 51354 Tweets
Obamacare
• 32481 Tweets
ニンテンドーミュージアム
• 28322 Tweets
リネット
• 26305 Tweets
Timmy
• 23926 Tweets
Vladimir
• 23703 Tweets
宮崎空港
• 17545 Tweets
ネットオーダー
• 17181 Tweets
原神コラボ
• 13907 Tweets
#LalBahadurShastri
• 11043 Tweets
@AJCCEO
@UMich
@SantaJOno
Nothing is going to change until universities begin to impose severe penalties on individual students who disrupt school events. You wanna sabotage the honors convocation? You’re gone for the semester and you ain’t getting your money back.
11
13
67
@BillKristol
Something broke in me last night when Graham gave his floor speech. To see someone get to the point where he now betrayed his very last principle--the very last--all in the raw pursuit of power is both sad and horrifying.
1
8
46
@TheKnicksWall
@shobasketball
That was a special year, and I loved Tyson, but he got manhandled by Hibbert in that series.
1
0
27
On Charlottesville, historical amnesia, and the limitations of the law as a vehicle for moral reckoning, by the inimitable
@Jbloeffler
. A must read.
0
5
28
The attacks on Prof. Derek Penslar by all the usual suspects is appalling. Derek is one of the most outstanding scholars of modern Jewish history and Israeli history--full stop. He is also as nuanced and fair-minded as they come and a real mensch to boot. Shame.
Pleased that Harvard created taskforce on antisemitism & had the vision to make Derek Penslar co-chair. No scholar of antisemitism & Israel is more knowledgeable, fair, or sophisticated. He's rigorous, speaks from evidence not ideology, and that's exactly what is needed.
20
39
222
1
6
26
@juliaioffe
I see this distinction as oversimplified. "Jewish power" looms large in both R and L antisem, e.g., the meme of Soros the rootless cosmo and puppeteer financing the "great replacement." The far right also sees itself as punching up, even if it also deems Jews racially inferior.
1
1
23
@ManhattanMingle
@nbcsnl
@BillAckman
@ShaiDavidai
The sad thing—I doubt you’d see any such skit on SNL in 2024.
1
0
17
@academic_la
I don't think what Saudi Arabia is saying publicly now is necessarily indicative of what they were saying to officials/envoys like Hochstein and McGurk beforehand. I'm also not convinced this is an absolute red line.
2
0
16
@TheStrickland
I'm underestimate no team--obviously Indy has a ton of offensive firepower and the Knicks have a rotation of 7--but play much better than they did in this series? Against a team that would have been the
#2
or
#3
seed had they stayed healthy and was favored? I'm quite satisfied.
0
0
12
@bradpomerance
How about an option of "it's complicated"? Asking as a professor of modern Jewish history at GW.
1
0
14
The Amsterdam Mahamad, calling the shots since 1656.
The Spinoza expert Yitzhak Melamed gets an official community apology for the unhinged rabbis' letter.
14
83
573
1
2
13
@samhaselby
I also had her my first year. She was formidable. I was probably more anxious about going to her office hours to discuss a paper than I’ve been with any other professor.
1
0
12
@votetimscott
You threaten nothing and nobody. I am far from radical left. I have no issue with your being a Black conservative. What I object to is the way you have placed your own political relevance (middling as it is) above integrity and decency. That’s it.
1
2
9
How America's ugly history of segregation changed the meaning of the word "ghetto"
0
6
9
@academic_la
Amen, Shaiel. Basically, it’s been your feed and podcast, the Rangers, and the Knicks. I have been a fan since ‘81 and I can tell you that I’ve never seen a Knicks team with this level of grit and dedication. Sadly, the bball gods just kept swatting us down. Hurts.
2
0
10
@BroadwayHatsNYR
Notice how even when Carolina got a lead they didn’t do that. They kept pushing as if they were down 1-0. Genuinely one of the most disappointing playoff games I’ve ever seen NYR play. And I’ve been watching since 1982.
0
0
9
@NYMhistory
One of most memorable series in Mets history. In all three games Mets came from behind to win, including in the middle game from a 7-1 deficit (the Niewenheis game). I was at the Monday and Tuesday games.
1
0
8
If you’ve held off on buying GHETTO, here’s your chance.
Rejoice in the gift of reading, and get 30% off all HUP books until December 31 using HOLIDAY21 at checkout. To assist your seasonal decision-making, take a look at our gift guide:
1
12
15
0
1
8
@zackbeauchamp
A very good piece, tho I do think there’s a generational component that you miss—why many Jewish boomers and GenX (like me) feel a kind of visceral connection to Israel even if we loathe its trajectory since late ‘00s.
1
0
8
@genymets
Look, do I think we're better than the Braves? No. But it's May 3, people. The Braves were a mediocre team thru June last year. When the Nats won the WS in 2019, they started out 19-31. The Mets have been severely undermanned to start the season. Just chill a bit. It's a marathon
6
0
8
@BigBlueVCR
I don’t think he’s ever gotten the recognition he deserves. His teams were inconsistent—no doubt. They never made the playoffs consecutive years. But they did have success, and in 1997 and 2000-2002 they were generally fun to watch. A good man too.
1
0
6
@academic_la
This is an essential point. We should not react to the antisemitic frenzy on the progressive left by thinking the Republican Party in its current form can be an asylum for us. We have to oppose the illiberalism on both sides.
0
0
6
Very grateful for this positive review of GHETTO by Francesca Bregoli in “Journal of Modern History”
0
0
6
One of the most thoughtful reviews of "Ghetto," by Amos Goldberg.
Ghetto: The History of a Word. By Daniel B. Schwartz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-0674737532.
1
1
6
You might have apologized too.
As evidenced by the most recent speaker controversy,
@Harvard
has a long, long way to go to provide sufficient protection to all of its Jewish students. The issues are deep, the problems pervasive and the anti-Zionism is extensive.
And so, I was pleased by my encouraging
0
9
47
1
0
5
Seems to me like the “gentiles” helped you out quite a bit a few weeks ago after Iran attacked—but keep biting the hand that feeds you. What. A. Disaster.
Giving the finger to Israel’s closest allies who rushed to its rescue following the calamity of Oct. 7, a thankless Netanyahu invokes this lesson on the eve of (the 🇮🇱) Holocaust Memorial Day: “If we don’t protect ourselves, no one will…We cannot trust the promises of gentiles.”
318
613
1K
0
3
6
@arash_tehran
I admire you and your writing a great deal. And I loathe Bibi. But you can’t launch an attack the magnitude of Sunday morning and expect that Israel is not going to retaliate. And from what we know thus far (big caveat), it doesn’t seem like they’ve tried to escalate
0
0
6
Book Review – Ghetto: The History of a Word, by Daniel B. Schwartz – Mapping Urban Form and Society
0
2
6
@SenatorBennet
@senatemajldr
I wish you would have gotten into the race earlier. Of all the candidates running, I think you’d make the best president.
2
3
5
Perfectly stated—by one of the leading scholars on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at work today.
I’m a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a longtime advocate for peace and for Palestinian rights. I have publicly opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and its blockade and now destruction of Gaza. I support the rights of students and faculty to peacefully
1K
2K
10K
0
0
6
@BroadwayHatsNYR
Amen. Don't let last night's score deceive you. Shesty still had to make many more high-difficulty saves. He's been amazing in every game. Honestly hard to think of a single weak goal he's given up.
0
0
6
0
3
4
@ClydeHaberman
Leonard Cohen actually went to Israel during the Yom Kippur War and visited and sang for soldiers in the Sinai. Check out Matti Friedman’s book about it “Who By Fire.”
1
0
5
Say what you want about the guy (and unlike the Squad, I happen to like him), he knows how to pronounce the fricative [x] in Hanukkah. And that counts for something.
A Jewish soul Berns in the heart of Vermont.
@SenSanders
shares heartfelt words tonight at
@ChabadVermont
's menorah lighting in Burlington Vermont.
18
48
239
0
1
5
@GardenFaithful
It’s time to sit Gus and Trouba. I could care less that he’s C. Ruhwedel looks much better than him. It would be a real shame if Lavi and the org put loyalty to vets above putting the best players out there.
0
0
5
La mia intervista con
@viviana_mazza
del
@Corriere
sulla storia della parola ghetto. Il mio libro sull’argumento appare in italiano con
@Hoepli_1870
questa settima.
Che cos’è oggi un ghetto? Su
@la_lettura
@corriere
intervisto lo storico Daniel Schwartz della
@gwuniversity
, autore di una storia del Ghetto
@hoeplieditore
0
5
8
0
1
4
@DovWaxman
Was Gantz in fact a moderating influence? I don’t doubt that he abhors Ben-Gvir et al and the s—t that’s been going on in the WB. But with respect to Gaza specifically? I feel this is more assumed than proven.
2
1
5
@eli_rosenblatt
Check out this new book “No Masters but God” about revolutionary religious anarchists. Contains chapter on, among others, Isaac Nahman Steinberg, probably the best known of the bunch, and Yehuda Meir Ashlag, who tried to reconcile Marxist and Kabbalistic thought.
1
1
5
@DaveyUpper
I just don’t see anything about Laf’s game that suggests he’s even a slowly developing star. He is not a particularly good skater, shooter (see: Monday nite), or puckhandler; his vision is OK, nothing more. By this point you tend to see flashes, even if inconsistently.
1
0
5
@jbf1755
What also galls me are the lies he tells and the total lack of pushback on the part of the interviewer. The House Democrats made every effect to make this a bipartisan committee, and there were Republicans who wanted to play ball, but when Trump balked, McC cut them at the knees.
0
0
5
Check out this launch event today for book for which I wrote about historiographic debates on the relationship between the concept of the “ghetto” and antisemitism.
What do we learn about antisemitism if we step back from measurement and instead focus on the language we use to define it? Happening today
@CJSUofT
, a launch event for a book in which I wrote about "Anti-Zionism."
1
2
17
1
0
5
Obscene.
George Washington University - students are projecting horrifying messages onto a school library building glorifying Hamas terrorists that beheaded babies, raped teenage girls, and murdered 1400+ people.
We call on President
@PresidentofGW
to immediately expel those involved.
4K
11K
31K
1
0
5
@emilykschrader
What is the name of this interviewer? Does anybody know? Kudos,
@emilykschrader
, for your poise, conviction, and clarity.
0
0
3
@GardenFaithful
Time to send him down and bring back Kinkaid. Will accept role as backup and probably not suck anywhere close to this much.
0
0
5
Thank you,
@BillKristol
Excellent piece on the 1st, very bad, and 2nd, pretty bad, statements by the Association of Jewish Studies.
“Whom did ‘violence’ victimize? Apparently no one specifically. In a statement by the Association of Jewish Studies Jews were nowhere to be found.”
11
37
48
0
0
5
@OhRyanMead
It’s over. The Bolts adjusted and the Rangers can’t score anymore. And I’d love for some reporter to have the guts to ask Strome tonight, “What the f—k is wrong with you?”
0
0
5
@academic_la
I’ll go back to Sean Connery’s epic advice to Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness in “The Untouchables” (1987): “Ya wanna know how to get Capone, I’ll tell ya how to get Capone. One of his pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the
1
1
5
@BigBlueVCR
@PhilSimmsQB
The 1989 Giants were really good. Not sure anyone could have stopped the Niners that year, but the Giants, I believe, would have been a much tougher out than either the Rams or the Broncos.
0
0
4
Thank you!
@SarahZarrow
@adam_shear
...The first bits of
@dbsva74
's book on the ghetto are great to teach. Adam Sutcliffe's review essay on Amsterdam and Jewish modernity is lovely
0
0
3
0
1
4
@AvivaKlompas
Yeah, that was a real smart war Israel chose to fight. And guess what? It was the REAGAN administration that stopped the flow of arms then. Or did you even know there was a war on 6/22/82?
0
0
3
That it’s become normal for prez admin staff to publicly but anonymously castigate the prez they work for—including when he has absolutely zilch to do with how uni admins deal w these protests—is yet 1 more way things are so effed up.
This is NOT what Democracy looks like.
If you have a problem with the Administration, QUIT. Then speak out.
8
8
68
0
0
4
@SegByDesign
Great thread, but strange that you never mention that, in late 19C/early 20C, this was the original Jewish immigrant "ghetto" that sociologists like Louis Wirth wrote about.
2
0
3
Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word - The Jewish Chronicle
2
3
3
@academic_la
Shaiel, we must meet someday--we share the same politics, the same historical interests, and most importantly the same sports loyalties!
1
0
4
@BigBlueVCR
I agree 100%. And frankly I think it would be good if Mara just stated publicly that both Schoen and Daboll will be back next year. Perhaps that will encourage Daboll to relax a bit and give more stuff a try.
0
0
3
@McCormickProf
Oh, that’s what you’re worried about? That he made this story up? What about the implications of what he said? Nothing?
0
0
4
@BillKristol
There is a vast center in this election to be seized. Biden should call the bluff of the far left and try his darnedest to speak to these voters. And then, if he wins, he can tell them to shove off entirely.
0
0
3
A genuine profile in courage.
1. I am not leaving anytime soon.
2. My Jewish family isn’t from Europe or the USA - they’re from Egypt and the former USSR and Israel became their safe haven from anti-Zionist persecution and afforded them opportunity and prosperity.
3. From Hamas.
2
15
67
0
0
4
Oh, well then. Thanks for clarifying. All good now.
0
0
4
Thank you
@Justemily84
for the shout out.
What are we
#reading
?
@Justemily84
recommends
@dbsva74
's new (2019) Ghetto: The History of a Word, one of her lockdown reads, thinking about how we use historical narratives to shape action and policy in the modern world.
#HelloWinch
#twitterstorians
#WinchHist
0
2
4
1
0
4
@Jacob_Labendz
This is such an outrage. I’m so disturbed and upset to hear this. I can only imagine how you feel.
1
0
4
Grateful for this fantastic double review of
@CheyetteBryan
's and my book on the history of the ghetto by
@WilliamPimlott
in
@ingeveb
.
@Harvard_Press
In this review essay, William Pimlott discusses Daniel B. Schwartz's Ghetto: The History of a Word and Bryan Cheyette's The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction.
1
6
19
0
1
3
@joshua_landis
It’s more complicated than you’re making it seem (probably deliberately)—Begin and his Herut party were actually proponents of a constitution in the early years of the state.
0
0
4
Some thoughts related to my forthcoming book “Ghetto: The History of a Word” with
@Harvard_Press
.
#ghetto
#twitterstorians
0
2
4
@robsatloff
@JoshKraushaar
@JoeBiden
He gave the Bernie people too much say in the staffing of his administration. I’m sure Bibi is a headache beyond words. But this is not only wrong strategically; it’s wrong politically. The progressives will not be allayed by this.
1
0
4
@zackbeauchamp
I also think many of us don’t want to be boxed into a “pro-Israel” camp—for some of the very reasons you mention—even while we feel this connection is our kishkes.
1
0
4
@KennethBaer
@jonallendc
@GlennKesslerWP
@repjimcooper
Isn’t raising the minimum wage a whole lot more popular than the BTU?
0
0
4
@BillKristol
He just doesn't get it. The coalition that got him over the finish line in 2020 will not hold this time around. He has to choose between the progressives and what I think is a pretty large pool of non-woke L to ctr R voters. IMO he's better off rolling the dice with the latter
0
0
3
@BigBlueVCR
@BrandonJacobs27
@KevinBoothe77
The ref himself basically admitted they'd gotten the call wrong. It was in one of the profiles of SB champions, where he was live-mic'd.
1
1
4
@emsilk10
@scaliger
@Harvard_Press
@HarvardUPLondon
I’ve been waiting to read this kind of book since I took Prof Grafton’s seminar on “Art, Science, and Magic in Renaissance Europe” back in Spring 1995!
0
0
3
@BigBlueVCR
For most of their history, the Giants have been identified (even when they were bad) with playing strong defense. If you came I’d age as I did on the Giants of the ‘80s, a game like Thursday night’s is especially painful.
0
0
3
Great opportunity to buy “Ghetto” at a substantial discount.
Don't forget you can still get 30% off all HUP books until the end of December.
Enter code HOLIDAY19 at check out:
0
3
7
0
0
3
Truth.
Why is there a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt? Two words: Jimmy Carter. Do I agree with everything he's said and done since? No. Still, history will remember him better than his contemporaries. I wish him peace in his final days.
10
13
138
0
0
2
@davidbstarr
@KevinLevin
I had her in my introductory historiography class my first year at Columbia. You’re right—she was terrifying. But years later, when I was giving a practice job talk, she said, “I’d hire you.” I thought that was quite the compliment coming from her.
0
0
3