Publications

In progress/ under review:

• Chapter ‘History and the Paradoxes of Digitisation: A Global Perspective’ in: edited volume conference „Geschichte in der digitalen Gegenwart Geschichtsverständnisse zwischen ‚Postfaktizität’ und neuen Evidenzen” (2025). In progress.
• Chapter ‘Data in History’ in: Pim Huijnen ed., Engaging with Big and Small Historical Data (forthcoming, Routledge). In progress.
• Chapter ‘Silencing History Online’ in: De Baets, Antoon ed., The Palgrave Handbook of Attacks on History (forthcoming, Palgrave). In progress.
• Chapter ‘Help, Betrayal and the Importance of Networks – Jews in Hiding in the Netherlands and the Case of Anne Frank’ (in edited volume on the Anne Frank diaries, Cambridge University Press, 2024/2025). Under review.

Books & edited volumes

• Handbook of Digital Public History (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022). Co-edited with Serge Noiret and Mark Tebeau.
• Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022). Co-edited with Amalia Levi, Michelle Margolis, Miriam Rürup and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra.
• Integrating Digital Humanities, inaugural issue of DH Benelux journal (2019). Co-edited with Julie Birkholz.
• Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (London; Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
• Digital History, special issue BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 128/4 (2013). Editor.
• Life and Work of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (CD-ROM; University of Groningen, 1998). Editor (in Dutch).
• The Folkinge Street. History of the Jewish community in Groningen (Groningen; Egbert Forsten, 1996). Co-edited with Lies Ast-Boiten (in Dutch).

Articles & book chapters

• Facing the History Machine: Toward Histories of Digital History, History of Humanities 9/2 (2024) 451-491.
• ‘Between Online and Offline: Doing Archival Research in the Digital Age’, ARCHIV. theorie & praxis 77/1 (2024) 16-19. PDF.
• Digital History and the Politics of Digitisation, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38/2 (2023) 830–851.
• ‘Introduction’ in: Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022). Co-authored with Michelle Margolis, Amalia Levi, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra and Miriam Rürup.
• ‘Introduction’ in: Handbook of Digital Public History (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022) 1-15. Co-authored with Serge Noiret and Mark Tebeau.
• ‘Content Management’ in: Handbook of Digital Public History (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022) 433-439.
• Introduction: Integrating Digital Humanities, Inaugural issue of DH Benelux journal (September 2019). Co-authored with Julie Birkholz.
• The ‘Jewish Freedom Fighter’. The legacy of Naftali Botwin and the construction of a transnational cult of Jewish heroes, Clara Royer and Eszter Balasz eds., The Cult of Heroes in Central Europe (1880-1945) – Transnational and Interdisciplinary Aspects (Paris: Eur’Orbem Éditions, 2019).
• #DHJewish – Jewish Studies in the digital age, Medaon 23 (2018).
• ‘Jewish responses to anti-Semitism in Paris and London in the late 1930s as European Jewish political history’ in: Frank Bajohr and Dieter Pohl eds., Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935-1941 (Göttingen; Wallstein-Verlag, 2018) 95-113.
• ‘Digital Resources and Tools in Historical Research. Picture archives and the emergence of visual history of education. ISCHE 40 pre-conference workshop. 3rd workshop “Pictura Paedagogica Online: educational knowledge in images” (Berlin, 2018). Co-authored with Lars Wieneke.
• On Digital History, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 128/4 (2013) 3-29.
• ‘Using Digital Sources in Historical Research. Jewish History on the Internet’ in: Frédéric Clavert and Serge Noiret eds., Contemporary history in the digital age (Oxford; Peter Lang, 2013) 201-213.
• ‘Propaganda or fighting the myth of pakhdones? Naye Prese, the Popular Front, and the Spanish Civil War’ in: Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren and Hannah Pressman eds., Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Detroit; Wayne State University Press, 2012) 87-103.
• Public history beyond the state: Presenting the Yiddish past in contemporary Europe, Memoria e Ricerca 37 (2011) 37, 129-142.
• Die Botwin Kompagnie in: Dan Diner ed., Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur (Stuttgart; Metzler Verlag, 2011) 392-397.
• ‘Transnational networks of Jewish migrant radicals - The case of Berlin’ in: Verena Dohrn and Gertrud Pickhan eds., Transit und Transformation: Osteuropäisch-Jüdische Migranten in Berlin 1918-1939 (Göttingen; Wallstein Verlag, 2010) 218-233.
• ‘The Local and the International - Jewish Communists in Paris Between the Wars’, Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 8 (2009) 345-363.
• Yiddish in Historical Research: Some Reflections, European Judaism 42 (2009) 19-23.
• ‘Red Devils’: The Botwin company in the Spanish Civil War, East European Jewish Affairs 33 (2003) 83-99.
• The klezmorim of Prague. About a Jewish musicians guild, East European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 7 (2000) 41-48.

Miscellaneous writings

• Digitising History From a Global Perspective; And What This Tells Us About Access and Inequality, Part 5 of Royal Historical Society blog series Historical Research in the Digital Age (22 February 2023).

Reviews & conference reports

• Review: J. Lustig, A Time to Gather. Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 18.8.2023.
• Review: Gildea & Tames eds., Fighters acrossfrontiers. Transnational resistance in Europe, 1936–48, in Francia-Recensio 2022/2.
• Review: A. Crymble: Technology and the Historian (Urbana 2021), in: H-Soz-Kult 16.09.2021.
• Review: Mapping Modern Jewish Cultures, Reviews in Digital Humanities, “Jewish Digital Humanities” Special Issue 2/1 (January 2021).
• Tagungsbericht jüdische Geschichte digital, 13.06.2013-14.06.2013, Hamburg, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 10.09.2013.
• Review of Kobrin, Rebecca, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. May, 2011.
• Review of Berg, Hetty, Wallet, Bart (eds_.), Wie niet weg is, is gezien. Joods Nederland na 1945_ (Zwolle: Waanders, 2010) in: BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 126/3 (2011) 146-148.
• Review of Thomas Rütten, Geschichten vom Hippokratischen Eid (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007) in: Studium 1 (2008) 301-302.

Interviews

As part of the 2019-2021 Lecture series New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities:

• 30-01-2019. Interview with Prof. Dr Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow).
• 29-05-2019. Interview with Prof. Dr Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex).
• 26-06-2019. Interview with Prof. Dr David Bodenhamer (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis).
• 18-09-2019. Interview with Prof. Dr Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London).
• 06-11-2019. Interview with Prof. Dr Steven E. Jones (University of South Florida).
• 27-11-2019. Interview with Dr. Melvin Wevers (University of Amsterdam).
• 04-03-2021. Interview with Dr. Smiljana Antonijević (Illinois Institute of Technology - Institute of Design).

Datasets

• Yiddish Periodicals in Germany v1.

Websites

• [as developer/co-editor] #DHJEwish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities portal.
• [as developer] Historici.nl (version 2011-2013).
• [as developer/co-editor since 2008-2021] European History Primary Sources (discontinued, link to Wayback Machine archive).
• [as developer/editor since 2005] Yiddish Sources (discontinued, link to Wayback Machine archive).