Publications

Under review/forthcoming:

• Article Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History (History of Humanities). Forthcoming.
• Chapter Help, Betrayal and the Importance of Networks – Jews in Hiding in the Netherlands and the Case of Anne Frank (in edited volume to be published with new critical edition of 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: Towards Histories of Digital History, forthcoming in History of Humanities.
• ‘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).