@galbeckerman.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic, formerly NYTBR, and author of the forthcoming “How to Be a Dissident.”
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialIn 1912, the writer S. An-sky set out to record the songs and folktales of a Jewish civilization on the brink of destruction. Now the treasures he collected are under threat in wartime Kyiv, @galbeckerman.bsky.social reports.
@joeinaustralia.bsky.socialReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialWhat a superb article, what an astonishing essay on a miraculously preserved archive: the ethnographic records and other notes of S. An-sky, the maskil, the littérateur, the hyphenated Hebrew preserving a glimpse of a vanished world. Each time I thought it had peaked, it got better. And it's free!
@galbeckerman.bsky.socialJust a piece of further context for this story...on September 29, Ukraine's Academy of Sciences building, which is just a block away from where this archive is housed, was hit by Russian drones.
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialIn 1912, the writer S. An-sky set out to record the songs and folktales of a Jewish civilization on the brink of destruction. Now the treasures he collected are under threat in wartime Kyiv, @galbeckerman.bsky.social reports.
@galbeckerman.bsky.socialI learned of an expedition in the 1910s that recorded the songs and stories and folklore of the shtetl world. Earlier this year, I went to Ukraine to look for what remains of it. This, in
@theatlantic.com's November issue, was a special one for me.
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialIn 1912, the writer S. An-sky set out to record the songs and folktales of a Jewish civilization on the brink of destruction. Now the treasures he collected are under threat in wartime Kyiv, @galbeckerman.bsky.social reports.
@dedependance.euReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialThank you for joining us last Tuesday for our talk on ‘How to Be a Dissident’ with @galbeckerman.bsky.social and Núria Ribas Costa!
@galbeckerman.bsky.socialHere you go: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialThree years after the Hamas attack, the Israeli show “Fauda” revisits October 7 in episodes that are difficult to watch but worth the effort, Gal Beckerman writes.
@dedependance.euReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialIs there a right way to rebel? How do we push back when extreme views are becoming commonplace?
Tomorrow, journalist and The Atlantic staff writer @galbeckerman.bsky.social, will attempt to answer these question in @arminiusdebat.bsky.social.
👉 Final tickets: dedependance.eu/events/how-t...
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialNAZA, a provocative Israeli documentary, should make viewers think about their own moral parameters—instead, it distances them from the war in Gaza, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes.
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialAt The Atlantic Festival, @galbeckerman.bsky.social spoke with the translator Emily Wilson about the pleasures and blind spots of translation, and the backlash to her review of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey.”
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialAt The Atlantic Festival, @galbeckerman.bsky.social spoke with the translator Emily Wilson about the pleasures and blind spots of translation, and the backlash to her review of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey.”
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialPlay today’s Rabbithole, which begins with this question from @galbeckerman.bsky.social’s article on presidential self-reflection. theatln.tc/hUtzCnw1
@galbeckerman.bsky.socialSending my regards to your dissident! 😼
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialTrump’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the dangers that the AI mirror presents to all of us, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues.
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialFrancis Fukuyama wants you to know that he was never a naive triumphalist, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes. Beckerman on Fukuyama’s new memoir and why the end of history is so miserable:
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialFrancis Fukuyama wants you to know that he was never a naive triumphalist, @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes. Beckerman on Fukuyama’s new memoir and why the end of history is so miserable:
@theatlantic.comReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.socialMany tech billionaires who grew up on science fiction are intent on building dystopian technology, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues. He writes about a new book by Jill Lepore that explores how they took the wrong lessons from their favorite novels:
@jenduende.bsky.socialReposted by @galbeckerman.bsky.social"What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be": @galbeckerman.bsky.social on the new Jill Lepore book and the teen-boy mind-set driving the takeover of ... everything: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
