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Alexandra Ell

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Queues of Gold: Crisis and the Practice of Belonging

Queues of Gold: Crisis and the Practice of Belonging

Earlier this week, I spoke with someone I had known in another lifetime, back when I lived in South Korea. We have not met for two decades, yet across...

12.03.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexandra Ell

Shoes on the Danube Bank: Where the Dead Have No Graves

“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.” The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me...

04.03.2026 50

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Alexandra Ell

Selling Sesame Seeds in Samarkand: A Cultural Grammar of “What If”

Some sentences look simple but smuggle in whole philosophies of life. Take what linguists call a counterfactual conditional: a sentence that talks...

25.02.2026 50

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Alexandra Ell

Holocaust Distortion in the Examination Room: Auschwitz as a Diet Trope

Holocaust distortion rarely announces itself with the bluntness of denial; more often it appears in the form of casual statements, recycled clichés,...

20.02.2026 50

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Alexandra Ell

A Culinary Memory: Kindli and the Remains of the Remains

With the arrival of Adar and Purim drawing near, kitchens across the Jewish world begin to fill with Hamantaschen. In this corner of Central Europe,...

18.02.2026 70

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Alexandra Ell

Aspirin for Amnesia in Austria

14.12.2025 80

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Alexandra Ell

A Culinary Memory: Flódni and What Remains

12.12.2025 30

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Alexandra Ell

Queueing for Auschwitz

10.12.2025 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexandra Ell