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Program Announcements:
The George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange is cancelled for the 2021-2022 academic year.
New Mosse First Book Prize Honors Work of George L. Mosse
- Proposals accepted between January 15 – March 15, 2021
- Winning author will receive a $5,000.00 prize and will be published in the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
A new Japanese translation of The Nationalization of the Masses goes on sale on 9 January 2021. We will post a translation of Professor Satō’s introduction to the Mosse blog.
The first two volumes in the Collected Works of George L. Mosse are now available for purchase: Nationalism & Sexuality and Toward the Final Solution. Pick up copies today!
In August the Mosse Program and UW-Madison History Department co-sponsored the online conference “Social Justice Remade? The Decline of the European Welfare State in a Global Context, 1973-2009,” organized by Giuliana Chamedes and Matthew Sohm. The conference proceedings are now available on the Mosse Program YouTube channel:
New on the Mosse Blog:
- Read Spencer J. Weinreich’s review of Tamar Herzig‘s A Convert’s Tale.
- Read Eric Kurlander’s review of Anson Rabinbach‘s Staging the Third Reich.
- Read Matthew Unangst’s review of Marie Muschalek‘s Violence as Usual.
- Read Sunny Yudkoff’s post “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop.”
- Learn more about a new Mosse comic, “Ideas Can be Weapons.”
- Read Maria Mitchell’s review of Giuliana Chamedes’s A Twentieth Century Crusade.
New from the Mosseaner:
Congratulations Tamar Herzig on winning the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for the history of the Jewish diaspora for her new book A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Harvard, 2019).
Congratulations David Warren Sabean for receiving the AHA Award for Scholarly Distinction.
Read Sara Brinegar’s Holocaust Forced Labor teaching resource at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Read Abigail Lewis’s H-Diplo review of Lara R. Curtis, Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender (17 September 2020).
Read Chad Gibbs’s opinion piece “China is Perpetuating Genocide: We’ve Seen This Before,” in Forward (22 July 2020).
Read Ethan Katz’s and Deborah Lipstadt’s opinion piece “Far more unites Black and Jewish Americans than divides them,” on CNN (18 July 2020).
Read John D. Wilsey’s Christianity Today review of Daniel G. Hummel’s book Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
Read Walker Robins’s H-Net review of Daniel G. Hummel’s book Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
Read Steven Aschheim’s review of David G. Marwell’s Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death (W.W. Norton, 2020).
Read Arie Dubnov’s Ha’aretz article about the life of George Steiner: “What if Mossad Agents Had Caught Hitler in the Amazon Rain Forest?”
Read Mosse Exchange Fellow Abby Lewis’ review of Sara Blair’s new book How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images (Princeton University Press, 2018).
Listen to Professor David Sorkin discuss his new book, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Medaon put out an article by Dieter Langewiesche, “Bildungsliberalismus und deutsches Judentum. Historische Reflexionen auf den Spuren von George L. Mosse.”
Smithsonian Magazine published a long article on the Mosse Art Restitution project, “The Lost Maidens of Berlin.”
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