David Sorkin. Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 528 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780691164946. We often think of Jewish emancipation as a linear, one-way process by which Jews across Europe …
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Oral History: John Rowe
Narrator: John Rowe Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 13 July 2021 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 1 hour, 18 minutes John Rowe biography: John W. Rowe is Chairman Emeritus of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, …
Oral History: Stanley Payne
Narrator: Stanley Payne Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 18 December 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 22 minutes Stanley Payne biography: Stanley G. Payne taught in five American universities, from 1968 to …
In Memoriam: Tyler Stovall (1954-2021)
Tyler Stovall, Mensch A tribute by Michael Berkowitz Tyler Stovall completed his PhD “The Urbanization of Bobigny, 1900-1939” with Harvey Goldberg in May 1984. Michael Berkowitz completed his PhD “‘Mind, Muscle, and Men’: The Imagination …
Oral History: David Warren Sabean
Narrator: David Warren Sabean Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 9 April 2013 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen (22 May 2013) Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 23 minutes David Warren Sabean biography: David Warren Sabean is Henry …
Oral History: Michael Kaplan
Narrator: Michael Kaplan Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 24, 25, 26 February 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 55 minutes, 40 seconds **To access the OHMS oral history page for …
Oral History: Patrick Hutton
Narrator: Patrick Hutton Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 27 January 2021 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Hutton biography: Patrick H. Hutton is professor of history emeritus at the University of …
Itamar Ben Ami, review of Adi Armon’s “Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America”
Adi Armon, Leo Strauss Between Weimar and America. Translated by Michelle Bubis. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Cloth $60.26. 235 PP. ISBN 9783030243890. Is there a Straussian Marxism? On Adi Armon’s Leo Strauss Between Weimar …
Oral History: Vicki Caron
Narrator: Vicki Caron Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 31 March 2017 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 38 minutes, 39 seconds Format: Audio Vicki Caron biography: Vicki Caron is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University. Prior to …
Oral History: Michael Berkowitz
Narrator: Michael Berkowitz Interviewer: John Tortorice Videographer: William Tishler Date: 7 November 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Matthew Greene, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes Michael Berkowitz …
Oral History: David Sorkin
Narrator: David Sorkin Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 November 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Length: 2 hours, 5 minutes David Sorkin Biography: David Sorkin studied with George L. Mosse as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. …
Oral History: Alison Klairmont Lingo
Narrator: Alison Klairmont Lingo Interviewer: Skye Doney, Kilian Harrer Date: 15 June 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 47 minutes Format: Audio Alison Klairmont Lingo biography: I encountered George L. Mosse when I was a …
Piotr Puchalski, review of “Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe”
Marsha Morton, Barbara Larson, eds. Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe. Ethnography, Anthropology, and Visual Culture, 1850-1930. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 288 PP. Cloth $115.00. ISBN 9781350182325. In the last couple of years, much …
Oral History: Robert Nye
Narrator: Robert Nye Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 May 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Total Time: 1 hour, 13 minutes Robert Nye biography: I …
David Harrisville, review of Moritz Föllmer’s “Culture in the Third Reich”
Moritz Föllmer. Culture in the Third Reich. Trans. Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 PP. Cloth $25.95. ISBN: 9780198814603. The birthplace of Beethoven and Goethe, Germany has long been seen by …
Oral History: Steven E. Aschheim
28 November 2014: 8 April 2014: Narrator: Steven E. Aschheim Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 April 2014, 28 November 2014 Transcribed: Pop Up Archive, Melissa Schultz Total Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (over two sessions) …
Oral History: Walter Mirisch
Narrator: Walter Mirisch (History, 1942) Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 21 April 2008 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 22 minutes, 43 seconds Format: Audio (1 file) John Tortorice’s April 2008 interview with Walter Mirisch was …
Emily Stewart Long, review of Adam Y. Stern’s “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy”
Adam Y. Stern. Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 320 PP. Cloth $75.00. ISBN: 9780812252873. “The Empty Tomb” Adam Y. Stern’s Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy offers a collection of vividly argued …
Oral History: Peter Abbott
Narrator: Peter Abbott Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 38 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Peter Abbott biography: Born May 4, 1947, to …
Oral History: Seymour Drescher
Narrator: Seymour Drescher Interviewer: Anita Hecht, Life History Services Videographer: Anita Hecht Date: 28 October 2010 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Editing: Charles Glen for Life History Services, LLC Kyle Jenkins, …
Oral History: Lucy Cooper
Narrator: Lucy Cooper Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 26 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Lucy Cooper Biography: I came out to …
Oral History: Rusty Borkin
Narrator: Rusty Borkin Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 29 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Rusty Borkin biography: Rusty graduated with a BA …
Athan Biss, review of Francine Hirsch’s “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg”
Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 560 PP. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 9780199377930. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World …
Oral History: Sidney Iwanter
Narrator: Sidney Iwanter Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 17 August 2017 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Sidney Iwanter biography: Sidney Iwanter, the …
Oral History: James Hilb
Narrator: James Hilb Interviewer: Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 8 March 2019 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop James Hilb biography: Jim Hilb graduated with a …