From October 2019 to March 2020 I had the opportunity to study and live in Jerusalem as a George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). At HUJI, I …
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Chad S.A. Gibbs: George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020
A Holocaust memoir in the form of a musical. A living witness. Historical connections to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. And hundreds of previously unknown primary sources left behind by survivors of Treblinka. These are …
Till van Rahden, “Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life”
Till van Rahden. Demokratie: Eine gefährdete Lebensform. Frankfurt: Campus, 2019. 196 PP. Cloth. 24.95€. ISBN: 9783593511344. 1) What Mood Are We In? Over the past fifteen years, we have moved from complacency and hubris to …
Digitizing 1914: Then Came Armageddon
In 2014 the George L. Mosse Program in History and UW-Madison’s Special Collections created an exhibition—1914: Then Came Armageddon—to commemorate the hundred year anniversary since the outbreak of World War I. Guest exhibit co-curators Skye …
Tom McLeish, review of James Ungureanu’s “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition”
James C. Ungureanu. Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019. 368 PP. Cloth. $50.00. ISBN: 9780822945819.Review of: James C. Ungureanu Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: …
Teresa Bergen: Lecture- What I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Listening to Interviews
Troy Reeves: Hello? Yes, I’m guessing you can hear me. Because I can hear myself well. Thank you. So, we’re going to start right at noon. But please feel free to get up, get snacks. …
Teresa Bergen: A Breakfast Talk- “For the Oral History Curious”
Skye Doney: Teresa Bergen joins us today from Portland. And she has just published a book. Can I— Bergen: Oh, yeah. Doney: Do you mind if we send this around? Bergen: No, go ahead. Doney: …
Meike Hoffmann: Lecture- The Mosse Art Research Initiative
The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI): A Beacon of International Provenance Research Thank you all for being here. And thank you especially to the Center for German and European Studies for making this talk possible. …
Amos Bitzan: COVID-19 in Jerusalem, March 18, 2020
I hope that in future posts I will be able to document many of my wonderful experiences in Jerusalem and at the Hebrew University this academic year. This first post, however, will focus on less …
Sarah Qidwai, Sayyid Ahmad Khan: A Familiar Figure in an Unfamiliar Historical Setting
As a historical figure, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) is frequently characterized as a leader of Muslim nationalism in India and a reformer of both Islam and education.[1] Throughout his life he established several educational …
David Milne: Lecture- Sigrid Schultz: Investigative Reporter who Predicted World War II
N.B. Please do not quote without the author’s permission. This is the transcript of a delivered lecture, not a finished paper or journal article. Skye Doney: I want to thank you all for coming …
Mendel Kranz, review of Adi Gordon’s “Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn”
Adi Gordon. Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017. 344 PP. Cloth. $95.00. ISBN: 9781512600872. It is surely no easy feat to write the intellectual biography of …
Claire Hitter: Memories of Memorial Union- The Preservation of Campus History at University Archives
This past spring and summer, my internship with the George L. Mosse Program in History took me to UW Madison’s very own University Archives housed at Steenbock Library. During my time in the warm and …
Nick O’Connell: The Fry Collection- Life in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
William F. “Jack” Fry was a University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor from 1952 to 1998. He also had an incredible passion for Italian history. Fry collected thousands of Italian manuscripts over the years and donated …
Chad Gibbs, review of Peter Filkins’s “H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds”
Peter Filkins. H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 424 PP. Cloth. $33.95. ISBN: 9780190222383. Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much …
Dan Hummel: Israel and Evangelicals in the News
Israel has been in the American news a lot recently. The sum of all of this coverage—from the Israeli government’s drama with members of “The Squad” to President Trump’s charges of disloyalty toward Jewish Democratic …
Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe
Conference Report: ‘Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality,’ June 6-9th, Berlin This post appeared first on H-German on 26 June 2019. For George L. Mosse, the historical and …
Kenny Kolander, review of Dan Hummel’s “Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations”
Daniel G. Hummel. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 352 PP. Cloth. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0812251401.* Jewish and Christian Zionists each lay claim to a special covenant with God. …
Nadine Zimmerli: Teaching German History Through Novels
Fifteen years ago, I started my academic career as a George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout graduate school, I pursued two career tracks—one oriented toward the professoriate, doing all …
Othmar Plöckinger: Lecture- Mein Kampf: An Infamous Book
Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf: eine kritische Edition. Eds. Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger, Roman Töppel, Edith Raim, et al. Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016. 1,966 PP. Cloth. 59.00€. ISBN: 9783981405231. Othmar Plöckinger: Okay. I may …
Two New Mosse Network Books: Aschheim and Dubnov/Robson
Steven E. Aschheim. Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 289 PP. Cloth. $24.99. ISBN: 9783110595451. Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. Partitions: A Transnational History …
New Book: Hanan Harif, “For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought”
Hanan Harif. For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019. 299 PP. Cloth. 85 ILS. ISBN: 9789652273604. This book surveys Zionist attitudes towards Asia and …
Philipp Stelzel: Lecture- The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
Skye Doney: So thank you all for being here on this very nice day. I, I know it’s a difficult choice, when the sun finally returns. So, Philipp Stelzel. He comes to us today from …
Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition
A critical edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin 2016. Edited by Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger and Roman Töppel, et al. The following is a shortened review essay by …
Kilian Harrer, review of Katie Jarvis’s “Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France”
Katie Jarvis. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 352 PP. Cloth. $51.00. ISBN: 9780190917111. No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is …