Sunny Yudkoff’s recent monograph, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing, (Stanford University Press, 2018) presents a fresh study of the production of Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the first half of …
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Idit Ben Or: Landscapes of Money
During the year I spent in Madison as a Mosse fellow, I was lucky to have the opportunity to immerse myself in an area of research completely new to me—Environmental History. Although this is a …
Thomas Brodie: Review of Herzog’s Unlearning Eugenics
Thomas Brodie Reviews Dagmar Herzog, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe. The George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Recent decades have witnessed …
Claire Hitter: Listening to the Past- How Oral Histories Keep Legacies Alive
From June to December 2018, I worked on a project at the Wisconsin Historical Society that brought history to life. I worked with my fellow George L. Mosse undergraduate intern Piper-Brown Kingsley to create abstracts …
Piper Brown-Kingsley: Learning the Importance of Personal Histories
Over the past five months, Claire Hitter (George L. Mosse Program Undergraduate Intern) and I have listened to, transcribed, and indexed one hundred different interviews from past and present, members of the Wisconsin Jewish community. …
Philipp Stelzel: The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
Philipp Stelzel, History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George L. Mosse’s—with suspicion, as they believed them to …
Chad Gibbs: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit
Eva Noack-Mosse’s Last Days of Theresienstadt: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit The recent release of Last Days of Theresienstadt posthumously fulfills its author’s long-held wish that her recollections of life inside Theresienstadt would …
Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven
Walter Laqueur, close friend of and long-time collaborator with George L. Mosse, died in Washington September 30, 2018, ninety-seven years of age. In 1966 Mosse and Laqueur co-founded the Journal of Contemporary History, apparently the …
Martina Cucchiara: Reflections on the Persecution of “Privileged” Jews in Nazi Germany
Eva Noack-Mosse, Last Days of Theresienstadt, trans. Skye Doney and Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). In October 1973, Eva Noack-Mosse wrote to her cousin George L. Mosse about her ongoing quest to …
Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault
Here are a few thoughts about the George L. Mosse’s annotations analyzed by Kilian Harrer and the response to Harrer’s remarks by Paul Breines. First, the annotation project itself is interesting and valuable. The study …