“‘Bourgeoisie’ instead of ‘state’ or ‘nation’ center here – old Marxist scheme.” This taut finger-wag of an annotation was written by George L. Mosse, like countless other comments, underlinings, and arrows—all preserved in the books …
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Abigail Lewis: Jews behind the Camera, 1850-1950
Michael Berkowitz, Jews and Photography in Britain (Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin Press, 2015). Fans of the Netflix show, The Crown (2016-present), may recognize the presence of photography in the show’s presentation of …
Abigail Lewis: Teaching European History through Pictures
With support from the George L. Mosse Program in History, I had the privilege of lecturing a history course entitled “Picturing History.” The lectureship allows for graduate students to craft a lecture course completely of …
Robert Mueller-Stahl: Writing on Ruptures – Mosse’s German Jews Beyond Judaism
Reading Mosse’s German Jews beyond Judaism as an Introduction to German Jewish Intellectuals of the Weimar Republic – and beyond Leaving a small, overflowing exhibition on the past and present of film and photography in …
Jen Gramer: Marrus’s Some Measure of Justice- What Do We Want from Reparations?
Michael R. Marrus, Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) Nearly four years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man in the #MeToo Moment
George Mosse concludes The Image of Man with a relatively brief reflection on the fortunes of the masculine stereotype since 1945. It is the shortest chapter of the book, by an odd kind of necessity: …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Fluid Masculinities
The discipline of History is highly concerned with change over time. Though there are certainly examples of long-term stability in the past – farming practices, economic structures, family dynamics, etc. – historians usually look for …
National Jewish Book Awards Received by Two Mosse Visiting Professors
Congratulations to Professor Gideon Reuveni (George L. Mosse, Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2004) and Professor Chad Alan Goldberg (George L. Mosse Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, 2008). Their recent publications have been recognized by the …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Invisible History
George Mosse’s Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity traces the creation, maturation, and various erosions or perversions of the dominant Western ideal of manhood across the 19th and 20th centuries. This modern ideal, …
Javier Samper Vendrell: Review of Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man
Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Alessio Ponzio Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 316 pp. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a valuable contribution to the …