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 …
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Chad Gibbs: H.G. Adler by Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much in common, though their legacies diverge in …
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: Dan Hummel’s “Covenant Brothers”
Daniel G. Hummel, Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).* Jewish and Christian Zionists each lay claim to a special covenant with God. But the two groups have managed to …
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
Othmar Plöckinger: Okay. I may sit here. Or should I stand up, I think that in the background Skye Doney: You’re fine. Plöckinger: You’re fine with that? Okay. Thank you. So, first of all, I’d …
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). Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson eds. Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford: Stanford University …
New Book: Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren
Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019). This book surveys Zionist attitudes towards Asia and the Eastern world, concentrating on various ‘pan-Eastern’ …
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 …