Review of: James C. Ungureanu Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019). Book Abstract: The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of …
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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N.B. Please do not quote without the author’s permission.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 on Gordon’s “Toward Nationalism’s End”
Adi Gordon, Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017). It is surely no easy feat to write the intellectual biography of someone whose work traversed as many …
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: 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 …
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: The French Revolution and the Contingencies of Citizenship- On Katie Jarvis’s Politics in the Marketplace
No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is a tricky notion, a site where legal categorizations, identities, and individual or familial strategies intermingle in myriad ways. Mosse lost his own primary citizenship …
Marina Zilbergerts: Review of Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital
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 …
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 …