Sunny Yudkoff. Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 256 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9781503605152. Sunny Yudkoff’s recent monograph, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern …
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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 Dagmar Herzog’s “Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe”
Dagmar Herzog. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. 184 PP. Cloth. $39.95. ISBN: 9780299319205. Recent decades have witnessed the growth of a large and sophisticated literature …
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. 248 PP. Cloth. $69.95. ISBN: 9780812250657. After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George …
Chad Gibbs, “Eva Noack-Mosse: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit”
Eva Noack-Mosse. Last Days of Theresienstadt. Trans. Skye Doney and Birutė Ciplijauskaitė. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. 200 PP. Cloth. $24.95. ISBN: 9780299319601. The recent release of Last Days of Theresienstadt posthumously fulfills its …
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 …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II
Following Kilian Harrer’s post, historian Paul Breines, one of Mosse’s PhD students, offers his insight into Mosse’s annotations and interpretations. In my first comment on Kilian Harrer’s blog post we saw how George L. Mosse read …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I
Following Kilian Harrer’s post, historian Paul Breines, one of Mosse’s PhD students, offers his insight into Mosse’s annotations and interpretations. Among the readers of Kilian Harrer’s “George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault,” will be those …
Kilian Harrer: George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault
“‘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 …
Abigail Lewis, review of Michael Berkowitz’s “Jews and Photography in Britain”
Michael Berkowitz. Jews and Photography in Britain. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press, 2015. 358 PP. Cloth. ISBN: 9781477305560. Fans of the Netflix show, The Crown (2016-present), may recognize the presence of photography in …
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. 184 PP. Cloth. $29.95. ISBN: 9780299234041. Nearly four years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The …
Jim Coons, George L. Mosse’s “Image of Man” in the #MeToo Moment
George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. George L. Mosse concludes The Image of Man with a relatively brief reflection …
Jim Coons, George L. Mosse’s “Image of Man”: Fluid Masculinities
George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. The discipline of History is highly concerned with change over time. Though there …
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, George L. Mosse’s “Image of Man”: Invisible History
George L. Mosse. Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240 PP. Cloth. $69.00. ISBN: 9780195126600. George L. Mosse’s Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity traces the …
Javier Samper Vendrell, review of Alessio Ponzio’s “Shaping the New Man”
Alessio Ponzio. Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 316 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780299305802. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a …
Terrence Peterson: Reading Mosse in an Age of Populism
For George L. Mosse, the past was always contemporary. Historians may search for meaning in the past, but that search is – and should be, Mosse would add – tied to the ‘vital problems’ historians …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Application and Function
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The final chapter of Cataclysms, “Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War,” …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Genocide and Memory
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The chapter from which this translation of Cataclysms gains its English …