Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf: eine kritische Edition. Eds. Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger, Roman Töppel, Edith Raim, et al. Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016. 1,966 PP. Cloth. 59.00€. ISBN: 9783981405231. Othmar Plöckinger: Okay. I may …
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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. 289 PP. Cloth. $24.99. ISBN: 9783110595451. Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. Partitions: A Transnational History …
New Book: Hanan Harif, “For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought”
Hanan Harif. For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019. 299 PP. Cloth. 85 ILS. ISBN: 9789652273604. This book surveys Zionist attitudes towards Asia and …
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, review of Katie Jarvis’s “Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France”
Katie Jarvis. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 352 PP. Cloth. $51.00. ISBN: 9780190917111. No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is …
Marina Zilbergerts, review of Sunny Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing”
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 …
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 …