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Oral History: Christopher Browning

Posted on July 20, 2021

Narrator: Christopher R. Browning Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 2 September 2020 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Christopher R. Browning biography: Christopher R. Browning is Professor Emeritus of History at the …

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Oral History: Anson Rabinbach

Posted on July 13, 2021

Narrator: Anson Rabinbach Interviewer: John Tortorice Date:  October 26, 2017 Transcribed:  Teresa Bergen Total Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes **To access the OHMS oral history page for Anson Rabinbach, which allows listeners to search text …

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Takumi Satō, Afterword to the Japanese Edition of Mosse’s “Nationalization of the Masses”

Posted on March 31, 2021

George L. Mosse. Taishū no kokuminka – Nachizumu ni itaru seiji shinboru to taishū bunka [The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich]. …

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Eric Kurlander review of Anson Rabinbach’s “Staging the Third Reich”

Posted on November 6, 2020

Anson Rabinbach. Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History. Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. 494 pp. ISBN 9780367818975.   Anson Rabinbach has spent the …

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Sunny Yudkoff: “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop”

Posted on October 7, 2020

Scholars enter the world of George L. Mosse scholarship through different avenues. Years ago, as a graduate student studying modern Jewish literature, I first encountered Mosse’s work through The Image of Man (1996). At the …

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Mosse Comic: “Ideas can be Weapons”

Posted on September 24, 2020

Nick Thorkelson, Dave Wagner, and Paul Buhle have illustrated and written a new comic based on Mosse’s scholarship: “Ideas can be Weapons.” Below we have asked all three to answer a few questions about this …

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Scott Spector, The Novel Corona Virus Crisis as Pedagogical Opportunity: History of the Present

Posted on May 27, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis hit the United States and our students were sent home to complete the semester remotely, my colleague and I were teaching an introductory lecture course called “History of the Present.” The …

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Teresa Bergen: Lecture- What I’ve Learned from 20 Years of Listening to Interviews

Posted on April 7, 2020

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. …

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Meike Hoffmann: Lecture- The Mosse Art Research Initiative

Posted on March 24, 2020

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. …

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Claire Hitter: Memories of Memorial Union- The Preservation of Campus History at University Archives

Posted on November 4, 2019

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 …

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Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe

Posted on July 26, 2019

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 …

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Nadine Zimmerli: Teaching German History Through Novels

Posted on July 1, 2019

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 …

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Philipp Stelzel: Lecture- The Myth of the Resentful Émigré

Posted on May 2, 2019

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 …

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Kilian Harrer: The French Revolution and the Contingencies of Citizenship- On Katie Jarvis’s Politics in the Marketplace

Posted on April 16, 2019

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 …

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Marina Zilbergerts: Review of Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital

Posted on February 20, 2019

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 …

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Claire Hitter: Listening to the Past- How Oral Histories Keep Legacies Alive

Posted on January 29, 2019

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 …

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Piper Brown-Kingsley: Learning the Importance of Personal Histories

Posted on January 23, 2019

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. …

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Philipp Stelzel: The Myth of the Resentful Émigré

Posted on January 11, 2019

Philipp Stelzel, History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George L. Mosse’s—with suspicion, as they believed them to …

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Chad Gibbs: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit

Posted on January 2, 2019

Eva Noack-Mosse’s Last Days of Theresienstadt: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit The recent release of Last Days of Theresienstadt posthumously fulfills its author’s long-held wish that her recollections of life inside Theresienstadt would …

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Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven

Posted on December 10, 2018

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 …

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Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault

Posted on October 9, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II

Posted on October 2, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I

Posted on September 24, 2018

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 …

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Kilian Harrer: George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault

Posted on September 17, 2018

“‘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

Posted on September 10, 2018

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 …

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