Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann, and Shira Miron. Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 355 PP. Cloth $60.00. ISBN: 9781512826357. The advent of mass photography has often …
Jewish Studies
Michael E. O’Sullivan, review of Anthony J. Steinhoff, Jeffrey T. Zalar, eds., “Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe”
Anthony J. Steinhoff and Jeffrey T. Zalar eds. Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. 485 PP. Cloth $171.99. ISBN: 9783110573671. The so-called “religious turn” in modern European history started during …
Ross F. Collins, review of Amanda K. Greene, “Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo”
Amanda K. Greene, Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 222 PP. $54.00. ISBN: 9780262550826. Photographers whose careers reach back more than a couple decades will be familiar with …
Taili Hardiman, “Conference Report, 60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited”
60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited, Jan 9th-13th 2025, Sapienza Università di Roma and The American Academy in Rome, On-site and Recorded The “60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited” conference, held 9–12 January 2025, at Sapienza Università …
Memorial Tributes: Anson Rabinbach (1945-2025)
David Abraham Professor Emeritus, School of Law University of Miami “Sandy and I have known Andy –it’s very hard to use the past tense for a contemporary and compatriot – for nearly half a century …
Alex Scheepens, “George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship (2023-2024)”
As part of my dissertation on Dutch Jewry in the Shoah, I was privileged and fortunate enough to receive the George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This prestigious award …
Ludwig Decke, Conference Report: “Berlin Art Patrons and Their Country Houses as Places for the Private Display of Collections”
Sammlerinnen und Sammler des Berliner Mäzenatentums und ihre Landhäuser als Orte der privaten Kunstpräsentation Kunsthistorisches Institut der FU-Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Raum A 163, 27. September 2024 Sponsored by: Freie Universität zu Berlin Deutsche …
Hilary Handin, review of Renée Poznanski, “Propaganda and Persecution The French Resistance and the ‘Jewish Question’”
Renée Poznanski. Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Problem.” Translated by Lenn J. Schramm. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. 632 PP. $79.95 Cloth. ISBN 9780299345600. After a Gestapo agent orders …
Katherine Alcauskas, “New Lachmann-Mosse Family Artwork Donations to the UW-Madison Chazen Museum of Art”
The Chazen Museum of Art recently added to its collection seventeen artworks descended within the Lachmann-Mosse family and generously donated by John Tortorice. Altogether, they demonstrate the eclectic collection that the wealthy and influential German-Jewish …
Daniel Aschheim, Lecture: “Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity”
Memorial Union Date: 14:30, 6 June 2023 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen, Taili Hardiman Transcript: Skye Doney: First, I would say there are a few books for sale. Twenty bucks paperback. Daniel Aschheim: Bargain price. …
Abigail Lewis, review of Annette Becker’s “Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides”
Annette Becker. Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides. Trans Käthe Roth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 9780299333201. The central question driving Annette Becker’s newly …
Sonia Gollance, review of Barry Trachtenberg’s “The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye”
Barry Trachtenberg. The Holocaust & The Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth $37.50. ISBN 9781978825451. The encyclopedia is a genre of the Enlightenment, …
George L. Mosse interview with Jost Hermand: 19 May 1992
Professors Carol Poore and Marc Silberman found the following cassette in Professor Jost Hermand’s home after he passed away on 9 October 2021. Recorded on 19 May 1992, Professor Hermand asks George L. Mosse about …
Alex Scheepens, George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2022-2023
Upon completing my preliminary examinations in June 2022, I was privileged to receive a George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which enabled me to travel to Israel, live and …
Jay Geller, review of Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney eds., “Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination”
Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, eds. Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 418 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN 9780299342401. The mid-twentieth century produced many exceptional scholars of German history, more …
Gabriel Chazan, review of Rotem Rozental’s “Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement”
Rotem Rozental. Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement. New York: Routledge, 2023. 260 pp. Cloth $160.00. ISBN 9781032182384. Rotem Rozental’s Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement makes a strong argument that photographs were crucial …
Oral History: Vicki Caron
Narrator: Vicki Caron Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 31 March 2017 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 38 minutes, 39 seconds Format: Audio Vicki Caron biography: Vicki Caron is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University. Prior to …