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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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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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Thomas Brodie: Review of Herzog’s Unlearning Eugenics

Posted on February 4, 2019

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 …

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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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Martina Cucchiara: Reflections on the Persecution of “Privileged” Jews in Nazi Germany

Posted on November 28, 2018

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 …

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Jen Gramer: Marrus’s Some Measure of Justice- What Do We Want from Reparations?

Posted on March 28, 2018

Michael R. Marrus, Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) Nearly four years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. …

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Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man in the #MeToo Moment

Posted on February 14, 2018

George Mosse concludes The Image of Man with a relatively brief reflection on the fortunes of the masculine stereotype since 1945. It is the shortest chapter of the book, by an odd kind of necessity: …

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Javier Samper Vendrell: Review of Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man

Posted on January 8, 2018

Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Alessio Ponzio Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 316 pp. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a valuable contribution to the …

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Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Application and Function

Posted on October 18, 2017

The final chapter of Cataclysms, “Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War,” addresses Dan Diner’s “universal civil war” as it expanded geographically after 1945, becoming the Cold War. The section begins with a return to the …

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Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory

Posted on October 11, 2017

The chapter from which this translation of Cataclysms gains its English title is also the one rooted in Professor Dan Diner’s expertise as a Holocaust scholar. Chapter Four, “Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory,” focuses on ethnicity, …

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Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Outside Looking In

Posted on September 28, 2017

Dan Diner, Catacylsms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008). Anyone studying the twentieth century will have little trouble identifying certain key developments: the Russian Revolution; the …

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Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Who Influences Whom?

Posted on September 13, 2017

One critical question in the study of religion from at least the late nineteenth century and the work of Durkheim is the relationship between society and religion. Do social phenomena influence religion, or does religion …

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Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Egyptology in Modern European Thought

Posted on August 30, 2017

As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, it may seem unusual to find such a book in a publication series devoted …

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Jon Beltz, Assmann’s Of God and Gods: An Overview

Posted on August 22, 2017

At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism seems like an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural …

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Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Schmitt’s Legacy

Posted on April 6, 2017

This is the fourth and final in a series of blog posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. After the war, Schmitt returned to Christianity, becoming part of a group of Christians stylizing …

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Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Sovereignty

Posted on March 29, 2017

This is the third in a series of posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. Schmitt’s concept of sovereignty, that the sovereign is “he who decides on the state of exception,” has taken …

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Matthew Unangst, The Theology of Carl Schmitt’s Antisemitism

Posted on March 20, 2017

This is the second in a series of posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. In the third chapter of the book, Gross attends to the ways in which Schmitt imagined Jews as …

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Matthew Unangst, The Antisemitism of Carl Schmitt

Posted on March 9, 2017

Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews provoked much discussion in Germany upon its publication in 2000. The book forced a reexamination of the writing of Carl Schmitt, the so-called “crown jurist of the Third …

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Brad Baranowski reviews Martin Jay, Reason After its Eclipse (2016)

Posted on January 6, 2017

                  Martin Jay, Reason after its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Professor Jay gave the George L. Mosse Lectures in Jerusalem …

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