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
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 …
Nadine Zimmerli: Teaching German History Through Novels
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 …
Thomas Brodie: Review of Herzog’s Unlearning Eugenics
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 …
Chad Gibbs: A Journalist’s Pen and a Survivor’s Spirit
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 …
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 …
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) Nearly four years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. …
Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man in the #MeToo Moment
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: …
Javier Samper Vendrell: Review of Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man
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 …
Jason Wolfe on Dan Diner’s Cataclysms: Application and Function
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 …