Emilio Gentile. Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man. Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi. Foreword Stanley Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 224 PP. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 9780299334307. …
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Dagmar Herzog, “In Exile in the Promised Land,” a review of “Queer Jewish Lives”
Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay, eds., Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. 332 PP. Paper $37.05. ISBN 9783837653328. This astonishing, groundbreaking anthology offers a panoply of unexpected …
Annette Becker and Mary Louise Roberts, “Messengers of Disaster”
Mary Louise Roberts: It’s a great honor to have Annette Becker here today. She’s a professor of contemporary history at Paris Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She …
Oral History: David Sorkin
Narrator: David Sorkin Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 8 November 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Length: 2 hours, 5 minutes David Sorkin Biography: David Sorkin studied with George L. Mosse as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. …
Oral History: Christopher Browning
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 …
Oral History: Anson Rabinbach
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 …
Sunny Yudkoff: “Mosse, Literature, and the Wisconsin Workshop”
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 Campagin 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 …
Javier Samper Vendrell, review of Alessio Ponzio’s “Shaping the New Man”
Alessio Ponzio. Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 316 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780299305802. Alessio Ponzio’s Shaping the New Man is a …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Application and Function
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The final chapter of Cataclysms, “Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War,” …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Genocide and Memory
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. The chapter from which this translation of Cataclysms gains its English …
Jason Wolfe, Dan Diner’s “Cataclysms”: Outside Looking In
Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. Anyone studying the twentieth century will have little trouble identifying certain …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Who Influences Whom?
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. One critical question in the study of religion from at …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: An Overview
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Schmitt’s Legacy
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the fourth …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Sovereignty
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the third …
Matthew Unangst, The Theology of Carl Schmitt’s Antisemitism
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the second …
Matthew Unangst, The Antisemitism of Carl Schmitt
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt …