Peter Filkins, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much in common, though their legacies diverge in …
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Dan Hummel: Israel and Evangelicals in the News
Israel has been in the American news a lot recently. The sum of all of this coverage—from the Israeli government’s drama with members of “The Squad” to President Trump’s charges of disloyalty toward Jewish Democratic …
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 …
Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition
A critical edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin 2016. Edited by Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger and Roman Töppel, et al. The following is a shortened review essay by …
Philipp Stelzel: The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
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 …
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 …
Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven
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 …
Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault
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 …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II
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 …
Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I
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 …