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Chad S.A. Gibbs, On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

Posted on July 14, 2020

On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps and Paths for Future Research on Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka The three extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard, or Operation Reinhard, sit …

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Scott Spector, The Novel Corona Virus Crisis as Pedagogical Opportunity: History of the Present

Posted on May 27, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis hit the United States and our students were sent home to complete the semester remotely, my colleague and I were teaching an introductory lecture course called “History of the Present.” The …

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Chad S.A. Gibbs: George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2019-2020

Posted on May 11, 2020

A Holocaust memoir in the form of a musical. A living witness. Historical connections to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. And hundreds of previously unknown primary sources left behind by survivors of Treblinka. These are …

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Amos Bitzan: COVID-19 in Jerusalem, March 18, 2020

Posted on March 18, 2020

I hope that in future posts I will be able to document many of my wonderful experiences in Jerusalem and at the Hebrew University this academic year. This first post, however, will focus on less …

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Sarah Qidwai, Sayyid Ahmad Khan: A Familiar Figure in an Unfamiliar Historical Setting

Posted on March 11, 2020

As a historical figure, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) is frequently characterized as a leader of Muslim nationalism in India and a reformer of both Islam and education.[1] Throughout his life he established several educational …

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David Milne: Lecture- Sigrid Schultz: Investigative Reporter who Predicted World War II

Posted on March 4, 2020

  N.B. Please do not quote without the author’s permission. This is the transcript of a delivered lecture, not a finished paper or journal article. Skye Doney: I want to thank you all for coming …

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Chad Gibbs: H.G. Adler by Peter Filkins

Posted on September 24, 2019

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

Posted on September 11, 2019

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 …

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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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Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition

Posted on April 19, 2019

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 …

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Philipp Stelzel: The Myth of the Resentful Émigré

Posted on January 11, 2019

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 …

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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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Stanley Payne: Walter Laqueur Dies at Ninety-Seven

Posted on December 10, 2018

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 …

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Robert A. Nye: The Convergence of George L. Mosse and Michel Foucault

Posted on October 9, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part II

Posted on October 2, 2018

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 …

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Paul Breines: Reflecting on George Mosse’s Reading of Michel Foucault: A Response, Part I

Posted on September 24, 2018

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 …

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Abigail Lewis: Teaching European History through Pictures

Posted on June 8, 2018

With support from the George L. Mosse Program in History, I had the privilege of lecturing a history course entitled “Picturing History.” The lectureship allows for graduate students to craft a lecture course completely of …

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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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Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Fluid Masculinities

Posted on January 31, 2018

The discipline of History is highly concerned with change over time. Though there are certainly examples of long-term stability in the past – farming practices, economic structures, family dynamics, etc. – historians usually look for …

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National Jewish Book Awards Received by Two Mosse Visiting Professors

Posted on January 23, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Gideon Reuveni (George L. Mosse, Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2004) and Professor Chad Alan Goldberg (George L. Mosse Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, 2008). Their recent publications have been recognized by the …

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Jim Coons: Mosse’s Image of Man- Invisible History

Posted on January 19, 2018

George Mosse’s Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity traces the creation, maturation, and various erosions or perversions of the dominant Western ideal of manhood across the 19th and 20th centuries. This modern ideal, …

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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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Terrence Peterson: Reading Mosse in an Age of Populism

Posted on October 24, 2017

For George L. Mosse, the past was always contemporary. Historians may search for meaning in the past, but that search is – and should be, Mosse would add – tied to the ‘vital problems’ historians …

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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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