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Tom McLeish on James Ungureanu’s “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition”

Posted on April 14, 2020

Review of: James C. Ungureanu Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019). Book Abstract: The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of …

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Kenny Kolander: Dan Hummel’s “Covenant Brothers”

Posted on July 10, 2019

Daniel G. Hummel, Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).* Jewish and Christian Zionists each lay claim to a special covenant with God. But the two groups have managed to …

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Two New Mosse Network Books: Aschheim and Dubnov/Robson

Posted on May 13, 2019

Steven E. Aschheim, Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018). Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson eds. Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford: Stanford University …

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New Book: Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren

Posted on May 13, 2019

Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019). This book surveys Zionist attitudes towards Asia and the Eastern world, concentrating on various ‘pan-Eastern’ …

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Kilian Harrer: The French Revolution and the Contingencies of Citizenship- On Katie Jarvis’s Politics in the Marketplace

Posted on April 16, 2019

No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is a tricky notion, a site where legal categorizations, identities, and individual or familial strategies intermingle in myriad ways. Mosse lost his own primary citizenship …

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Marina Zilbergerts: Review of Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital

Posted on February 20, 2019

Sunny Yudkoff’s recent monograph, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing, (Stanford University Press, 2018) presents a fresh study of the production of Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the first half of …

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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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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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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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Kilian Harrer: George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault

Posted on September 17, 2018

“‘Bourgeoisie’ instead of ‘state’ or ‘nation’ center here – old Marxist scheme.” This taut finger-wag of an annotation was written by George L. Mosse, like countless other comments, underlinings, and arrows—all preserved in the books …

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Abigail Lewis: Jews behind the Camera, 1850-1950

Posted on September 10, 2018

Michael Berkowitz, Jews and Photography in Britain (Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin Press, 2015). Fans of the Netflix show, The Crown (2016-present), may recognize the presence of photography in the show’s presentation of …

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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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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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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: 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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Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: General Will

Posted on March 1, 2017

Mosse’s General Will and Christianity  On the first page of Nationalization of the Masses, Mosse introduces us to the “general will,” a term rooted in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) that consists of “the …

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Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Politics as Drama

Posted on February 23, 2017

Politics as Drama: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses One of Nationalization of the Masses’ most enduring contributions is to evoke how the masses came to see politics as a “drama within which liturgical rites took …

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Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Secular Religion

Posted on February 6, 2017

Secular Religion: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses The Nationalization of the Masses is not one of George Mosse’s best known works, but it remains a stimulating and relevant analysis of the rise of mass movements …

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Ana Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)

Posted on February 2, 2017

Ana E. Schaposchnik is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. Ana Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). The Holy Office of the Inquisition …

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Chad Alan Goldberg, Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Posted on January 31, 2017

New Book by Professor Chad Alan Goldberg: Chad Alan Goldberg, Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in …

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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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