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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Robert Corban, review of Lorenzo Benadusi’s “Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death”
Lorenzo Benadusi. Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death. Translated by Zakiya Hanafi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 416 PP. $79.95. ISBN 9780299333300. Lorenzo Benadusi is an Associate …
Athan Biss, review of Francine Hirsch’s “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg”
Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 560 PP. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 9780199377930. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World …
Tom McLeish, review of James Ungureanu’s “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition”
James C. Ungureanu. Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2019. 368 PP. Cloth. $50.00. ISBN: 9780822945819.Review of: James C. Ungureanu Science, Religion and the Protestant Tradition: …
Kenny Kolander, review of Dan Hummel’s “Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations”
Daniel G. Hummel. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 352 PP. Cloth. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0812251401.* Jewish and Christian Zionists each lay claim to a special covenant with God. …
Two New Mosse Network Books: Aschheim and Dubnov/Robson
Steven E. Aschheim. Fragile Spaces: Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 289 PP. Cloth. $24.99. ISBN: 9783110595451. Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. Partitions: A Transnational History …
New Book: Hanan Harif, “For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought”
Hanan Harif. For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought. Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center, 2019. 299 PP. Cloth. 85 ILS. ISBN: 9789652273604. This book surveys Zionist attitudes towards Asia and …
Kilian Harrer, review of Katie Jarvis’s “Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France”
Katie Jarvis. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 352 PP. Cloth. $51.00. ISBN: 9780190917111. No one understood better than George L. Mosse that “citizenship” is …
Marina Zilbergerts, review of Sunny Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing”
Sunny Yudkoff. Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 256 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9781503605152. Sunny Yudkoff’s recent monograph, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Kilian Harrer: George L. Mosse Reads Michel Foucault
“‘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 …
Abigail Lewis, review of Michael Berkowitz’s “Jews and Photography in Britain”
Michael Berkowitz. Jews and Photography in Britain. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press, 2015. 358 PP. Cloth. ISBN: 9781477305560. Fans of the Netflix show, The Crown (2016-present), may recognize the presence of photography in …
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 …
National Jewish Book Awards Received by Two Mosse Visiting Professors
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 …
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”: 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 …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: General Will
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 …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Politics as Drama
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 …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Secular Religion
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 …
Ana Schaposchnik, “The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru”015)
Ana E. Schaposchnik. The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 294 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780299306106. The Holy Office of the Inquisition (a royal tribunal that …