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”
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 …
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). Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson eds. Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford: Stanford University …
New Book: Hanan Harif, For We Be Brethren
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’ …
Kilian Harrer: The French Revolution and the Contingencies of Citizenship- On Katie Jarvis’s Politics in the Marketplace
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 …
Marina Zilbergerts: Review of Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital
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 …
Thomas Brodie: Review of Herzog’s Unlearning Eugenics
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 …
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 …