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 …
Mosse Program Books
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 …
Chad Alan Goldberg, “Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought”
Chad Alan Goldberg. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 PP. Cloth. $113.00. ISBN: 9780226460413. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in …
Brad Baranowski, review of Martin Jay’s “Reason After its Eclipse”
Martin Jay. Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 272 PP. Cloth. $44.95. ISBN: 9780299306502. Martin Jay, Reason …