John Boonstra, review of Terrence G. Peterson. Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 PP. Cloth $46.95. ISBN: 9781501776960. In Rachid Bouchareb’s 2006 film, Indigènes [Days …
New Books
Robert Mueller-Stahl, review of Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann, and Shira Miron, “Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann, and Shira Miron. Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 355 PP. Cloth $60.00. ISBN: 9781512826357. The advent of mass photography has often …
Michael E. O’Sullivan, review of Anthony J. Steinhoff, Jeffrey T. Zalar, eds., “Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe”
Anthony J. Steinhoff and Jeffrey T. Zalar eds. Handbook of Religious Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. 485 PP. Cloth $171.99. ISBN: 9783110573671. The so-called “religious turn” in modern European history started during …
Ross F. Collins, review of Amanda K. Greene, “Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo”
Amanda K. Greene, Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 222 PP. $54.00. ISBN: 9780262550826. Photographers whose careers reach back more than a couple decades will be familiar with …
Margaret Andersen, review of Miranda J. Brady, “Mother Trouble: Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism”
Miranda J. Brady, Mother Trouble: Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 148 PP. $40.00 Cloth. ISBN: 9781487556945. Media portrayals of “maternal angst” are everywhere. The image …
Quinn Slobodian, review of Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. “Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History”
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley, eds. Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 464 PP. $48.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780226481623. In a 1987 book …
Joe Perry, review of Natalie Scholz, “Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology”
Natalie Scholz. Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 324 PP. $79.95 Cloth. ISBN: 9780299344306. The rise of the Federal Republic of Germany out of the rubble of the …
Hilary Handin, review of Renée Poznanski, “Propaganda and Persecution The French Resistance and the ‘Jewish Question’”
Renée Poznanski. Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Problem.” Translated by Lenn J. Schramm. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. 632 PP. $79.95 Cloth. ISBN 9780299345600. After a Gestapo agent orders …
Matthew Yokell, review of Piotr Puchalski “Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939”
Piotr Puchalski. Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge: Abingdon and New York, 2022. xvi + 312 PP. Cloth $180.00; Paper $54.99. ISBN: 9780367674700. …
Giuliana Chamedes, review of Stefanos Geroulanos “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins”
Stefanos Geroulanos. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins. New York: Liveright, 2024. 512 PP. $29.99 Cloth. ISBN: 9781324091455. In November 1898, the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy resettled in his …
Netta Green, review of Miranda Sachs’s “An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris”
Miranda Sachs. An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 256 PP. $83.00 Cloth. ISBN 9780197638453. Miranda Sachs’ latest monograph, An Age to Work, represents a significant contribution …
Gregory Jones-Katz, review of Richard Wolin’s “Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology”
Richard Wolin. Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 488 PP. Cloth $38.00. ISBN 9780300233186. While introducing his 1924 lecture course on Aristotle, Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), one of the …
CFA: 2024 Mosse First Book Prize
Submission Period Now Open for George L. Mosse First Book Prize The University of Wisconsin Press and the George L. Mosse Program in History are pleased to announce that the submission period is now open …
Daniel Aschheim, Lecture: “Bruno Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity”
Memorial Union Date: 14:30, 6 June 2023 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen, Taili Hardiman Transcript: Skye Doney: First, I would say there are a few books for sale. Twenty bucks paperback. Daniel Aschheim: Bargain price. …
Renato Foschi, review of Erica Moretti’s “The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights”
Erica Moretti. The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 330 PP. Paper $22.95. ISBN: 9780299333140. Erica Moretti, an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute …
Abigail Lewis, review of Annette Becker’s “Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides”
Annette Becker. Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth Century Genocides. Trans Käthe Roth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 9780299333201. The central question driving Annette Becker’s newly …
Sonia Gollance, review of Barry Trachtenberg’s “The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye”
Barry Trachtenberg. The Holocaust & The Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth $37.50. ISBN 9781978825451. The encyclopedia is a genre of the Enlightenment, …
George M. Marsden, review of Daniel G. Hummel’s “The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism”
Daniel G. Hummel. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2023. 400 pp. Cloth $29.99. ISBN: 9780802879226. During the …
Jay Geller, review of Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney eds., “Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination”
Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, eds. Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 418 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN 9780299342401. The mid-twentieth century produced many exceptional scholars of German history, more …
Gabriel Chazan, review of Rotem Rozental’s “Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement”
Rotem Rozental. Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement. New York: Routledge, 2023. 260 pp. Cloth $160.00. ISBN 9781032182384. Rotem Rozental’s Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement makes a strong argument that photographs were crucial …
Lecture: Norman Domeier, “World Domination and Genocide: The ‘Lochner Version’ of Hitler’s Speech on 22 August 1939, a Key Document of National Socialist Ideology”
Attendees at the event received a hard copy of the “Lochner Version” of Hitler’s speech for reference through the lecture: **** Hitler’s Speech to the Leading Wehrmacht Generals on the Obersalzberg. 22 August 1939 (“Lochner …
Caroline Kita, review of Kerry Wallach, Aya Elyada, eds. “German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations”
Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada, eds. German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations. New York: Berghahn Press, 2023. 278 PP. Cloth $145.00. ISBN 9781800736771. What is German-Jewish studies? From where did this field emerge and where is it …
Joshua Shelly, review of Marc Volovici’s “German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism”
Marc Volovici. German as a Jewish Problem: The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 352 PP. Cloth $65.00. ISBN: 9781503612303. How do we understand the field of German Jewish Studies? Given …
Daniel G. Hummel, review of Anne Perez’s “Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives”
Anne Perez. Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023. 277 PP. Paper $27.00. ISBN: 9781506481166. A small thought experiment: a non-academic friend texts you, “What book would you recommend as an introduction to …
Emma Kuby, review of Elissa Mailänder’s “Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950)”
Elissa Mailänder. Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950). Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2021. 512 PP. Paper €24.00. ISBN: 9782021459241. In 1995, an elderly Austrian woman stood before the photographic evidence of Nazi …