Dan Royles. To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 319 PP. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 9781469661339. Dan Royles’ new volume explores HIV/AIDS activism in …
New Books
Adam Blackler review of Sean Wempe’s “Revenants of the German Empire”
Sean Andrew Wempe. Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, & the League of Nations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 288 PP. Cloth $74.00. ISBN: 9780190907211. In the aftermath of World War …
Max Lazar review of Robert Gellately’s “Hitler’s True Believers”
Robert Gellately. Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 pp. ISBN: 9780190689902. The winds of change were blowing in Braunschweig when Elisabeth Gebensleben-von Alten, the wife of the city’s …
Spencer J. Weinreich review of Tamar Herzig’s “A Convert’s Tale”
Tamar Herzig. A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 9780674237537. In a story told with all the elegance of Renaissance goldsmithery, the single …
Eric Kurlander review of Anson Rabinbach’s “Staging the Third Reich”
Anson Rabinbach. Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History. Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. 494 pp. ISBN 9780367818975. Anson Rabinbach has spent the …
Matthew Unangst review of Marie Muschalek’s “Violence as Usual”
Marie Muschalek, Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019). 270 PP. $49.95. ISBN: 978-1501742859. Marie Muschalek’s Violence as Usual takes as its subject the Landespolizei, …
Maria Mitchell review of Giuliana Chamedes’s “A Twentieth-Century Crusade”
Giuliana Chamedes. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 432 pp. $39.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0674983427. Giuliana Chamedes’ masterfully conceived and richly documented study of Vatican policy …
Grace Allen, Exploring the Power and Limits of Victim-Witness Testimony in Emma Kuby’s “Political Survivors”
Emma Kuby. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 312 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9781501732799. Emma Kuby’s Political Survivors: The Resistance, the …
Jennifer Gramer, The Art of Collaboration- “Hitler’s Art Dealer”
Meike Hoffmann and Nicola Kuhn. Hitlers Kunsthändler: Hildebrand Gurlitt 1895-1956. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2016. 400 PP. Cloth. 24.95€. ISBN: 9783406690945. In September of 2010, German authorities at the Swiss border stopped an aged man on …
Chad S.A. Gibbs, On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
On the Shoulders of Yitzhak Arad: A Review of The Operation Reinhard Death Camps and Paths for Future Research on Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka The three extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard, or Operation Reinhard, sit …
Till van Rahden, “Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life”
Till van Rahden. Demokratie: Eine gefährdete Lebensform. Frankfurt: Campus, 2019. 196 PP. Cloth. 24.95€. ISBN: 9783593511344. 1) What Mood Are We In? Over the past fifteen years, we have moved from complacency and hubris to …
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: …
Mendel Kranz, review of Adi Gordon’s “Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn”
Adi Gordon. Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017. 344 PP. Cloth. $95.00. ISBN: 9781512600872. It is surely no easy feat to write the intellectual biography of …
Chad Gibbs, review of Peter Filkins’s “H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds”
Peter Filkins. H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 424 PP. Cloth. $33.95. ISBN: 9780190222383. Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and H.G. Adler. The lives of these three individuals share much …
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 …
Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition
A critical edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin 2016. Edited by Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger and Roman Töppel, et al. The following is a shortened review essay by …
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 …
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 …
Philipp Stelzel, The Myth of the Resentful Émigré
Philipp Stelzel. History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 248 PP. Cloth. $69.95. ISBN: 9780812250657. After World War II many Germans viewed German-Jewish émigrés’ perspectives on German history—perspectives like George …
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 …
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 …