Recent Discussions
The conference "Social Movements after 1968: Germany, Europe, and Beyond" will be held at the Rutgers University Center for European Studies (New Brunswick, NJ) from 7-9 November 2018.
ANN: Call for Seminar Proposals (German Studies Association Conference in Portland, OR, October 3-6, 2019)
The 43rd German Studies Association Conference in Portland, OR from October 3-6, 2019 will continue to host a series of seminars in addition to conference sessions and roundtables.
ANN: H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 8 October - 15 October 2018
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 8 October 2018 to 15 October 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-German. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
ANN: Sexual Violence in the Context of the Holocaust, Genocide and War (Montreal, October 15, 2018)
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Type:
Conference
Date:
October 15, 2018
ANN: 7 Promotionsstipendien in Germanistik (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill und Duke University)
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Type:
Fellowship
Date:
December 18, 2018
ANN: 7 Promotionsstipendien in Germanistik (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill und Duke University)
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Type:
Fellowship
Date:
December 18, 2018
CFP: A Celebration of European Friendship, Aston University, Brexit Day
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Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
December 7, 2018
ANN: Make Revolution Great Again: conference on the 1918-19 German Revolution
Make Revolution Great Again: The context and legacy of the 1918-19 German Revolution
9-10 November 2018, Old Library, All Souls College, University of Oxford, in conjunction with the Faculty of History, the Oxford Centre for European History, and the German History Society.
FEATURED JOB: Tenure-track Job at University of Maryland
Assistant Professor of German and Environmental Humanities (Full Time, Tenure Track)
CFA: Binational Visiting Fellow Tandem Program in the History of Migration at GHI WEST in Berkeley
The German Historical Institute (GHI) is seeking applications for a Binational Visiting Fellow Tandem. The Fellowship program contributes to the creation of the new research network “Knowledge in Transit - Migrants’ Knowledge in Comparative Perspective” at the GHI West - Pacific regional office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC in Berkeley.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Karen Auerbach
Auerbach on Dynner, 'Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland'
Glenn Dynner. Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 249 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-998851-8.
Reviewed by Karen Auerbach (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Published on H-German (June, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Coexistence and Symbiosis: The Jewish Tavernkeeper in Nineteenth-Century Poland
Reviewer:
Kelly McFall
McFall on Dorondo, 'Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945'
David R. Dorondo. Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 352 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-086-6.
Reviewed by Kelly McFall Published on H-German (June, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Delaying the Inevitable: The Decline of the Cavalry in Germany
Reviewer:
Robert P. Stephens
Stephens on Jessen and Nembach-Langer, 'Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945'
Ralph Jessen, Lydia Nembach-Langer, eds. Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Pub., 2012. xvi + 234 pp. GBP 74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-2444-4; ISBN 978-1-4094-2445-1.
Reviewed by Robert P. Stephens (Virginia Tech) Published on H-German (April, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
A Close Examination of Postwar Retailing
Reviewer:
Robert Terrell
Terrell on Bauerkämper and Kaelble, 'Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen'
Arnd Bauerkämper, Hartmut Kaelble, eds. Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen. Studies on the History of European Integration Series. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 187 pp. $54.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-515-10045-8.
Reviewer:
Lily E. Hirsch
Hirsch on Thomas Trezise, 'Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony'
Thomas Trezise. Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 336 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-4448-5.
Reviewed by Lily E. Hirsch (California State University-Bakersfield) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Trauma and Biography
Reviewer:
Tom Saunders
Saunders on Doherty, 'Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939'
Thomas Doherty. Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Film and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 448 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16392-7; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-16393-4.
Reviewed by Tom Saunders (University of Victoria) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Business Strategies, Politics and Morality: American Cinema and Nazi Germany
Reviewer:
Christiane Grieb
Grieb on Schaad, 'Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten'
Martin Schaad. Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten. Berlin: Ch Links Verlag, 2009. x + 208 pp. EUR 4.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86153-516-4.
Reviewed by Christiane Grieb (University College London) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Stasiobjekt “Mauer”: Menschen im Konflikt zwischen Mauer und Souveränität
Reviewer:
Robert D. Billinger, Jr.
Billinger, Jr. on James, 'Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe'
Leighton S. James. Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xiii + 281 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-24917-2.
Reviewed by Robert D. Billinger, Jr. (Wingate University) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Contemporary Accounts of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe
Reviewer:
Margrit Frolich
Frolich on Loewy and Rauschenberger, '"Der Letzte der Ungerechten": Der "Judenälteste" Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942-1975'
Ronny Loewy, Katharina Rauschenberger. "Der Letzte der Ungerechten": Der "Judenälteste" Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942-1975. Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts Series. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2011. 208 pp. EUR 24.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-593-39491-6.
Reviewed by Margrit Frolich (University of California San Diego) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
"Der Letzte der Ungerechten"
Reviewer:
Zachary Doleshal
Doleshal on Siegelbaum, 'The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc'
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, ed. The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. vii + 242 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4991-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-7738-6.
Reviewed by Zachary Doleshal (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy