Recent Discussions

Discussion published by James Chappel on Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Reminder: Konrad Jarausch Essay Prize for Advanced Graduate Students in Central European History (Deadline 31 May 2021)

On behalf of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar, I would like to remind everyone about the third annual Konrad Jarausch Essay Prize for Advanced Graduate Students in Central European History. We invite any doctoral candidate at a North American university to submit an article or dissertation chapter. A committee will select a winner, who will be given an honorarium and the opportunity to present his or her work to our vibrant seminar. Full details can be found here.

Discussion published by Adi Saleem Bharat on Tuesday, April 20, 2021

ANN (Lecture): "Defining Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Lessons from UK Universities" Seth Anziska, University College London, 21 April 2021 12pm EST/ 5pm BST 

Dear colleagues,

Please join us tomorrow, April 21 at 12 pm ET/ 5 pm BST, for a lecture by Professor Seth Anziska on Defining Antisemitism and Islamophobia. More information and registration details are available on our website and below: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jmrn/upcoming-events/defining-antisemitism-and-islamophobia-lessons-from-uk-universities/

Discussion published by Cornelia Pierstorff on Tuesday, April 20, 2021

ANN (Lecture): „Roman und reine Erfahrung. William James’ radikaler Empirismus als Vollzug des Lesens“, Zurich Distinguished Lecture 2021, Helmut Müller-Sievers, 26 May 2021

 

Zurich Distinguished Lecture 2021

„Roman und reine Erfahrung. William James’ radikaler Empirismus als Vollzug des Lesens“

Discussion published by Jakub Szumski on Friday, April 16, 2021

CFP (Workshop): Transformation of (Post-)Communist Memory. Renaming Public Spaces and Redefining Monuments in Germany and Poland since 1990 (Deadline 17 May 2021)

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May 17, 2021
Discussion published by Stephan Jaeger on Friday, April 16, 2021

ANN: Program of the annual CAUTG/APAUC conference (Canadian Association of University Teachers of German); May 30-June 2, 2021, online conference

Announcement of the program of the Annual CAUTG/APAUC Conference (Canadian Association of University Teachers of German)

 

Discussion published by Jennifer Wunn on Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Brown on Irene Guenther. Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier's Testimony of the Great War. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Illustrations. 248 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-01575-3.

Review published on Thursday, April 8, 2021
Discussion published by Jennifer Wunn on Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Kranjc on Mezger. Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944. Studies in German History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 360 pp. $85.00 (cl

Review published on Saturday, April 10, 2021

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Recent Reviews

Review published on Friday, February 6, 2015
Author: 
Ulrike Weckel
Reviewer: 
Steven R. Cerf

Cerf on Weckel, 'Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager'

Ulrike Weckel. Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 672 pp. EUR 76.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-515-10113-4.

Reviewed by Steven R. Cerf (Bowdoin College) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross

The Showing of Allied Documentary Atrocity Films in 1945 and 1946 and the Shaming of Three Groups of German Nationals

Review published on Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Author: 
Adam Kożuchowski
Reviewer: 
John Fahey

Fahey on Kożuchowski, 'The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe'

Adam Kożuchowski. The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 232 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6265-6.

Reviewed by John Fahey (Purdue University) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Finding Meaning in Austria-Hungary’s Postmortem

Review published on Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Author: 
Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, Dieter Ziegler, eds.
Reviewer: 
Stephen J. Silvia

Silvia on Berghoff and Kocka and Ziegler, 'Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History'

Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, Dieter Ziegler, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Publications of the German Historical Institute Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 249 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01695-8.

Reviewed by Stephen J. Silvia (American University) Published on H-German (January, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Review published on Friday, November 21, 2014
Author: 
Pamela E. Swett
Reviewer: 
Janet M. C. Walmsley

Walmsley on Swett, 'Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany'

Pamela E. Swett. Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 361 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7355-3; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8047-8883-0.

Reviewed by Janet M. C. Walmsley (George Mason University) Published on H-German (November, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

How to Sell in the Hardest of Times

Review published on Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Author: 
Christoph Strohm
Reviewer: 
Amy Nelson Burnett

Burnett on Gordon, 'Calvin' and Neuser, 'Johann Calvin: Leben und Werk in seiner Frühzeit 1509-1541' and Reinhardt, 'Die Tyrannei der Tugend: Calvin und die Reformation in Genf' and Strohm, 'Johannes Calvin: Leben und Werk des Reformators'

Bruce Gordon. Calvin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Illustrations. xiii + 398 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-12076-9.Wilhelm H. Neuser. Johann Calvin: Leben und Werk in seiner Frühzeit 1509-1541. Reformed Historical Theology Series. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. 352 pp.

Review published on Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Author: 
Laura Heins
Reviewer: 
Anjeana Hans

Hans on Heins, 'Nazi Film Melodrama'

Laura Heins. Nazi Film Melodrama. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 256 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07935-1.

Reviewed by Anjeana Hans (Wellesley College) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Women in Nazi Film: Transgressing Morality as an Ideological Tool

Review published on Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Author: 
Willy Cohn, Norbert Conrads, ed.
Reviewer: 
Teresa Walch

Walch on Cohn and Conrads, 'No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941'

Willy Cohn, Norbert Conrads, ed. No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933-1941. Trans. Kenneth Kronenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 440 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7324-9.

Reviewed by Teresa Walch (University of California San Diego) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Willy Cohn’s Diaries: An Account of Jewish Life in Breslau, 1933-1941

Review published on Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Author: 
Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer
Reviewer: 
Anne Berg

Berg on Neumann and Marcuse and Kirchheimer, 'Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort'

Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort. Edited by Raffaele Laudani. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 704 pp. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4008-4646-7; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-13413-0.

Reviewed by Anne Berg (University of Michigan) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Legible Enemy

Review published on Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Author: 
Jens Lachmund
Reviewer: 
Kristin Poling

Poling on Lachmund, 'Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature'

Jens Lachmund. Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012. Illustrations. 336 pp. $42.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-01859-3; $28.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-31241-7.

Reviewed by Kristin Poling (University of Rochester) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

How Ecologists Found Nature in the City

Review published on Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Author: 
Ari Joskowicz
Reviewer: 
Robert E. Alvis

Alvis on Joskowicz, 'The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France'

Ari Joskowicz. The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 392 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8702-4.

Reviewed by Robert E. Alvis (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology) Published on H-German (October, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Modern Jewish Identity and the Catholic Other

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