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Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality
https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019/
8 June 2019
"Memories of Mosse" session, moderated by John Tortorice
John Tortorice is Director Emeritus of the George L. Mosse Program at UW-Madison/Hebrew University where he worked with students, staff, and faculty from both universities to implement George L. Mosse’s visionary bequest of his estate to benefit future generations of scholars. He has co-authored four books including What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Europe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
Speakers include:
John Tortorice
Jim Hilb
David Sorkin
David Warren Sabean
Anson Rabinbach
Herbert Lewis
Idit Ben Or
Jeffrey Herf
Katie Jarvis
Steven Aschheim
Frank Mecklenburg
Harry Oosterhuis
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin
Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality
https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019/
8 June 2019
"Memories of Mosse" session, moderated by John Tortorice
John Tortorice is Director Emeritus of the George L. Mosse Program at UW-Madison/Hebrew University where he worked with students, staff, and faculty from both universities to implement George L. Mosse’s visionary bequest of his estate to benefit future generations of scholars. He has co-authored four books including What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Europe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
Speakers include:
John Tortorice
Jim Hilb
David Sorkin
David Warren Sabean
Anson Rabinbach
Herbert Lewis
Idit Ben Or
Jeffrey Herf
Katie Jarvis
Steven Aschheim
Frank Mecklenburg
Harry Oosterhuis
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin



![Oral History: James Hilb
George L. Mosse Program in History Oral History Project
Interview with James Hilb
8 March 2019
Jim Hilb graduated with a BA-History and Economics from UW-Madison in 1968 having had George L. Mosse as his educational advisor. He furthered with an MBA-Marketing and Economics from the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner School of Business in 1972, and recently completed studies in Chinese Mandarin for Business-Miami University (Ohio) 2013-2014, Farmer School of Business.
Jim has enjoyed a successful business career based in Cincinnati, Ohio, as an owner and team participant of multiple businesses specializing in fashion accessories, sports marketing and promotional products. He has served on several boards and shares a passion for the Mosse Program in which he has been recently involved and deeply committed. In 2019, Jim attended the George L. Mosse 100th Anniversary Birthday Conference in Berlin, Germany [mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019].
Videographer: William Tishler
Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop from the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring at UW-Madison
For more George L. Mosse Oral History Project interviews, visit: https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/oral-history/ Oral History: James Hilb](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ji0-_Vt19lM/mqdefault.jpg)






