Review of Alexander Reynolds, To War Without Arms: The Journal of Reverend Alexander Reynolds, May – November 1944: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Review of Alexander Reynolds, To War Without Arms: The Journal of Reverend Alexander Reynolds, May – November 1944: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain, ed. Simon Trew (Devizes, UK:…
Article Note: Thomas J. Kehoe, “The Reich Military Court and Its Values: Wehrmacht Treatment of Jehovah’s Witness Conscientious Objectors”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Article Note: Thomas J. Kehoe, “The Reich Military Court and Its Values: Wehrmacht Treatment of Jehovah’s Witness Conscientious Objectors,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 33, no 3 (2019): 351-371. By Doris…
Review of Dietz Bering, Luther im Fronteinsatz. Propagandastrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Dietz Bering, Luther im Fronteinsatz. Propagandastrategien im Ersten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018). Pp. 229. By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto Sometime in the late 1980s, when I…
Article Note: Jouni Tilli, “’Deus Vult!’ The Idea of Crusading in Finnish Clerical War Rhetoric, 1941-1944”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 3 (September 2019) Article Note: Jouni Tilli, “’Deus Vult!’ The Idea of Crusading in Finnish Clerical War Rhetoric, 1941-1944,” War in History 24, no 3 (2017): 363-385. By Doris L. Bergen, University of…
Article Note: Johannes Due Enstad, “Prayers and Patriotism in Nazi-Occupied Russia: The Pskov Orthodox Mission and Religious Revival, 1941-1944″
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 3 (September 2018) Article Note: Johannes Due Enstad, “Prayers and Patriotism in Nazi-Occupied Russia: The Pskov Orthodox Mission and Religious Revival, 1941-1944,” Slavonic and East European Review 94, no 3 (2016): 468-96. By…
Review of Matthias Grünzig, Für Deutschtum und Vaterland. Die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche im 20. Jahrhundert
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 2 (June 2018) Review of Matthias Grünzig, Für Deutschtum und Vaterland. Die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche im 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Metropol, 2017). Pp. 383. ISBN: 978-3-86331-296-1. By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto Für Deutschtum und…
Article Note: Ion Popa, “Sanctuary from the Holocaust? Roman Catholic Conversion of Jews in Bucharest, Romania, 1942”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Article Note: Ion Popa, “Sanctuary from the Holocaust? Roman Catholic Conversion of Jews in Bucharest, Romania, 1942,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, no 1 (Spring 2015): 39-56. By Doris L….
John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) John S. Conway: engaged skeptic and skeptical activist By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto This article was originally published in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 27 no. 1 (2014), and is reprinted here with…
Workshop Report: Mennonites and the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 3 (September 2017) Workshop Report: Mennonites and the Holocaust–and Gerhard Rempel’s Unfinished Book, Dove and Swastika: Russian Mennonites under Nazi Occupation, University of Toronto, June 12, 2017 By Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto…
Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36,” European History Quarterly 45, no 4 (2015): 689-712. By…
Holocaust Survivors and Holocaust Scholars: A Changing and Challenging Relationship
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 4 (December 2014) Holocaust Survivors and Holocaust Scholars: A Changing and Challenging Relationship Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto On November 17, 2014, I gave the Rudolf Vrba Memorial Lecture at the University of…
Conference Report: Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories, Professional Interpretations
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories, Professional Interpretations, Capetown, South Africa, 20-22 August 2012 By Doris Bergen, University of Toronto This conference, sponsored by the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research…
Conference Report: “Christianity During the Era of Total War,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 7, 2011
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011 Conference Report: “Christianity During the Era of Total War,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 7, 2011, Boston, MA. Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto This session, sponsored by the…