Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface: Mosse’s Berlins
• Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney
• Introduction: George L. Mosse: The Work, the Legacy, the Man
• Steven Aschheim
• Part I. George L. Mosse (1918–1999)
• 1 Civilizing the Nation: Can Mosse’s Europe Be Saved?
• Aleida Assmann
• 2 Past Subjunctive: George L. Mosse’s Memoir
• Darcy Buerkle
• Part II. New Politics of Exclusion
• 3 Conceptualizing Fascism: The Legacy of George L. Mosse
• Enzo Traverso
• 4 Women, Gender, and the Radical Right: Then and Now
• Mary Nolan
• 5 Behemoth Rises Again: On Twenty-First-Century Fascism
• Andreas Huyssen
• Part III. Gender, Violence, and the Everyday
• 6 Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany
• Stefanie SchÜler-Springorum
• 7 People Working: Leisure, Love, and Violence in Nazi Concentration Camps
• Elissa MailÄnder
• Part IV. Soldiers
• 8 Morality, Nazi Ideology, and the Individual in the Third Reich: The Example of the Wehrmacht
• David Harrisville
• 9 Reading Mosse in Jerusalem: Fallen Soldiers and Israel’s Culture of Commemoration
• Arie Dubnov
• Part V. German Jews beyond Berlin
• 10 Religious Commitment and Leadership among German-Jewish Women in the Early Twentieth Century
• Sarah Wobick-Segev
• 11 Who Owns the German Language? Zionism from Hochdeutsch to Kongressdeutsch
• Marc Volovici
• 12 Photography between Empire and Nation: German-Jewish Displacement and the Global Camera
• Rebekka Grossmann
• 13 Max Nordau between George L. Mosse and Benzion Netanyahu
• Adi Armon
• Part VI. Mosse and Berlin: Then and Today
• 14 “There’s Nothing Innocuous Left”: The Everyday Transfigured
• Robert Zwarg
• 15 Absence/Presence: The Berlin Mosse Topography
• Elisabeth Wagner
• 16 The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) at Freie UniversitÄt Berlin
• Meike Hoffmann
• 17 The Mosse Family in Berlin: Cultural Capital for Subsequent Generations
• Frank Mecklenburg
• Afterword: A Family Message: The Mosse Berlin Legacy
• Roger Strauch
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Darcy Buerkle, a professor of history at Smith College, is the author of Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide.

Skye Doney is the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832–1937.

Contributors: Adi Armon, Steven E. Aschheim, Aleida Assmann, Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney, Arie M. Dubnov, Rebekka Grossmann, David Harrisville, Meike Hoffmann, Andreas Huyssen, Elissa MailÄnder, Frank Mecklenburg, Mary Nolan, Stefanie SchÜler-Springorum, Roger Strauch, Enzo Traverso, Marc Volovici, Elisabeth Wagner, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Robert Zwarg

Reviews

Mosse’s pathbreaking work on fascism, masculinity, Judaism, war, and genocide still reverberates a half century after his death. The wide-ranging, topical, and persuasive essays in this volume show how the intellectual seeds Mosse planted as a scholar and teacher continue to bear fruit." - Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville