Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination

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 MailAEnder, Frank Mecklenburg, Mary Nolan, Stefanie SchUEler-Springorum, Roger Strauch, Enzo Traverso, Marc Volovici, Elisabeth Wagner, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Robert Zwarg

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 SchUEler-Springorum 7 People Working: Leisure, Love, and Violence in Nazi Concentration Camps Elissa MailAEnder 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 UniversitAEt 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

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