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Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-born, Jewish-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and also in Israel, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] Best known for his studies of Nazism, he authored more than 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history, Protestant theology, and the history of masculinity. In 1966, he and Walter Laqueur founded The Journal of Contemporary History, which they co-edited.

Key Information

Biography

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Family and early years

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Mosse was born in Berlin to a prominent, well-to-do German Jewish family. His mother Felicia (1888–1972) was the only daughter of the publisher and philanthropist Rudolf Mosse, the son of a doctor imprisoned for revolutionary activity in 1848,[2] and the founder of a publishing empire that included the leading, and liberal, newspapers the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung and Berliner Tageblatt. [3] These were the most highly regarded and prestigious papers produced by the big three of Berlin publishing during the Weimar Republic, Ullstein, Scherl (taken over by Hugenberg), and Mosse.

A maternal uncle, Albert Mosse, a constitutional scholar, had helped frame Japan's Meiji Constitution. Mosse believed there was photograph from the year 1936 in which Hermann Göring and the Japanese Crown Prince (possibly confused by Mosse with the 1937 visit of Prince Chichibu) stand before his uncle's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Schönhauser Allee.[4]

Mosse's father Hans Lachmann (1885–1944) (he adopted the double-barrel Lachmann-Mosse following his marriage) was the grandson of a wealthy and religious Jewish grain merchant. He rose to manage his father-in-law's media empire. In 1923 he commissioned the architect Erich Mendelsohn to redesign the iconic Mossehaus where the Tageblatt was published (the building was restored in the 1990s).

In his autobiography, Mosse described himself as a mischievous child given to pranks. He was educated at the noted Mommsen-Gymnasium in Berlin and from 1928 onwards at Schule Schloss Salem, a famously spartan boarding school that exposed the scions of rich and powerful families to a life devoid of privilege. The headmaster at Salem, Kurt Hahn, was an advocate of experiential education and required all pupils to engage in physically challenging outdoor activities. Although Mosse disliked the school's nationalistic ethos, he conceded that its emphasis on character building and leadership gave him "some backbone."[5] He preferred individual sports, such as skiing, to team activities.

Emigration

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Mosse described his parents, who practiced Reform Judaism and were anti-Zionist, as being, in their own minds, completely integrated as Germans ("gänzlich eingedeutscht"). He suggested that they did not take seriously the threat posed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis until henchmen of the new regime forced his father, at gunpoint, to sign over control of the publishing house.[6] Mosse may have been speaking metaphorically: his father in April 1933 had left for Paris seeking refuge, not only from the Nazis but also from business creditors, who had had foreclosed on the publisher the previous autumn.

Insolvency could not be avoided, and the regime seized the opportunity to force a transfer of ownership. In Paris, Lachmann-Mosse received an invitation from Hermann Göring to return to the Berliner Tageblatt as its business manager with the protective status of an Honorary Aryan (Ehrenarier);[7] Mosse suspected that the motive was to wrest control of the network of foreign press agencies and offices that had remained in the family's possession.[8] His father spurned the offer and never returned to Germany.

With his wife and children in Switzerland, from Paris Lachmann-Mosse secured a divorce and married Karola Strauch (the mother of Harvard physicist Karl Strauch). In 1941 the couple moved to California where his father died, a celebrated patron of the arts, in 1944.[9]

From Switzerland, Mosse moved to England, where he enrolled at the Quaker Bootham School in York. It was here, according to his autobiography, that he first became aware of his homosexuality. A struggling student, he failed several exams, but with the financial support of his parents he was admitted to study history at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1937.[10] Here he first developed an interest in historical scholarship, attending lectures by G. M. Trevelyan and Helen Maude Cam. Unlike his second cousin (and fellow Cambridge history student) Werner, however, Mosse's exam results remained mediocre: upon sitting Part I of the historical tripos in 1939 he was awarded only a lower second.[11]

The United States

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In 1939, Mosse's family relocated to the United States, and he continued his undergraduate studies at the Quaker Haverford College, earning a B.A. in 1941. He went on to graduate studies at Harvard University, where he benefited from a scholarship reserved for students born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His 1946 PhD dissertation on English constitutional history of the 16th and 17th centuries, supervised by Charles Howard McIlwain, was subsequently published as The Struggle for Sovereignty in England (1950).

With others of what he describes politically as the "Spanish Civil War generation", Mosse was a member of the Socialist Club at Harvard. They were, he concedes, naive about the nature of the Soviet Union, seen first and foremost as the opponent of fascism, and the indispensable ally against Hitler.[12]

Mosse's first academic appointment as an historian was at the University of Iowa, where he focused on religion in early modern Europe and published a concise study of the Reformation that became a widely used textbook. Here he organized opposition to McCarthyism and, in 1948, support for the Progressive Party presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace. Despite being in the center of a conservative farm state, he experienced no personal repercussions. Against Joseph McCarthy he found allies among conservative Republicans who regarded the red-baiting senator as a "disruptive radical".[13]

In 1955, Mosse moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began to lecture on modern history. His The Culture of Western Europe: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, an Introduction (1961), which summarizes these lectures, was also widely adopted as a textbook.

Mosse taught for more than thirty years at the University of Wisconsin, where he was named a John C. Bascom Professor of European History and a Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, while concurrently holding the Koebner Professorship of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Beginning in 1969, Mosse spent one semester each year teaching at the Hebrew University. He also held appointments as a visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After retiring from the University of Wisconsin in 1989, he taught at Cambridge University and Cornell University. He was named the first research historian in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scholarship

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Mosse's first published work was a 1947 paper in the Economic History Review describing the Anti-Corn Law League. He claimed that this was the first time the landed gentry had tried to organize a mass movement in order to counter their opponents. In The Holy Pretence (1957), he suggested that a thin line divides truth and falsehood in Puritan casuistry. Mosse declared that he approached history not as narrative, but as a series of questions and possible answers. The narrative provides the framework within which the problem of interest can be addressed. A constant theme in his work is the fate of liberalism. Critics pointed out that he had made Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, the chief character of his book The Struggle for Sovereignty in England (1950), into a liberal long before liberalism had come into existence. Reviewers noted that the sub-text in his The Culture of Western Europe (1961) was the triumph of totalitarianism over liberalism.

His most well-known book, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1964), analyzes the origins of the nationalist belief system. Mosse claimed, however, that it was not until his book The Nationalization of the Masses (1975), which dealt with the sacralization of politics, that he began to put his own stamp upon the analysis of cultural history. He started to write it in the Jerusalem apartment of the historian Jacob Talmon, surrounded by the works of Rousseau. Mosse sought to draw attention to the role played by myth, symbol, and political liturgy in the French Revolution. Rousseau, he noted, went from believing that "the people" could govern themselves in town meetings, to urging that the government of Poland invent public ceremonies and festivals in order to imbue the people with allegiance to the nation. Mosse argued that there was a continuity between his work on the Reformation and his work on more recent history. He claimed that it was not a big step from Christian belief systems to modern civic religions such as nationalism.

In The Crisis of German Ideology, he traced how the "German Revolution" became anti-Jewish, and in Toward the Final Solution (1979) he wrote a general history of racism in Europe. He argued that although racism was originally directed towards blacks, it was subsequently applied to Jews. In Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectable and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (1985), he claimed that there was a link between male eros, the German youth movement, and völkisch thought. Because of the dominance of the male image in so much nationalism, he decided to write the history of that stereotype in The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (1996).

Mosse saw nationalism, which often includes racism, as the chief menace of modern times [citation needed]. As a Jew, he regarded the rejection of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe as a personal threat, as it was the Enlightenment spirit which had liberated the Jews. He noted that European nationalism had initially tried to combine patriotism, human rights, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance. It was only later that France and then Germany came to believe that they had a monopoly on virtue. In developing this view Mosse was influenced by Peter Viereck, who argued that the turn towards aggressive nationalism first arose in the era of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Ernst Moritz Arndt. Mosse traced the origins of Nazism in völkisch ideology back to a 19th-century organicist worldview that fused pseudo-scientific nature philosophy with mystical notions of a "German soul". The Nazis made völkisch thinking accessible to the broader public via potent rhetoric, powerful symbols, and mass rituals. Mosse demonstrated that antisemitism drew on stereotypes that depicted the Jew as the enemy of the German Volk, an embodiment of the urban, materialistic, scientific culture that was supposedly responsible for the corruption of the German spirit.

In Toward the Final Solution, he claimed that racial stereotypes were rooted in the European tendency to classify human beings according to their closeness or distance from Greek ideals of beauty. Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe extended these insights to encompass other excluded or persecuted groups: Jews, homosexuals, Romani people, and the mentally ill. Many 19th-century thinkers relied upon binary stereotypes that categorized human beings either as "healthy" or "degenerate", "normal" or "abnormal", "insiders" or "outsiders". In The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity, Mosse argued that middle-class male respectability evoked "counter-type" images of men whose weakness, nervousness, and effeminacy threatened to undermine an ideal of manhood.

Mosse's upbringing attuned him to both the advantages and the dangers of a humanistic education. His book German Jews beyond Judaism (1985) describes how the German-Jewish dedication to Bildung, or cultivation, helped Jews to transcend their group identity. But it also argues that during the Weimar Republic, Bildung contributed to a blindness toward the illiberal political realities that later engulfed Jewish families. Mosse's liberalism also informed his supportive but critical stance toward Zionism and the State of Israel. In an essay written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Zionism, he wrote that the early Zionists envisioned a liberal commonwealth based on individualism and solidarity, but a "more aggressive, exclusionary and normative nationalism eventually came to the fore."

Historian James Franklin argues that:

as a teacher and scholar, George Mosse has posed challenging questions about what it means to be an intellectual engaged in the world. The central problem Mosse has examined throughout his career is: how do intellectuals relate their ideas to reality or to alternative views of that reality?.... Mosse has chosen to focus on intellectuals and the movements with which they were often connected at their most intemperate.... For Mosse, the role of the historian is one of political engagement; he or she must delineate the connections (and disconnections) between myth and reality.[14]

Distinction as a teacher

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The George L. Mosse Humanities Building (right), University of Wisconsin-Madison

At the University of Wisconsin, Mosse was recognized as a charismatic and inspiring teacher. Tom Bates's Rads: A True Story of the End of the Sixties (1992) describes how students flocked to Mosse's courses to "savor the crossfire" with his friend and rival, the Marxist historian Harvey Goldberg. Mosse charmed his students by mingling critical skepticism with humor, irony, and empathy; but they also admired the way he applied his historical knowledge to contemporary issues, attempting to be fair to opposing views while remaining true to his own principles. He served as director for 38 Ph.D. dissertations.

Legacy

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Mosse left a substantial bequest to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to establish the George L. Mosse Program in History, a collaborative program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also left modest endowments to support LGBT studies at both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Amsterdam, where he taught as a visiting professor. These endowments were funded by the restitution of the Mosse family's properties that were expropriated by the Nazi regime and restored in 1989–1990, following the collapse of East Germany. The George Mosse Fund was created at the University of Amsterdam to further the advancement of gay and lesbian studies.[15] The American Historical Association annually awards the George L. Mosse Prize.[16]

Awards and honors

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Selected works

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  • The Struggle for Sovereignty in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Petition of Right, 1950.
  • The Reformation, 1953.
  • The Holy Pretence: A Study in Christianity and Reason of State from William Perkins to John Winthrop, 1957.
  • The Culture of Western Europe: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. An Introduction, 1961.
  • The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, 1964.
  • Corporate State and the Conservative Revolution in Weimar Germany, 1965.
  • Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich, edited by G. L. Mosse, 1966.
  • 1914: The Coming of the First World War, edited by G. L. Mosse and Walter Laqueur, 1966.
  • Literature and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by G. L. Mosse and Walter Laqueur, 1967.
  • Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi Germany, 1970.
  • Historians in Politics, edited by G.L. Mosse and Walter Laqueur, 1974.
  • Jews and Non-Jews in Eastern Europe, 1918-1945, edited by G. L. Mosse and Bela Vago, 1974.
  • The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich, 1975.
  • Nazism: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of National Socialism, 1978.
  • Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, 1978.
  • International Fascism: New Thoughts and New Approaches, edited by G. L. Mosse, 1979.
  • Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality, 1980.
  • German Jews beyond Judaism, 1985.
  • Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe, 1985.
  • Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars, 1990 (translated into German in 1993 and into French in 1999).
  • "Ich bleibe Emigrant." [In conversation with Irene Runge and Uwe Stelbrink.] Berlin: Dietz, 1991 (in German).
  • Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism, 1993.
  • The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity, 1996.
  • The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism, 1999.
  • Confronting History – A Memoir, 2000.

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George Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-born American historian who specialized in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe, with foundational contributions to understanding nationalism, fascism, Nazism, racism, and the intersections of sexuality and politics. Born into a prominent Jewish publishing family in Berlin—descended from tycoon Rudolf Mosse, founder of the liberal Berliner Tageblatt—he experienced an affluent upbringing disrupted by the rise of Nazism, prompting his emigration at age 15 in 1933 via France and Switzerland to England, and eventually the United States in 1939. Educated at a Quaker school in , University, and , Mosse completed a Ph.D. in at Harvard in 1946, initially focusing on English constitutional history and the Reformation before shifting to modern German and European themes. He taught European history at various American institutions starting in 1944, joining the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1955 where he built its modern European history program, taught for over four decades, and also lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from the 1960s. A prolific author of over 25 books, his seminal The Crisis of German Ideology (1964) traced the völkisch intellectual roots of Nazi thought, while works like Toward the Final Solution (1978) examined the evolution of European racism and Nationalism and Sexuality (1985) analyzed bourgeois respectability, masculinity, and symbolism in fostering mass political movements. Mosse's scholarship emphasized cultural symbols, aesthetics, and irrational forces over purely structural or economic explanations, repositioning and as central to European rather than aberrant outliers—a perspective informed partly by his identity as an openly Jewish émigré, which also shaped his explorations of outsider status, , and . He co-founded the Journal of Contemporary History in 1966, mentored numerous scholars, and left a lasting legacy through the George L. Mosse Program in History at UW–Madison, established via his bequest to advance and . His Confronting History (1999) reflected on these themes, underscoring a commitment to empirical amid personal and academic evolution.

Early Life

Family Background and Childhood

George Lachmann Mosse was born Gerhard Lachmann Mosse on September 20, 1918, in , , into a prominent and affluent assimilated Jewish family known for its ownership of the Mosse publishing empire. The family's wealth derived primarily from the liberal-leaning , a major newspaper often likened to the of its era, alongside other publications and advertising ventures that made it one of Europe's largest media conglomerates. His paternal grandfather, Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920), had founded the publishing house in 1867, rising from humble origins to amass a fortune through innovative and , symbolized by the opulent Mossehaus headquarters and a Renaissance-inspired on 's Leipziger Platz constructed in 1882. Mosse's father, Hans Lachmann-Mosse (1885–1944), initially a banker, married Rudolf's daughter Felicia Mosse (1888–1972) in 1910 and assumed control of the business, adopting the hyphenated surname; he commissioned modern redesigns of family properties, reflecting the enterprise's prominence. The family maintained a proud without conversion to Christianity, despite rising , and resided in lavish Berlin estates and rural properties that underscored their upper-bourgeois status. Mosse had two older siblings from his parents' marriage: brother Rudolf Georg Lachmann-Mosse (1913–1958) and sister Hilde Mosse (1911–1986), the latter of whom later became a noted . His early childhood, spent largely in during the final years of the , was marked by privilege and stability, with no personal foreboding of political upheaval; he later recalled an "idyllic bourgeois" existence amid family grandeur, including interactions with his grandfather Rudolf before the latter's death in 1920, when Mosse was two years old. This environment fostered a detached yet observant , shaped by the and intellectual milieu of Berlin's Jewish elite.

Pre-Emigration Education

George Lachmann Mosse, born on September 20, 1918, in to a prominent Jewish , began his formal in the city. He attended and early secondary instruction at the Mommsen-Gymnasium, a prestigious institution known for its classical curriculum emphasizing Latin, Greek, and humanities. In 1928, at age ten, Mosse transferred to the , an elite progressive boarding school located near in southern Germany. Founded in 1919 by educator , Salem promoted holistic development through rigorous academics, physical challenges, and community service, drawing inspiration from British public school models like those in Tom Brown's Schooldays. The school's environment fostered independence and moral character amid Germany's Weimar-era instability. Mosse, described in retrospective accounts as a mischievous student prone to pranks, experienced Salem's structured yet innovative during a period of increasing political tension. The institution's Jewish headmaster, Hahn, faced Nazi pressure, leading to his exile in shortly before Mosse's own departure. Mosse remained at the school until March 31, , completing his pre-university secondary education there as his family navigated the early Nazi consolidation of power.

Emigration and Settlement in America

Escape from Nazi Persecution

George Lachmann Mosse, born on September 20, 1918, in to a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family, encountered immediate threats after the seized power in January 1933. His grandfather Rudolf Mosse had founded a empire that included the influential Berliner Tageblatt, but Rudolf's death in September 1933 coincided with Nazi efforts to Aryanize Jewish-owned businesses, leading Mosse's father, Hans, to lose control of the family's newspaper operations. Amid the regime's rapid implementation of anti-Jewish boycotts, professional exclusions, and violence—exemplified by the April 1, , nationwide boycott of Jewish shops and businesses—Mosse's parents arranged for their 14-year-old son to leave for safety. In , he was sent alone to , a Quaker boarding institution in , , which provided refuge from the intensifying persecution that would culminate in the of 1935 and in 1938. This emigration to marked Mosse's initial escape, severing him from the Nazi-controlled environment where over 400 anti-Jewish decrees were enacted by 1935, stripping of citizenship and economic viability. While his family also fled, Mosse's relocation to a neutral Quaker school underscored the pragmatic use of educational networks common among affluent Jewish families seeking to protect children from and pogroms. He subsequently pursued studies at Cambridge University, but the 1939 outbreak of war in prompted his further departure to the , ensuring distance from Nazi expansion.

Initial Adaptation and Education in the US

In 1939, following the outbreak of , George Mosse immigrated to the with his family, marking the end of his studies at Cambridge University and the beginning of his resettlement in America. The family's prior experiences in exile—from to and then —had already accustomed Mosse to displacement, but the move across the Atlantic introduced new challenges, including the loss of the family publishing empire's assets, which had been seized by the Nazis in , leaving them without their prior financial security. Despite these disruptions, Mosse's prior attendance at the Quaker in facilitated his admission to , a Quaker institution in , where the emphasis on and community aligned with his recent experiences abroad. At Haverford, Mosse completed his , earning a B.A. in in 1941. The college's small, introspective environment—characterized by required attendance at daily meetings for worship and a focus on ethical inquiry—provided a structured transition for the 21-year-old émigré, contrasting with the more secular and urban settings of his Berlin childhood. Mosse later reflected that this Quaker milieu reinforced his developing interest in intellectual and moral philosophy, though he encountered the practicalities of American campus life, such as part-time work and social integration among predominantly Protestant students, as a German-Jewish refugee amid rising wartime tensions. His academic performance remained strong, allowing a seamless progression to graduate studies. In 1941, Mosse enrolled at to pursue a in , which he completed in 1946 under the supervision of prominent Europeanists. His dissertation examined aspects of modern German intellectual and political , reflecting an early focus on and cultural that would define his later scholarship. Wartime conditions delayed completion but also prompted Mosse to begin teaching European as early as 1944 at various institutions, including Lake Forest College and the State University of Iowa, blending adaptation with professional entry into American academia. This period solidified his command of English academic discourse, honed through prior Cambridge exposure, and positioned him amid a cohort of European émigré scholars navigating U.S. universities' expanding interest in continental post-World War II.

Academic Career

Early Positions and Shift in Focus

Mosse earned his PhD in from in 1946, with a dissertation examining the constitutional struggle for between the English crown and during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This work, revised and published in 1950 as The Struggle for Sovereignty in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the , reflected his initial scholarly emphasis on early modern European political and religious thought, including topics like the role of and reason in . Following his doctoral studies, Mosse secured his first full-time academic appointment as an instructor of European history at the in 1944, a position he held until 1955. At Iowa, his teaching and early publications centered on Reformation-era religion, , and constitutional developments in , maintaining a focus on pre-modern periods distant from contemporary politics. In 1955, he advanced to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an of European history, where expanded resources and a growing faculty role allowed broader exploration. By the late 1950s, Mosse's research trajectory shifted decisively toward modern European , particularly the cultural and ideological roots of , , and in . This pivot, influenced by his personal experience as a Jewish fleeing , marked a departure from constitutional and religious toward analyzing völkisch movements, myth-making in mass politics, and the "brutalization" of bourgeois values in the twentieth century. His 1964 book The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich exemplified this turn, tracing irrationalist strains in and as precursors to totalitarian ideologies rather than treating them as mere epiphenomena of economic or structural forces. Subsequent works, such as The Nationalization of the Masses (1975), further entrenched this focus on symbolism, aesthetics, and popular mobilization in fascist appeal.

Major Teaching Roles and Institutional Impact

Mosse commenced his academic teaching career in 1944, instructing European at several universities across the prior to his appointment as a professor of at the University of Iowa. In 1955, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an associate of European , advancing to full and holding prestigious endowed positions, including the John C. Bascom Professorship in European and the Weinstein-Bascom Professorship. Beginning in 1969, he divided his time annually, teaching one semester at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while maintaining his role at Wisconsin. His courses encompassed Western civilization, Reformation , European intellectual , and Jewish , with the latter marking him as one of the earliest academics to offer such instruction at an American university. At Wisconsin-Madison, Mosse's lectures drew substantial student enrollment, fostering a generation of historians through his mentorship and emphasis on cultural interpretations of modern European history. His influence extended institutionally via a significant bequest that established the George L. Mosse Program in History, which supports graduate fellowships, international exchanges—benefiting over 120 students in its first decade—and interdisciplinary scholarship in history and related fields. This endowment also aided the Hebrew University, reinforcing cross-institutional ties in historical studies. Additionally, the American Historical Association's George L. Mosse Prize, awarded annually since 2000 for exemplary works in post-Renaissance European intellectual or cultural history, commemorates his scholarly legacy and promotes rigorous inquiry in these domains.

Pedagogical Methods and Student Influence

Mosse employed a dynamic and challenging pedagogical style that emphasized critical inquiry and the deconstruction of historical myths, urging students to question established prejudices and avoid simplistic explanations. He welcomed disagreement in the classroom, fostering independent thinking among students of diverse political views, and explicitly aimed to "rid [them] of [their] slogans" through rigorous analysis rather than rote acceptance of ideologies. His lectures, delivered with eloquence, droll humor, and intellectual vigor, transformed history into a tool for personal and societal awareness, encouraging engagement with contemporary issues. At the , where he taught from 1955 until his retirement in 1987, Mosse offered courses on Western civilization, Reformation history, European intellectual history, and , often innovating with multimedia approaches such as producing and acting in historical films to illustrate key concepts. Mosse's influence extended profoundly to both undergraduate and graduate students, whom he mentored with unbounded dedication; he directed dozens of dissertations, shaping scholars like Steven Aschheim, Anson Rabinbach, and , many of whom advanced in academia. His students included future professors, U.S. Senator Russell Feingold, and rabbis Levi Kelman and Andrew Bachman, with several becoming central figures in the intellectual "New Left" movements of the and 1970s at . By prioritizing cultural dimensions over essentialist interpretations, Mosse inspired a generation to apply historical insights to modern , , and identity, leaving a legacy of critical scholarship that influenced fields like and . Students frequently recorded his lectures for their emotional and intellectual impact, reflecting his role in sparking transformative engagement with the past.

Core Scholarly Themes

Nationalism, Myth, and Mass Politics

George Mosse's analysis of emphasized its transformation into a that mobilized the masses through symbolic and ritualistic means, particularly in from the onward. In his 1975 book The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich, Mosse argued that modern succeeded by creating a "political " that integrated disparate social groups into a unified national , countering the fragmentation of . This process involved the deliberate cultivation of myths drawn from romanticized national histories, blended with classical and pagan elements, to evoke emotional loyalty and provide a sense of transcendence beyond rational individualism. Central to Mosse's thesis was the role of mass politics in nationalizing everyday life, achieved not primarily through ideological tracts but via participatory rituals and symbols that fostered . Examples included public festivals like the of 1832, which drew tens of thousands to affirm German unity through songs, chants, and processions, and monuments such as the (erected 1836–1875), symbolizing heroic ancestry and serving as sites for pilgrimages. Organizations like Friedrich Jahn's gymnastic clubs, male choral societies, and sharpshooting associations infused leisure activities with nationalist content, promoting physical discipline and communal myths of racial purity and vitality. These elements evolved into a standardized aesthetic by the late , blending Lutheran liturgical forms with völkisch mysticism—such as sacred flames and folklore—to create a disciplined "national congregation." Mosse highlighted how these myths underpinned the völkisch movement, which originated in early 19th-century efforts to revive folk traditions but increasingly incorporated antisemitic and exclusionary tropes, laying groundwork for fascist . By the and Third Reich, this secular religion reached its apogee, with Nazi rituals—parades, torchlight marches, and monumental architecture—perfecting the fusion of myth and politics to elicit total devotion, as seen in events like the starting in 1933. Unlike leftist movements focused on economic grievances, nationalists excelled by offering aesthetic fulfillment and respectability, objectifying abstract ideals like the "general will" through tangible symbols. In works like Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality (1987), Mosse extended this framework to argue that nationalist and fascist ideologies constructed alternative realities via these myths, rejecting Enlightenment universalism in favor of organic, hierarchical visions of community. He posited as a repressive response to modernity's dislocations, generating utopian narratives that disciplined the populace while inspiring , though critics later noted the vagueness in defining nationalism's "style" and its overemphasis on German exceptionalism. This cultural approach shifted toward viewing mass politics as rooted in symbolism rather than solely socioeconomic factors, influencing studies of as a "political ."

Fascism and Nazism: Cultural Dimensions

Mosse's analysis of and emphasized their cultural underpinnings as responses to the disorienting effects of , industrialization, and the erosion of traditional values, providing secular religions through myths, symbols, and rituals that appealed to alienated masses. He argued that these movements politicized , transforming into a of festivals, monuments, and uniforms to foster national unity and a sense of transcendence, as seen in the evolution from Napoleonic-era symbolism to the Third Reich's . In works like The Nationalization of the Masses (1975), Mosse traced how "nationalized" the masses by sacralizing public life, rejecting Enlightenment rationality in favor of irrationalist myths of organic community, . Central to his examination of Nazism's cultural dimensions was the völkisch ideology, which Mosse detailed in The Crisis of German Ideology (1964) as originating in nineteenth-century , anti-urbanism, and a cult of and racial purity that intellectually prefigured the Third Reich. This ideology rejected bourgeois respectability and , promoting instead a virile "new man" through the glorification of the body, war, and heroism, evident in Nazi aesthetics like Leni Riefenstahl's and the Hitler Youth's physical training regimens. In Nazi Culture (1966), an anthology of primary documents, Mosse illustrated how permeated everyday life with racial myths, sterilizing rational discourse and embedding in cultural norms. For fascism more broadly, particularly Italian Fascism, Mosse highlighted its revolutionary cultural break from tradition, using symbolism—such as Mussolini's Forum and balustrades—to evoke imperial grandeur and mass participation, though less racially obsessive than Nazism. In Masses and Man (1987), he explored fascist perceptions of reality as rooted in stereotypes of masculinity, action over intellect, and a revolt against modernity's fragmentation, enabling movements to mobilize through ritualistic pageantry rather than doctrinal coherence. Mosse distinguished Nazism's racial biologism, which intensified destruction via policies like the Holocaust, from fascism's state-centric authoritarianism, yet both shared a common cultural logic of myth-making to forge inner emigration for nonconformists while dominating public culture. This framework shifted historiography from socioeconomic determinism to cultural voluntarism, underscoring how aesthetics and symbolism granted these regimes popular legitimacy until their military failures.

Antisemitism, Racism, and Jewish Assimilation

Mosse examined as an integral component of German , intertwined with völkisch ideology that rejected Enlightenment in favor of romantic, organic emphasizing blood, soil, and myth. In Germans and : The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi (1970), he analyzed how both conservative and progressive German thinkers failed to counter rising , as sought integration through liberal or socialist alliances that proved illusory against cultural exclusion. Mosse argued that persisted not merely as but as a offering identity and purpose, drawing on as rootless cosmopolitans antithetical to the national community. His broader study of , detailed in Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (1978), traced its evolution from 18th-century pseudo-scientific classifications to 19th-century myths and 20th-century , culminating in Nazi policies. Mosse contended that provided a comprehensive —complete with rituals, symbols, and exclusionary myths—that bridged Enlightenment-era hierarchies and modern mass politics, enabling the shift from to extermination without requiring direct economic causation. He emphasized cultural dimensions over purely political ones, noting how racist ideologies permeated , art, and , fostering a respect for "otherness" only within racial boundaries. While acknowledging no inevitable progression to , Mosse highlighted how these ideas normalized violence against perceived racial inferiors, including , Roma, and Africans. Regarding Jewish assimilation, Mosse portrayed German Jews post-emancipation (beginning with the 1812 Prussian reforms) as actively constructing a secular identity through Bildung—the cultivation of rational, aesthetic self-improvement drawn from Enlightenment ideals—to align with bourgeois German culture. In German Jews Beyond Judaism (1985), he detailed how figures in literature, theater, and journalism, such as Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne, popularized hybrid German-Jewish expressions, emulating Protestant ethics of work and restraint to overcome stereotypes of Jewish otherness. Yet, Mosse critiqued this strategy's limitations: assimilation internalized German respectability but clashed with völkisch demands for ethnic purity, rendering Jews perpetual outsiders despite acculturation rates exceeding 90% by 1910 in urban centers like Berlin. Persistent antisemitism, he argued, stemmed from cultural incompatibility rather than incomplete integration, as racial theories redefined Jewishness as immutable biology, undermining Enlightenment universalism. This failure, evident in pre-1933 exclusion from civil service and academia, underscored Mosse's view that Jewish efforts at cultural mimicry could not dispel myths weaponized by nationalists.

Sexuality, Respectability, and Bourgeois Culture

In Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (1985), George L. Mosse analyzed how bourgeois respectability shaped sexual norms and intersected with from the late eighteenth century onward. He defined respectability as a set of middle-class norms emphasizing self-control, propriety, and restraint in behavior for both men and women, which served to stabilize society amid industrialization's disruptions. This framework excluded "abnormal" sexualities—such as , , and perceived deviance—by constructing them as threats to national unity, often stereotyping and other outsiders as embodiments of sexual disorder. Mosse contended that nationalism drew on these bourgeois sexual ideals to foster cohesion, portraying the respectable family as a microcosm of the nation-state. Respectability, in his view, repressed open sexuality while promoting stereotypes that reinforced exclusionary myths, with male sexuality particularly emphasized as a marker of rational, disciplined . He traced this dynamic through German and English sources, arguing that the maintained a class-specific sexuality to differentiate itself from the and working classes, thereby linking personal morality to political loyalty. Extending these ideas to fascism, Mosse described fascist movements as inheriting and intensifying bourgeois respectability, with Nazis embodying the "ideal bourgeois" through and the transcendence of individual sexuality in favor of national purity. This cultural mechanism, he argued, facilitated by channeling sexual energies into mythic , stigmatizing deviations as racial or moral impurities. In The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern (1996), Mosse complemented this analysis by examining the evolution of the male stereotype in since the Enlightenment. He portrayed modern masculinity as a constructed ideal of restraint, action, and aesthetic harmony—rooted in bourgeois respectability—to counter fears of and disorder, often excluding non-conforming sexualities and tying manhood to national vigor. This work highlighted how such norms influenced politics, with deviations pathologized to uphold cultural hierarchies.

Methodological Innovations and Critiques

Cultural History Approach

George L. Mosse's approach centered on the analysis of , rituals, and performances as drivers of modern ideologies, particularly and , diverging from prevailing socioeconomic or institutional frameworks. He contended that these movements derived potency from their capacity to evoke emotional and aesthetic responses through myths and symbols, transforming abstract ideas into lived experiences for the masses. This method highlighted how cultural elements, such as public festivals and , constructed collective identities and legitimated authoritarian . Influenced by the of ritual—exemplified in Ernst Kantorowicz's studies of medieval —Mosse extended these techniques to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining nationalism's quasi-religious structures. He introduced concepts like "," where nations assumed sacred attributes through cults of martyrs, shrines, and ; "," encompassing marches, processions, and commemorations that instilled and unity; and the "aesthetics of politics," prioritizing visual and performative spectacles over rational discourse. In this view, represented not merely a political rupture but a , mobilizing bourgeois respectability and stereotypes of to underpin its appeal. Mosse applied this framework in The Nationalization of the Masses (1975), tracing how German mass movements from the to the Third Reich employed gymnastic displays, torchlit parades, and monuments to forge a "national mystique" that blurred lines between civilian and life. Similarly, in Nationalism and Sexuality (1985), he linked cultural norms of respectability—rooted in bourgeois values of and heteronormativity—to the exclusionary logics of and , arguing that deviations from these ideals fueled ideological extremism. His approach thus illuminated fascism's cultural preconditions, integrating sexuality and body politics as analytical lenses often overlooked in earlier . By foregrounding these dimensions, Mosse elevated cultural history's role in interpreting , influencing subsequent on how rituals and symbols sustain mass . Critics later noted limitations in overemphasizing ritual's rigidity, prompting shifts toward more fluid , yet his innovations remain foundational for understanding ideology's performative aspects.

Key Debates and Scholarly Criticisms

One key debate surrounding Mosse's centers on the primacy of cultural symbols and myths in explaining and , as opposed to economic, structural, or class-based factors emphasized by Marxist or social historians. Mosse argued that succeeded through the "nationalization of the masses" via aesthetic , rituals, and völkisch myths, rather than mere or material crises, positing these elements as inherent to modern since the late . Critics, however, contend that this culturalist approach underemphasizes granular socio-economic contingencies and overgeneralizes 's appeal, treating symbolic mobilization as almost autonomous from underlying power dynamics or voter motivations. For instance, his framework has been faulted for tensions in linking 's irrational myths directly to fascist outcomes, acknowledging nuances in German developments but risking ahistorical breadth across cases. Scholarly critiques also target Mosse's interpretation of bourgeois respectability's compatibility with , where he evolved from viewing as anti-bourgeois (pre-1964) to fusing it with "normalcy" and , suggesting continuity in values like order and propriety enabled . This thesis—that respectability provided psychological and cultural scaffolding for racial exclusion—has been debated for potentially conflating surface normalcy with causation, implying bourgeois culture was inherently fascist-prone without sufficient evidence of direct transmission mechanisms. Detractors argue it overlooks ruptures, such as Nazi anti-capitalist or proletarian support bases, and risks essentializing European modernity. In , Mosse's emphasis on elite German-Jewish assimilation through (cultivation) and has drawn fire for , portraying a top-down centered on Berlin's wealthy intellectuals rather than the broader Ostjüdisch masses or everyday experiences. Works like German Jews Beyond Judaism (1985) are seen by some as romanticizing this stratum's cultural achievements, idealizing as a bulwark against while downplaying its limitations in averting catastrophe or representing "the people." This perspective, rooted in Mosse's own assimilated background, has been critiqued for insufficient attention to popular Jewish agency or regional variations. Specific methodological critiques appear in reviews of individual texts, such as Toward the Final Solution (1978), where the analysis of interwar escalation is deemed perfunctory and underdeveloped, with the "execution" phase ( to II) lacking rigor compared to earlier intellectual genealogy. The work is also faulted for sidestepping pre-modern Iberian racial precedents that might challenge its linear European narrative, and for redundancy with Mosse's prior Crisis of German Ideology (1964), offering synthesis over novel evidence. These points highlight broader concerns with Mosse's selective sourcing and occasional breadth over empirical depth in tracing 's cultural roots.

Personal Dimensions

Jewish Identity and Personal Experiences

George L. Mosse was born on September 20, 1918, in to a wealthy, highly assimilated Jewish family prominent in publishing and commerce. His grandfather Rudolf Mosse had established the newspaper and a chain, embodying the German-Jewish pursuit of —self-cultivation through Enlightenment ideals—that aimed to forge a dual identity as both Germans and Jews. The family environment stressed rationality, cosmopolitanism, and a "mission of " abstracted into cultural rather than religious practice, though it included self-criticism of Jewish traits and awareness of without letting it dominate daily life. The rise of shattered this world. On January 30, 1933, became Chancellor; the Mosse family departed the following day, initially to , then , where George attended the Quaker . The Nazis promptly seized the family publishing house, stripping much of their capital and property. In 1939, Mosse immigrated to the , studying at and earning a PhD from the in 1946, experiences that distanced him further from while embedding refugee scholar status. Mosse's Jewish identity remained secular and historically inflected, shaped by the Holocaust's proximity—he later reflected that it "was never very far from my mind" and that he "could easily have perished with my fellow ." In Confronting History: A (2000), he articulated attachment to and as a , while cautioning against nationalism's excesses there, drawing from his analyses of European mass politics. His scholarship, including German Jews Beyond Judaism (1985), critiqued assimilation's limits, positing that German like his forebears sought transcendence of group identity via cultural participation, yet faced exclusionary myths that fueled antisemitism. In America, he rediscovered this legacy through students in the , who embraced German- amid countercultural shifts, prompting deeper personal reckoning.

Private Life and Self-Reflection

Mosse's personal life was marked by his , which he explored in his scholarship on bourgeois respectability and outsider status. He lived discreetly as a gay man for much of his career, residing primarily in , from 1955 onward, where he shared his home with long-term partner John Tortorice until his death on January 22, 1999. Unmarried and without children, Mosse channeled his energies into academia, with his influencing his lifelong focus on the cultural exclusion of minorities, including homosexuals as parallels to under . In his posthumous memoir Confronting History: A Memoir (2000), Mosse engaged in candid self-reflection, detailing his awareness of his during adolescence and his eventual , while intertwining these experiences with his and from . He described how personal marginalization as both Jew and sharpened his analytical lens on nationalism's reliance on stereotypes and norms of respectability, prompting him to view not merely as political ideology but as a cultural revolt against perceived deviance. This introspection revealed Mosse's belief that historians must confront their own subjectivities to uncover causal links between individual prejudice and mass movements. Mosse's later public reflections, such as in his 1996 lecture "The Importance of Gay History," emphasized the necessity of historicizing to dismantle myths of abnormality, drawing directly from his own navigation of secrecy and stigma in mid-20th-century academia. He argued that ignoring such personal dimensions perpetuated the very bourgeois conventions he critiqued, advocating instead for a that integrates sexuality as a driver of ideological and exclusion.

Legacy and Ongoing Influence

Historiographical Impact

Mosse's work fundamentally reshaped the historiography of by integrating into what had been predominantly political and economic interpretations, positing as a movement rooted in myths, symbolism, and nationalist ideologies that appealed to broad social strata rather than solely to marginalized groups. In The Crisis of German Ideology (1964), he demonstrated how völkisch thought, originating in the late , provided a cultural foundation for National Socialism, linking to and rejecting Enlightenment in favor of organic community ideals. This approach countered structuralist views, such as those emphasizing , by highlighting fascism's ideological coherence and capacity for across Europe, not as aberration but as extension of modernity's secular religions. His emphasis on cultural dimensions extended to nationalism studies, where he argued that 19th-century functioned as a political , fostering respectability and stereotyping that bridged bourgeois values and , influencing subsequent scholarship on how intertwined with rather than opposing it outright. Mosse's analysis in works like Nationalism and Sexuality (1985) revealed how sexual norms and body politics reinforced nationalist myths, challenging reductionist views of as anti-bourgeois by showing its adaptation of middle-class respectability for exclusionary ends. This framework has informed debates on 's appeal, prompting historians to examine symbolic rituals and over institutional power alone. In , Mosse elevated the topic from marginal pathology to central modern phenomenon, tracing its evolution from religious prejudice to racial-biological ideology embedded in Enlightenment-era secularization and bourgeois culture, as detailed in Toward the (1985). His émigré perspective, informed by personal flight from in 1933, lent empirical depth to claims of antisemitism's cultural permeation, influencing post-1980s scholarship to integrate it with broader histories of and rather than treating it in isolation. Critics note his later works occasionally overstated , yet his insistence on ideological continuity over contingency has endured, shaping analyses of genocide's intellectual precursors. Mosse's legacy persists in the cultural turn of 20th-century European history, evident in the George L. Mosse Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which continues oral histories and seminars on his methods, and in ongoing applications to , where his insights into myth-making and respectability inform studies of beyond economic factors. His corpus, spanning over 25 books, elevated from fringe to core curriculum topic by 1970s, with translations into multiple languages amplifying its reach, though some scholars critique his relative downplaying of class dynamics in favor of symbolic ones.

Relevance to Contemporary Nationalism and Populism

George Mosse's analysis of as a secular political that mobilizes the masses through myths, symbols, and rituals offers a lens for examining contemporary movements, which often prioritize emotional resonance and communal longing over ideological coherence. In works like The Nationalization of the Masses (1975), Mosse described how modern transformed politics into a performative , fostering participation via and fantasy rather than rational , a dynamic echoed in today's leaders who deploy rallies, slogans, and media to evoke belonging and combat perceived . This cultural approach underscores 's roots in and mass psychology, distinct from purely economic or class-based explanations, as seen in analyses linking völkisch movements—early precursors to both and forms—to modern anti-elite mobilizations. Mosse distinguished sharply between exclusionary integral nationalisms, which enforce uniformity and repress minorities through "othering" mechanisms like or homophobia, and more liberal, self-critical patriotisms tied to individual (cultivation) and Enlightenment values. He viewed the former as reinforcing the coercive structures of industrial modernity, a critique applicable to contemporary fusions of and that demonize immigrants, elites, or cultural outsiders to consolidate power, as in European far-nationalist parties or certain U.S. campaigns. While Mosse condemned all nationalisms in a for their potential excesses, he advocated humanistic —detached from —as an antidote, informing debates on whether modern populisms can evolve toward inclusive variants without devolving into . His sympathy for liberal , despite nationalism's risks, exemplified this nuance, cautioning against blanket rejections while highlighting emotional appeals' dual capacity for liberation or catastrophe. Scholars have invoked Mosse to interpret specific modern events, such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election, where Donald Trump's style—marked by theatrical rallies and invocations of national revival—mirrored fascist-era techniques in harnessing popular taste for over substance. Mosse's focus on war commemoration and sexuality's role in national respectability codes further illuminates how populists sacralize past myths or enforce moral binaries to legitimize exclusion, as in debates over historical memory in or . These applications affirm his methodological emphasis on , urging caution against facile analogies while stressing the enduring peril of nationalism's mass-mobilizing power in illiberal contexts. Institutions like the George L. Mosse Program at the University of Wisconsin have revived his seminars to contextualize rising , , and anti-democratic trends since the mid-2010s, demonstrating his frameworks' utility in dissecting how symbolic politics sustains movements amid globalization's disruptions. This ongoing engagement counters reductive views of as mere backlash, instead revealing deeper continuities with interwar dynamics where cultural rituals bridged elite and popular spheres.

Awards, Honors, and Recognition

Mosse was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985, recognizing his contributions to historical scholarship. He received five honorary doctorates for his academic achievements: Doctor of Literature (Litt.D.) from in 1973; Doctor of Literature (D. Litt.) from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1987; Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from Università degli Studi di Camerino in 1995; Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from Universität-Gesamthochschule-Siegen in 1998; and an from the in 1999. Other distinctions included the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the , the Leo Baeck Medal from the Institute, the Goethe Medal from the in 1988, Premio Aqui Storia, and Premio Prezzolini. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught from 1955 to 1989, Mosse was appointed John C. Bascom Professor of European History and later Weinstein-Bascom Professor of , positions that underscored his influence in the field.

Selected Works and Publications

George Mosse produced over 25 books and numerous articles, focusing on themes such as , , , and modern European . His seminal monograph The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1964) examined the völkisch movement's role in shaping Nazi ideology through romantic and racial thought. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (1966), an edited collection of primary sources, illustrated the Third Reich's pervasive cultural and exclusionary . The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Reich (1975) analyzed how modern politics ritualized mass participation through symbolism and aesthetics. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (1978) traced the evolution of scientific racism from the Enlightenment to its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (1985) explored the intersection of bourgeois respectability, nationalism, and the stigmatization of homosexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries. Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality (1987), a collection of essays, critiqued how fascist movements constructed alternative realities through and stereotyping. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the of the World Wars (1990) investigated the mythologization of deaths and the of the fallen as foundations for militaristic post-1918. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (1996) detailed the historical construction of the "stormtrooper" ideal of male physicality and from the late onward. Confronting History: A Memoir (1999), published posthumously, reflected on his Jewish heritage, , and scholarly amid 20th-century upheavals.

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