30 Facts About George Mosse

Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse was a German-born, Jewish-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States.

George Mosse believed there was photograph from the year 1936 in which Hermann Goring and the Japanese Crown Prince stand before his uncle's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Schonhauser Allee.

George Mosse 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.

George Mosse described his parents, who practiced Reform Judaism and were anti-Zionist, as being, in their own minds, completely integrated as Germans.

George Mosse 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.

George Mosse may have been speaking metaphorically: his father in April 1933 had left for Paris seeking refuge, not only from the Nazis but from business creditors.

In Paris, Lachmann-George Mosse received an invitation from Hermann Goring to return to the Berliner Tageblatt as its business manager with the protective status of an Honorary Aryan ; George 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.

George Mosse's father spurned the offer and never returned to Germany.

From Switzerland, George Mosse moved to England, where he enrolled at the Quaker Bootham School in York.

George Mosse went on to graduate studies at Harvard University, where he benefited from a scholarship reserved for students born in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

George Mosse held appointments as a visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

George Mosse was named the first research historian in residence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

George Mosse's first published work was a 1947 paper in the Economic History Review describing the Anti-Corn Law League.

George Mosse claimed that this was the first time the landed gentry had tried to organize a mass movement in order to counter their opponents.

George Mosse declared that he approached history not as narrative, but as a series of questions and possible answers.

George Mosse claimed that it was not until his book The Nationalization of the Masses, which dealt with the sacralization of politics, that he began to put his own stamp upon the analysis of cultural history.

George Mosse started to write it in the Jerusalem apartment of the historian Jacob Talmon, surrounded by the works of Rousseau.

George Mosse sought to draw attention to the role played by myth, symbol, and political liturgy in the French Revolution.

George Mosse argued that there was a continuity between his work on the Reformation and his work on more recent history.

George Mosse claimed that it was not a big step from Christian belief systems to modern civic religions such as nationalism.

George Mosse argued that although racism was originally directed towards blacks, it was applied to Jews.

George Mosse saw nationalism, which often includes racism, as the chief menace of modern times.

George Mosse noted that European nationalism initially tried to combine patriotism, human rights, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

In developing this view George 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.

George Mosse traced the origins of Nazism in volkisch ideology back to a 19th-century organicist worldview that fused pseudo-scientific nature philosophy with mystical notions of a "German soul".

George 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.

George Mosse's upbringing attuned him to both the advantages and the dangers of a humanistic education.

George Mosse's liberalism informed his supportive but critical stance toward Zionism and the State of Israel.

At the University of Wisconsin, George Mosse was recognized as a charismatic and inspiring teacher.

The George Mosse Fund was created at the University of Amsterdam to further the advancement of gay and lesbian studies.