Historian Steven E. Aschheim will give the first lecture in the Mosse Lectures series on the topic of »Zionismus. History, Projects, Objections«.

Introduction and Moderation: Ethel Matala de Mazza

Abstract
What is the relationship between the ongoing Israel-Gaza War and the person and thought of George Mosse in whose name these Lectures are dedicated? Given Mosse's deep commitments to both enlightened liberalism and what he called »humanist nationalism«, this talk will examine the threats and challenges the war is posing to the possibilities and realities of these fragile values and institutions in the midst of war and its aftermath.

Steven E. Aschheim is Emeritus Professor of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem where he taught Cultural and Intellectual History in the Department of History since 1982 and held the Vigevani Chair of European Studies. He also acted as the Director of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Centre for German Literature and Cultural History. Apart from academic journals, he has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Jewish Review of Books, the Marginalia Review of Books, and Ha'aretz.