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Contributors Stanley G. Payne is Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His last major book was Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977 (1999). The Soviet Union, Communism, and Revolution in Spain, 1931–1939 will appear in 2004. David J. Sorkin is Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author, most recently, of The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought (2000) and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (2002). He is working on a book provisionally entitled Reasonable Belief: Six Faces of the Religious Enlightenment, 1689–1789. John S. Tortorice directs the Mosse Program in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Steven E. Aschheim holds the Vigevani Chair of European Studies at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he has taught Cultural and Intellectual History in the Department of History since 1982. In 2002–3 he was the first Mosse Exchange Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and GermanJewish Consciousness, 1800–1923 (1982), The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990 (1992), Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises (1996); In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans and Jews (2001); Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times (2001). He is also the editor of a conference volume, Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (2001). Joanna Bourke is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published seven books, on Irish history, gender and “the body,” the history of psychological thought, and modern warfare. Her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare (1999) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1998 and the Wolfson 279 History Prize for 2000. She is currently completing a book entitled Fear: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century. Saul Friedländer is 1939 Club Professor of History at UCLA. His latest book is Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol.1, The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939 (1997). Emilio Gentile is professor of contemporary history at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He is on the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary History and is coeditor of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. Among his most recent books are Il culto del littorio: La sacralizzazione della politica nell ’Italia fascista (1993), La via Italiana al totalitarismo: Il partito e lo Stato nel regime fascista (1995), La Grande Italia: Ascesa e declino del mito nazionale nel XX secolo (1997), Le origini dell’ideologia fascista, rev. and enl. ed. (1996), Fascismo e antifascismo: I partiti italiani fra le due guerre mondiali (2000); Le religioni della politica: Fra democrazie e totalitarismi (2001), Fascismo: Storia e interpretazione (2002), Renzo De Felice: Lo storico e il personaggio (2003). His latest book, The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism, is forthcoming. Roger Griffin is professor in the history of ideas at Oxford Brookes University and the author of The Nature of Fascism (1991), which had a major impact on fascist studies. This was followed by two documentary readers—Fascism (1995) and International Fascism. Theories, Causes and the New Consensus (1998)— and numerous articles, chapters and encyclopedia entries on interwar and postwar manifestations of the genus of fascism. His forthcoming projects include a five-volume critical anthology of secondary sources relating to fascism (2004), and Beginning Time (2005), an investigation of the relationship of modernity and modernism to fascist projects for the renewal of history. Rudy Koshar is the DAAD Professor of German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Among his most recent books are German Travel Cultures (2000) and an edited volume, Histories of Leisure (2002). He is at work on a history of driving and cultures of automobility in twentiethcentury Europe and America. Walter Laqueur is chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. His most recent book is No End to War: Terrorism in the 21st Century (2003). Robert A. Nye received his Ph.D. in 1969 from Wisconsin. He is the Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University. His most recent book is Sexuality, an Oxford Reader (1999). He is presently working on Masculinity and the History of the Professions. David...

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