Professor Raphael Gross
Reader in History
Email: leobaeck@gmail.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7580 3493
Office: Leo Baeck Institute, 2nd Floor, Arts Two Building
Professor Gross was educated in Switzerland and studied at the universities of Zurich, Berlin, Bielefeld, Cambridge, Jerusalem and Essen. He became part-time Reader in History at Queen Mary in 2009, and is one of the convenors of the new Leo Baeck MA in European Jewish History.
He took his PhD at Essen University in Germany. During the research for his PhD he was a Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Franz Rosenzweig Institute at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He then taught modern German history as Assistant Professor at the University of Bochum. Since 2001, he has been director of the Leo Baeck Institute London and editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Between 2001 and 2008 he was lecturer and reader in history at Sussex University and was affiliated to its Centre for German-Jewish Studies. In 2006 he took on the directorship of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt (Main) and in 2007 the directorship of the Fritz Bauer Institute at Frankfurt University. He has been Honorary Professor at the History and Philosophy Department of Frankfurt University since 2008.
Research interests:
Raphael Gross has written widely in the field of modern German and German-Jewish history. He writes a column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ): “LINKS”. He has a special interest in intellectual history. His first book was an analysis of the role of antisemitism in the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt. The book led to controversy about the connection between antisemitism and German intellectual history.
His second book focuses on Nazism and moral sentiments. It is a first approach to a new perspective on the Nazi period in terms of a moral history. The book has been finished in 2009 and will be published in both German and English in 2010.
As director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt he is involved in preparing historical exhibitions. His main focus is on post-war German Jewish history: Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999) – A Jewish Life in Germany (2007); Looted Art and Restitution (2009); Frankfurt and the Frankfurt School (2009-2010).
Two new core fields of interest include German-Jewish intellectual history after the Holocaust and the life and work of the “Jurist of the 20th Century” – Hans Kelsen.
Postgraduate supervision:
Raphael Gross has supervised two PhD dissertations at Sussex University, one on protestantism and antisemitism during the Nazi period, and the other on the debate about the singularity of the Holocaust. He has acted as external examiner at various UK and German universities. He is happy to supervise PhD students in twentieth-century German history, intellectual history, history of antisemitism and German-Jewish history.
Publications:
Nazi Morality: A History of German Moral Sentiments (manuscript finished). Forthcoming 2010 in German and English.
Co-editor (with J. A. Grenville), Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (Oxford University Press), Oxford 2009.
Ben Barkow, Raphael Gross and Michael Lenarz (eds): Novemberpogrom 1938. Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library, Suhrkamp (Jüdischer Verlag), Frankfurt am Main 2008
Co-editor (with J. A. Grenville), Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (Berghahn Books), Oxford 2001 - 2008.
Carl Schmitt and the Jews. The “Jewish Question”, the Holocaust and German Legal Theory. Translated by Joel Golb with a new introduction by the author (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).
''Loyalty'' in National Socialism: A contribution to the moral history of the National Socialist period, in: History of European Ideas (2007), pp. 1-16.
«Gott und Religion in der Ethik des Nationalsozialismus »,in: Nachleben der Religionen, Kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Dialektik der Säkularisierung, ed. Martin Tremel and Daniel Weidner, München 2007, pp. 177-187.
«Immoral Times: The Assessment of National Socialism in Discourses on Shame and Guilt in the Immediate Postwar Period», German History. The Journal of the German History Society. Issue 25:2, spring 2007, pp. 219-238.
Relegating Nazism to the Past: Expressions of German Guilt in 1945 and Beyond, in: German History, 4 2007; vol. 25: pp. 219-238.
Raphael Gross, Fritz Backhaus and Michael Lenarz (eds.): Ignatz Bubis. 1927 -1999. Ein jüdisches Leben in Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007.
«Zum Fortwirken der NS-Moral . Adolf Eichmann und die deutsche Gesellschaft», in; Jüdische Geschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte, Raphael Gross and Yfaat Weiss (ed.), Göttingen 2006, pp. 212-234.
(with Evelyn Brockhoff, Jan Gerchow, and August Heuser), Die Kaisermacher - Frankfurt am Main und die Goldene Bulle 1356 – 1806, Frankfurt/Main 2006, pp. 560 (Societäts Verlag).
(with Yfaat Weiss, ed.) Jüdische Geschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte, Göttingen (Vandenhoeck), 2006.
Carl Schmitt und die Juden: Eine deutsche Rechtslehre, second edition with a new afterword, Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp - stw 1754) 2005.
Carl Schmitt et les Juives. Translated by Dennis Trierweiler with a new Introduction by the author (Presses Universitaires de France PUF, dans la collection Fondements de la politique dirigée par Yves Charles Zarka), 2005.
„Carl Schmitt i els jueus“, in: L’Espill. Revista Fundada Per Joan Fuster, vol. 21, 2005, pp. 27-36.
«Der Führer als Betrüger: Moral und Antipositivismus in Deutschland 1945-1946 am Beispiel Fritz von Hippels», in: Anne Klein (ed.), NS-Unrecht vor Kölner Gerichten nach 1945, Cologne 2003 (Greve), pp. 23-35.
“Un monde qui avait perdu sa réalité...” : survivants suisses de l'holocauste en Suisse / Raphael Gross, Eva Lezzi et Marc R. Richter (éds) ; traduction de Sophie Pavillon. - Lausanne : Éditions Antipodes, 2003.
Carl Schmitt and the Jews. Japanese translation (Hosnei University Press Japan), Tokyo 2002.
Carl Schmitt und die Juden: Eine deutsche Rechtslehre, Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp) 2000.
Co-editor (with Eva Lezzi and Marc R. Richter), “Eine Welt, die ihre Wirklichkeit verloren hatte…” Jüdische Überlebende des Holocaust in der Schweiz, Zürich (Limmat) 1999.