LBI Year Book

I. EARLY MODERN JEWISH HISTORY

EDWARD FRAM: Three Forces that Shaped Early Modern German Rabbinic Culture

II. JEWISH POLITICAL THOUGHT

MILAN HANYS: National Humanism, Zionist Liberalism, and Democracy in the Philosophy of Felix Weltsch

III. MIGRATION AND EXILE

ANTHONY GRENVILLE: The Heritage of…

I. NAVIGATING IN-BETWEENNESS: JEWISH REFUGEES IN GLOBAL TRANSIT

SIMONE LÄSSIG AND SWEN STEINBERG: Navigating Liminality: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit

LISA GERLACH: ‘I think he will be able to adjust’. Letters of Recommendation Accompanying Jewish Refugees in Transit during National Socialism

NATALIE EPPELSHEIMER: Diasporic…

I. IN MEMORIAM: PETER PULZER

DAVID RECHTER: In Memoriam: Professor Peter Pulzer: 29 May 1929 – 26 January 2023

II. ESSAYS

RENATE EVERS: The Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone: Alois von Sonnenfels’ ‘אור נגה—Splendor Lucis’, Vienna 1745

ELIAS S. JUNGHEIM: On the Humanism of the Religious Idea: Ludwig…

I. THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGE AND THE JEWS

KAMILA LENARTOWICZ: Nothing Out of the Ordinary: The Life of Salomon Marcus

CARL NIEKERK: Johann Gottfried Herder, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jew as a ‘Parasitic Plant’

II. JEWS IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AUSTRIA

JOHANNES CZAKAI: Of Bug Crushers and Barbaric Clerks…

I. GERMAN-JEWISH AGENCY IN TIMES OF CRISIS

DAVID JÜNGER AND ANNA ULLRICH: Introduction: German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis, 1914–1938

BJÖRN SIEGEL: Open the Gate: German Jews, the Foundation of Tel Aviv Port, and the Imagined Power of the Sea in 1936

SARAH PANTER: Beyond Marginalization: The (German-)Jewish Soldiers’…

I. MEDIEVAL LEGACIES

RENATE EVERS: The 1484 Nuremberg Jewry Oath (More Judaico)

AMIR ENGEL: German-Jewish Esotericism: The Case of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah

II. GERMAN-JEWISH ENCOUNTERS

AMY HILL SHEVITZ AND SUSANNE HILLMAN: Franz Rosenzweig, Adele Alsberg Rosenzweig, and the German-Jewish…

I. EXILE PHOTOGRAPHY

OFER ASHKENAZI AND DANIEL WILDMANN: Exile Photography: An Introduction

TALILA KOSH-ZOHAR: Family Frames as Exile Photography

REBEKKA GROSSMAN: Image Transfer and Visual Friction: Staging Palestine in the National Socialist Spectacle

DANIEL H. MAGILOW: Cute Jews: Modernist…

I. REINHARD RÜRUP – OBITUARY

CLAUDIA BUCHWALD: Reinhard Rürup—Ambassador Between Worlds: 27 May 1934–6 April 2018

II. BEYOND THE NEGATIVE SYMBIOSIS: GERMAN–ISRAELI RELATIONSHIPS IN FILM

OFER ASHKENAZI: Introduction

TOBIAS EBBRECHT-HARTMANN: Projected Encounters: Rolf Vogel and the Beginnings of Cinematic…

I. ARNOLD PAUCKER – OBITUARY AND ARTICLE

PETER PULZER: Arnold Paucker: 6 January 1921–13 October 2016

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Speaking English with an Accent

II. JEWISH CONDITIONS, SHIFTING CONCEPTIONS OF NATION AND BELONGING

SCOTT SPECTOR: Introduction

ARIE M. DUBNOV: Can Parallels Meet? Hannah…

I. GERMAN JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

MENASHE ANZI AND ANJA SIEGEMUND: German Jews in the Middle East: New Perspectives

OLIVIER BAISEZ: “Greater Palestine” as a German-Zionist Idea before the British Mandate Period

RAKEFET ZALASHIK: The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the Second World…

I. AUSTRIAN, JEWISH, GERMAN, CZECH: REFRAMING MAX BROD AND PRAGUE ZIONISM

MARK H. GELBER: Introduction Max Brod in 2014

ABRAHAM RUBIN: Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals

SEBASTIAN SHIRRMEISTER: On Not Writing Hebrew: Max Brod and the ‘Jewish Poet of the German Tongue’ between Prague…

I. JEWS AND CITIZENSHIP

ANDREAS BRÄMER AND GIDEON REUVENI: Introduction Jews as German Citizens: The Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812 and Beyond

GIDEON REUVENI: Emancipation through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of Marketplace Citizenship

MICHAŁ SZULC: A Gracious Act or Merely a Regulation of Economic…

I. JEWS AND THE LAW IN MODERN EUROPE: EMANCIPATION, DESTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION

WARREN ROSENBLUM: Introduction

DOUGLAS G. MORRIS: The Dual State Reframed: Ernst Fraenkel’s Political Clients and his Theory of the Nazi Legal System

LISA MOSES LEFF: The Jewish Oath and the Making of Secularism in Modern France

WARREN…

I. THE GERMAN-JEWISH LITERARY CANON

MARK H. GELBER: Autobiography and History: Stefan Zweig, Theodor Herzl and Die Welt von Gestern

CAROLINE JESSEN: “Vergangenheiten haben ihr eigenes Beharrungsvermögen …” Josef Kastein and the Troublesome Persistence of a Canon of German Literature in Palestine/Israel

SANDER L. GILMAN: ‘Jewish…

I. JOHN GRENVILLE – OBITUARY AND INTERVIEW

PETER PULZER: John Grenville 1928–2011

BEA LEWKOWICZ: An Interview by Dr Bea Lewkowicz with Professor John Grenville

II. JEWISH LIFE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

DEAN PHILLIP BELL: Navigating the Flood Waters: Perspectives on Jewish Life in Early Modern Germany…

I. JEWISH AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

ISMAR SCHORSCH: Converging Cognates: the Intersection of Jewish and Islamic Studies in Nineteenth Century Germany

II. OVERLAPPING SPHERES

ROBERT LIBERLES: Jews and Christians in early modern Germany

YAACOV DEUTSCH: Jewish Anti-Christian Invectives and Christian Awareness:…

I. DISCUSSION

The Future of German-Jewish Studies

II. JEWISH IDENTITY, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS THINKING

NIMROD ZINGER: “Our hearts and spirits were broken”: The medical world from the perspective of German-Jewish patients in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

CHRISTIAN WIESE: “Let his Memory be…

I. THE PERCEPTION OF JEWS IN GERMAN SOCIETY

AYA ELYADA: Yiddish—Language of Conversion? Linguistic Adaptation and its Limits in Early Modern Judenmission

CHRISTIAN STUART DAVIS: Colonialism and Antisemitism during the Kaiserreich: Bernhard Dernburg and the Antisemites

MICHAH GOTTLIEB: Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn…

I. JEWISH IDENTITY

AMY BLAU: Claims of Language: Translation as a Mediation of Jewish Identity and the Yiddish Reception of Nelly Sachs

MANFRED JEHLE: “Relocations” in South Prussia and New East Prussia: Prussia’s Demographic Policy towards the Jews in Occupied Poland 1772–1806

JONATHAN M. HESS: Fiction and the…

I. SUSTENANCE FOR THE SOUL

MICHAEL A. MEYER: German Jewish Thinkers Reflect on the Future of the Jewish Religion

UTA LOHMANN: “Sustenance for the Learned Soul” The History of the Oriental Printing Press at the Publishing House of the Jewish Free School in Berlin

II. JEWISH LIFE AND SOCIETY: FROM THE NINETEENTH TO…

I. INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE IN THERESIENSTADT

MIRIAM INTRATOR: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, Books and Reading: Intellectual Resistance and Escape During the Holocaust

II. LITERARY INTERPRETATION AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

ELIZABETH PETUCHOWSKI: “Ein Wort—du Weißt”: Finding a Solution to a Riddle in Paul Celan…

I. THE END OF THE WAR AND THE HOLOCAUST

ANDREAS KOSSERT: “Endlösung on the ‘Amber Shore’” The Massacre in January 1945 on the Baltic Seashore—A Repressed Chapter of East Prussian History

II. JEWISH INTELLECTUALS

CHRISTIAN WIESE: “For a Time I Was Privileged to Enjoy his Friendship…”: The Ambivalent Relationship between…

I. RELIGIOUS RENEWAL

EDWARD BREUER AND DAVID SORKIN: Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation of the Kohelet Mussar

ANDREAS BRÄMER: The Dialectics of Religious Reform: The Hamburger Israelitische Tempel in Its Local Context 1817–1938

II. JEWISH SOCIAL LIFE, ANTISEMITISM AND…

I. JEWISH INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO TRADITION AND MODERNITY

ASTRID DEUBER-MANKOWSKY: Walter Benjamin’s Theological-Political Fragment as a Response to Ernst Bloch’s Spirit of Utopia

LOUISE HECHT: “How the power of thought can develop within a human mind.” Salomon Maimon, Peter Beer, Lazarus Bendavid: Autobiographies of Maskilim…

I. JEWS IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH

EDWARD TIMMS: The Pernicious Rift: Metternich and the Debate about Jewish Emancipation at the Congress of Vienna

NIALL FERGUSON: Metternich and the Rothschilds: “A Dance With Torches on Powder Kegs”?

R. J. W. EVANS: Progress and Emancipation in Hungary During the Age of Metternich…

I. JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT

RIVKA HORWITZ: Kabbalah in the Writings of Mendelssohn and the Berlin Circle of Maskilim

CHRISTOPH SCHULTE: Saul Ascher’s Leviathan, or the Invention of Jewish Orthodoxy in 1792

REINHARD RÜRUP: Jewish History in Berlin: Berlin in Jewish History

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I. GERMAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT FROM THE LATE EIGHTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

MOSHE CARMILLY-WEINBERGER: The Similarities and Relationship Between the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau) and the Rabbinical Seminary (Budapest)

EDWARD BREUER: The Deutsche Encyclopädie and the Jews

MICHAEL NAGEL: The Beginnings…

I. RELIGION AND JEWISH TEACHING

MAREN R. NIEHOFF: Zunz’s Concept of Haggadah as an Expression of Jewish Spirituality

AVI BERNSTEIN-NAHAR: Hermann Cohen’s Teaching Concerning Modern Jewish Identity (1904–1918)

MARIA T. BAADER: From “the Priestess of the Home” to “the Rabbi’s Brilliant Daughter”. Concepts…

I. INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION

ELISABETH KRAUS: Marcus Mosse: A Jew in the Prussian Province of Posen

LISA HARRIES-SCHUMANN: Between Orthodoxy and Reform, Revolution and Reaction: The Jewish Community in Ichenhausen, 1813–1861

II. YIDDISH STUDIES IN THE WILHELMINIAN AND WEIMAR YEARS

I. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

HEINZ MOSHE GRAUPE: Mordechai Shnaber-Levison: The Life, Works and Thought of a Haskalah Outsider

MAREN R. NIEHOFF: Jakob Weil’s Contribution to a Modern Concept of Haggadah

MICHAEL A. MEYER: “How Awesome is this Place!” The Reconceptualisation of the Synagogue in…

I. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Resistance of German and Austrian Jews to the Nazi Regime 1933–1945

JOHN P. FOX: German-and Austrian-Jewish Volunteers in Britain’s Armed Forces 1939–1945

GUY STERN: The Jewish Exiles in the Service of US Intelligence: The…

I. IDENTITY AND EMANCIPATION

HEIDI THOMANN TEWARSON: German-Jewish Identity in the Correspondence Between Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Her Brother, Ludwig Robert Hopes and Realities of Emancipation 1780–1830

ANITA BUNYAN: Rhenish Liberalism and the Jewish Question in the Vormärz: The Case of the Kölnische Zeitung 1841–1847

ASTRID…

I. GERMAN JEWS IN THE ERA OF EMANCIPATION

MARC SAPERSTEIN: War and Patriotism in Sermons to Central European Jews: 1756–1815

FRANZ LEVI: The Jews of Sachsen-Meiningen and the Edict of 1811

CHRISTOPHER CLARK: Missionary Politics. Protestant Missions to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

DEREK J. PENSLAR…

I. JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION

DAVID SORKIN: Jews, the Enlightenment and Religious Toleration – Some Reflections

FALK WIESEMANN: Jewish Burials in Germany – Between Tradition, the Enlightenment and the Authorities

ISMAR SCHORSCH: History as Consolation

RACHEL HEUBERGER: Orthodoxy versus Reform: The…

INTRODUCTION

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Jews as Jews versus Jews as Germans – Two Historical Perspectives: Introduction to Year Book XXXVI

I. BURGEONING EMANCIPATION

STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN: Two Silent Minorities: Orthodox Jews and Poor Jews in Berlin 1770–1823

EVA ENGEL HOLLAND: The World of Moses Mendelssohn…

INTRODUCTION

REINHARD RÜRUP: An Appraisal of German-Jewish Historiography: Introduction to Year Book XXXV

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Recent Historiography on the Jewish Religion

DAVID SORKIN: Emancipation and Assimilation: Two Concepts and their Application to German-Jewish History

INTRODUCTION

HEIKO A. OBERMAN: The Stubborn Jews: Timing the Escalation of Antisemitism in Late Medieval Europe: Introduction to Year Book XXXIV

I. PATTERNS OF ASSIMILATION AND ACCULTURATION

PETER HONIGMANN: Jewish Conversions – A Measure of Assimilation? A Discussion of the Berlin Secession Statistics of 1770–1941…

I. THE COURSE OF EMANCIPATION

ISMAR SCHORSCH: Breakthrough into the Past: The Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden

ROBERT LIBERLES: Dohm’s Treatise on the Jews: A Defence of the Enlightenment

WERNER E. MOSSE: Problems and Limits of Assimilation: Hermann and Paul Wallich 1833–1938

JULIUS…

INTRODUCTION

GEORGE L. MOSSE: German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect: Introduction to Year Book XXXII

I. EMANCIPATION

GORDON A. CRAIG: Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn: Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation

DAVID SORKIN: The Genesis of the Ideology of Emancipation: 1806–1840

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I. EMANCIPATION

REINHARD RÜRUP: The Tortuous and Thorny Path to Legal Equality: “Jew Laws” and Emancipatory Legislation in Germany From the Late Eighteenth Century

ROBERT LIBERLES: Was There a Jewish Movement for Emancipation in Germany?

ROBERT LIBERLES: Emancipation and the Structure of the Jewish Community in the…

I. FROM WEIMAR TO HITLER

ERNEST HAMBURGER AND PETER PULZER: Jews as Voters in the Weimar Republic

BARBARA SUCHY: The Verein Zur Abwehr Des Antisemitismus (II): From the First World War to its Dissolution in 1933

JEHUDA REINHARZ: The Zionist Response to Antisemitism in Germany

LUDGER HEID: East European…

I. IN THE THIRD REICH

JACOB BOAS: German-Jewish Internal Politics under Hitler 1933–1938

DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT: The American Press and the Persecution of German Jewry: The Early Years 1933–1935

ANAT FEINBERG: Jewish Fate in German Drama 1933–1945

BOB MOORE: Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands 1933–1940:…

MAX GRUENEWALD: In Memoriam: Robert Weltsch

I. INFLATION AND DEPRESSION

FRITZ K. RINGER: Inflation, Antisemitism and the German Academic Community of the Weimar Period

ECKHARD G. WANDEL: Germany’s Political Morale and Morals During the Great Depression

DONALD L. NIEWYK: The Impact…

I. THE JEWISH MINORITY

MARION A. KAPLAN: Tradition and Transition: The Acculturation, Assimilation and Integration of Jews in Imperial Germany: A Gender Analysis

STEFI JERSCH-WENZEL: The Jews as a “Classic” Minority in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Prussia

II. ZIONISTS AND “ASSIMILATIONISTS”

MARJORIE…

I. ETHNIC MINORITIES

VICKI CARON AND PAULA HYMAN: The Failed Alliance: Jewish–Catholic Relations in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1914

JACK WERTHEIMER: “The Unwanted Element”: East European Jews in Imperial Germany

ISTVAN DEAK: Ethnic Minorities and the Jews in Imperial Germany: Comments on the Papers of Vicki Caron and Paula…

ISMAR SCHORSCH: The Leo Baeck Institute: Continuity amid Desolation

I. RELIGION AND SECULARISATION

ISMAR SCHORSCH: The Religious Parameters of Wissenschaft Jewish Academics at Prussian Universities

VERNON LIDTKE: Social Class and Secularisation in Imperial Germany: The Working Classes

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I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

WERNER E. MOSSE: Judaism, Jews and Capitalism Weber, Sombart and Beyond

LAWRENCE SCHOFER: The History of European Jewry Search for a Method

KONRAD KWIET: Problems of Jewish Resistance Historiography

II. CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT

EVA ENGEL: The Emergence of Moses…

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Past, Present and Future of German-Jewish Historiography

II. ANTISEMITISM AND PHILOSEMITISM

SHULAMIT VOLKOV: Antisemitism as a Cultural Code: Reflections on the History and Historiography of Antisemitism in Imperial Germany

HENRY WASSERMANN: Jews and Judaism in the…

I. JEWS AND SOCIALISM

WERNER T. ANGRESS: “Between Baden and Luxemburg”: Jewish Socialists on the Eve of the First World War

ROBERT S. WISTRICH: Anti-Capitalism or Antisemitism? The Case of Franz Mehring

II. EMANCIPATION AND ASSIMILATION

JACOB TOURY: Types of Jewish Municipal Rights in German Townships…

I. THE BIBLE IN GERMAN

MARTIN JAY: Politics of Translation: Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin on the Buber–Rosenzweig Bible

II. THE JEWISH QUESTION AND ANTISEMITISM

MICHAEL ANTHONY RIFF: The Anti-jewish Aspect of the Revolutionary Unrest of 1848 in Baden and its Impact on Emancipation

STEVEN M.…

INTRODUCTION

GERSON D. COHEN: German Jewry as Mirror of Modernity: Introduction to the Twentieth Volume

I. HISTORIANS’ CONVENTIONS

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Prefatory Remarks

WERNER JOCHMANN: The Jews and German Society in the Imperial Era: Opening Address at the Session on German-Jewish History, Thirtieth Congress…

ROBERT WELTSCH: Siegfried Moses: End of an Epoch

I. TYPOLOGY

FRITZ BAMBERGER: The Arden House Conference: “Exploring a Typology of German Jewry”

DAVID S. LANDES: The Jewish Merchant: Typology and Stereotypology in Germany

H. G. REISSNER: The Jewish Merchant Observations on the Paper of…

EVA G. REICHMANN: Leo Baeck Centenary: A Personal Tribute

I. FROM THE MIDDLE AGES ONWARD

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: The Relevance of the Middle Ages for the Understanding of Contemporary Jewish History

JULIUS CARLEBACH: The Problem of Moses Hess’s Influence on the Young Marx

FREDDY RAPHAËL: …

I. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWRY IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

FOCUS ON WILHELMINIAN GERMANY

A Symposium on Prussian Jewry

MARJORIE LAMBERTI: The Prussian Government and the Jews: Official Behaviour and Policy-Making in the Wilhelminian Era

WERNER T. ANGRESS: Prussia’s Army and the Jewish Reserve Officer: Controversy…

I. RELIGIOUS TRENDS

MOSHE SCHWARCZ: Religious Currents and General Culture

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Jewish Religious Reform and Wissenschaft des Judentums: The Positions of Zunz, Geiger and Frankel

II. EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION

JACOB TOURY: Jewish Manual Labour and Emigration: Records from some Bavarian…

I. STAGES OF CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT

SELMA STERN-TAEUBLER: The First Generation of Emancipated Jews

SIEGFRIED STEIN: Liebliche Tefilloh: A Judaeo-German Prayer-Book Printed in 1709

CURT D. WORMANN: German Jews in Israel: Their Cultural Situation Since 1933

II. JEWS IN POLITICS

ARTHUR…

I. EMANCIPATION

ERNEST HAMBURGER: One Hundred Years of Emancipation

REINHARD RÜRUP: Jewish Emancipation and Bourgeois Society

ROBERT A. KANN: Assimilation and Antisemitism in the German-French Orbit in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

II. A FINANCIAL TYCOON

KURT GRUNWALD:…

I. IN SEARCH OF A WAY OF LIFE

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Hermann Cohen and his Historical Background

REUVEN MICHAEL: The Unknown Heinrich Graetz: From his Diaries and Letters

JACOB TOURY: Organizational Problems of German Jewry: Steps towards the Establishment of a Central Organization (1893–1920)

II…

I. INSTITUTES OF JEWISH EDUCATION

RICHARD FUCHS: The “Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums” in the Period of Nazi Rule: Personal Recollections

ISI JACOB EISNER: Reminiscences of the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary

II. JEWS IN POLITICS AND LITERATURE

ROBERT A. KANN: Friedrich Julius Stahl: A Re-…

I. JEWISH THOUGHT

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Between Past and Future: Leo Baeck’s Historical Position

NATHAN ROTENSTREICH: On Mendelssohn’s Political Philosophy

ISMAR SCHORSCH: Moritz Güdemann: Rabbi, Historian and Apologist

JOSEF FRAENKEL: Moritz Güdemann and Theodor Herzl

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THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE

SIEGFRIED MOSES: The First Ten Years of the Leo Baeck Institute

I. PHILANTHROPY, POLITICS AND IDEAS

James Simon: Industrialist, Art Collector, Philanthropist

ZOSA SZAJKOWSKI: Jewish Relief in Eastern Europe 1914–1917

H. G. REISSNER: The…

I. SEMANTICS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

ALEX BEIN: The Jewish Parasite: Notes on the Semantics of the Jewish Problem, with special Reference to Germany

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Max Weber’s Historical Interpretation of Judaism

GEORG HERLITZ: Three Jewish Historians: Isaak Markus Jost – Heinrich Graetz – Eugen Taeubler…

I. GREAT TEACHER, GREAT PHILANTHROPIST, GREAT SCIENTIST

ERWIN ROSENTHAL: Ismar Elbogen and the New Jewish Learning

S. ADLER-RUDEL: Moritz Baron Hirsch: Profile of a great Philanthropist

RUDOLF A. STERN: Fritz Haber: Personal Recollections

FRITZ HABER: Letters to Chaim Weizmann

I. FIGHTERS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

STERN-TÄUBLER SELMA: The German Jew in a Changing World

MOSHE RINOTT: Gabriel Riesser: Fighter for Jewish Emancipation

ALFRED HIRSCHBERG: Ludwig Hollaender, Director of the C. V.

KURT WILHELM: Benno Jacob, a Militant Rabbi

JOHANNA PHILIPPSON: The…

I. TWO WORLDS OF RELIGION

ALEXANDER ALTMANN: Zur Frühgeschichte der jüdischen Predigt in Deutschland: Leopold Zunz als Prediger

ALEXANDER CARLEBACH: A German Rabbi goes East

II. IN THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE

GUY STERN: Efraim Frisch and the “Neue Merkur”

HANS KOHN: Eros and Sorrow:…

I. TWO WORLDS OF RELIGION

ALEXANDER ALTMANN: Zur Frühgeschichte der jüdischen Predigt in Deutschland: Leopold Zunz als Prediger

ALEXANDER CARLEBACH: A German Rabbi goes East

II. IN THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE

GUY STERN: Efraim Frisch and the “Neue Merkur”

HANS KOHN: Eros and Sorrow:…

I. PROFILES OF 20TH CENTURY JEWS

FRITZ BAMBERGER: Julius Guttmann-Philosopher of Judaism

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Max Wiener’s Reinterpretation of Liberal Judaism

HAIM H. COHN: Joseph Carlebach

SIEGFRIED MOSES: Salman Schocken: His Economic and Zionist Activities

II. NINETEENTH…

I. EVOLUTION OF IDEAS

NATHAN ROTENSTREICH: For and against Emancipation: The Bruno Bauer Controversy

H. D. SCHMIDT: Anti-Western and Anti-Jewish Tradition in German Historical Thought

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Das Judentum im Geschichtsbild Jacob Burckhardts

ROBERT RAPHAEL GEIS: Hermann Cohen und die deutsche…

I. MEN AND EPOCHS

ERNST SIMON: Martin Buber and German Jewry

SELMA STERN-TAEUBLER: Eugen Taeubler and the “Wissenschaft des Judentums”

ERNST FEDER: Paul Nathan, the Man and his Work

JOSEPH LEFTWICH: Stefan Zweig and the World of Yesterday

II. STRUGGLE WITH THE SURROUNDING…

I. IN MEMORIAM LEO BAECK

S. MOSES: The Impact of Leo Baeck’s Personality on his Contemporaries

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Judaism and History of Religion in Leo Baeck’s Work

EVA G. REICHMANN: Symbol of German Jewry

WOLFGANG HAMBURGER: Teacher in Berlin and Cincinnati

Excerpts…

S. MOSES: Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany

I. FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT

SELMAR SPIER: Jewish History As We See It

SELMA STERN-TAEUBLER: Principles of German Policy towards the Jews at the Beginning of the Modern Era

H. D. SCHMIDT: The Terms of Emancipation 1781–1812: The public…