	Acknowledgments	7
	Introduction	11
Pt. I	Reflections on Jewish Historiography
1	Where Does the Modern Period of Jewish History Begin?	21
2	Reflections on Jewish Modernization	32
3	The Emergence of Modern Jewish Historiography: Motives and Motifs	44
4	Heinrich Graetz and Heinrich von Treitschke: A Comparison of Their Historical Images of the Modern Jew	64
5	Jews as Jews versus Jews as Germans: Two Historical Perspectives	76
6	The Question of Continuity in Jewish History	87
Pt. II	The Jews of Germany
7	The German Jews: Some Perspectives on Their History	99
8	"Scripture or Spirit?" The Revelation Question in German-Jewish Thought of the Nineteenth Century	111
9	Jewish Scholarship and Jewish Identity: Their Historical Relationship in Modern Germany	127
10	German Political Pressure and Jewish Religious Response in the Nineteenth Century	144
11	"Wholly According to the Established Custom"?: The Spiritual Life of Berlin Jewry Following the Edict of 1823	168
12	Jewish Political Leadership in Nazi Germany	183
Pt. III	Religious Reform in Europe
13	Should and Can an "Antiquated" Religion Become Modern?: The Jewish Reform Movement in Germany as Seen by Jews and Christians	209
14	"How Awesome Is This Place!": The Reconceptualization of the Synagogue in Nineteenth-Century Germany	223
15	Liberal Judaism and Zionism in Germany	239
16	Gemeinschaft within Gemeinde: Religious Ferment in Weimar Liberal Judaism	256
17	The German Model of Religious Reform and Russian Jewry	278
18	Jewish Religious Reform in Germany and Britain	304
Pt. IV	American Jewry
19	German-Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century America	323
20	The Refugee Scholars Project of the Hebrew Union College	345
21	American Reform Judaism and Zionism: Early Efforts at Ideological Rapprochement	362
22	Abba Hillel Silver as Zionist within the Camp of Reform Judaism	378
	Index	403

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