The authors examine the relationship between the cultural, religious and social situation of German Jews on the one hand and their scientific activities on the
In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intel
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddis
The transformation of German Jewry from 1780 to 1840 exemplified a twofold revolution: on one level, the end of the feudal status of Jews as an autonomous commu
The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different—often conflicting—historical
