Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith

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Notes Abbreviations AZJ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums BLBI Bulletin des Leo Baeck Instituts HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual JjlG Jahrbuch der jüdisch literarischen Gesellschaft JjGL Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte und Literatur JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JZWL Jüdische Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Leben LBIYB Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook MGDJ Mitteilungen des Gesamtarchivs der deutschen Juden MGjV Mittheilungen der Gesellschaft für jüdische Volkskunde MGWJ Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums PAJHS Publications of the American-Jewish Historical Society TJHSE Jewish Historical Society of England—Transactions WZjT Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für jüdische Theologie ZGJD Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland ZrIJ Zeitschrift für die religiösen Interessen des Judentums ZWJ Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judentums Introduction 1. For a recent discussion of the interplay between the history of effects (Wirkungsgeschichte ) and the history of reception (Rezeptionsgeschichte), see Martyn P. Thompson, “Reception History and the Interpretation of Historical Meaning,” History and Theory 32 (1993): 248–72. 2. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), xi–xxiv; and Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994), 1–23. For a survey of the various theories of reception, see Robert C. Holub, Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 1989). 155 3. Gershom Scholem, “Mi-tokh hirhurim ‘al hokhmat yisra‘el,” [1944] Devarim be-go: Pirke morashah u-tehiyah, 2 vols. (Tel Aviv: ‘Am ‘oved, 1982), 2: 385–403; and his “Wissenschaft vom Judentum einst und jetzt,” Judaica (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1963), 1: 147–64. 4. Gerson D. Cohen, “German Jewry as a Mirror to Modernity,” LBIYB 20 (1975): ix–xxi, here xv; and Jonathan Frankel, “Assimilation and the Jews in NineteenthCentury Europe: Toward a New Historiography?” Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed. Steven J. Zipperstein and Jonathan Frankel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1–37, here 25–26. 5. Ismar Schorsch, From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994), 1–6. 6. Susannah Heschel, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998); see also Christian Wiese, Wissenschaft des Judentums und Protestantische Theologie im Wilhelminischen Deutschland: Ein Schrei ins Leere? (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1999). 7. Amos Funkenstein, Perceptions of Jewish History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), esp. 1–21, here 19; Michael A. Meyer, “The Emergence of Jewish Historiography: Motives and Motifs,” History and Theory 27 (1988): 160–75, here 175; Michael A. Meyer, “Jewish Scholarship and Jewish Identity: Their Historical Relationship in Modern Germany,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 8 (1992): 181–93; and Shulamit Volkov, “Die Erfindung einer Tradition: Zur Entstehung des modernen Judentums in Deutschland,” HZ 253 (1991): 603–28. 8. For a criticism of subsuming the production of historical memory solely to politics and ideology, see Alon Confino, “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems and Methods,” AHR 102 (1997): 1386–1403. 9. David Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 113–23; and David Sorkin, “The Impact of Emancipation on German Jewry. A Reconsideration,” Assimilation and Community, ed. Fraenkel and Zipperstein , 177–98. 10. Jacob Borut, “‘Verjudung des Judentums’: Was there a Zionist Subculture in Weimar Germany?” In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933, ed. Michael Brenner and Derek J. Penslar (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), 92–114. 11. Fritz Stern, Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire (New York: Knopf, 1977), 471. 12. Steven E. Aschheim, “German History and German Jewry: Boundaries, Junctions and Interdependence,” LBIYB 43 (1998): 315–22. See also Samuel Moyn, “German Jewry and the Question of Identity: Historiography and Theory,” LBIYB 41 (1996): 291– 308; and Till van Rahden, “Mingling, Marrying, and Distancing Jewish Integration in Wilhelminian Breslau and its Erosion in Early Weimar Germany,” Jüdisches Leben in der Weimarer Republik, ed. Wolfgang Benz, Arnold Paucker, and Peter Pulzer (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1998), 197–222. 13. Ludwig Geiger, Abraham Geiger: Leben und Lebenswerk (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1910), 212–14. 156 Notes to Pages 5–6 14. On German liberalism’s growing hostility toward Jewish enfranchisement, see Dagmar Herzog, Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton: Princeton University Press...