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List of Contributors

Introduction Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese

Part I The Emergence and Function of a New Scholarly Paradigm

1. Moses Mendelssohn and the Polemics of History Jonathan M. Hess

2. Outside and Inside the Nations: Changing Borders in the Study of the Jewish Past during the Nineteenth Century Nils Roemer

3. Glaube und Geschichte: A Vexed Relationship in German-Jewish Culture David N. Myers

4. Two Persistent Tensions within Wissenschaft des Judentums Michael A. Meyer

Part II Jewish Historiography and Its Encounter with Other Disciplines

5. Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic History, and Scholarly Thinking: Wissenschaft and Beyond Richard S. Sarason

6. Religionswissenschaft and Early Reform Jewish Thought: Samuel Hirsch and David Einhorn Gershon Greenberg

7. "The Best Antidote to Anti-Semitism"? Wissenschaft des Judentums, Protestant Biblical Scholarship, and Anti-Semitism in Germany before 1933 Christian Wiese

8. Fashioning a Neutral Zone: Jewish and Protestant Socialists Challenge Religionswissenschaft in Weimar Germany Marc A. Krell

9. The Absence of an Encounter: Sociology and Jewish Studies Pierre Birnbaum

10. Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and the Holocaust Michael L. Morgan

11. "Jewish Literature" and "World Literature": Wissenschaft des Judentums and its Concept of Literature Andreas B. Kilcher

Part III Ideology and Popularization in Jewish Historiography

12. Historicizing Emancipation: Jewish Historical Culture and Wissenschaft in Germany, 1912–1938 Christhard Hoffmann

13. Historiography in a Cultural Ghetto: Jewish Historians in Nazi Germany Michael Brenner

14. From Text to Edition: Processes of Scholarly Thinking in German-Jewish Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century Gabriele von Glasenapp

Part IV Wissenschaft and Jewish Identity

15. Dimensions and Varieties of Orthodox Judaism Aviezer Ravitzky

16. Which Wissenschaft? Reconstructionism's Theological Appropriation of Sociology and Religious Naturalism Robert M. Seltzer

17. Postzionism and Postmodern Theory: The Challenge to Jewish Studies Laurence J. Silberstein

Part V New Concepts and Perspectives

18. Responsive Thinking: Cultural Studies and Jewish Historiography Jonathan Boyarin

19. Historiography as Cultural Identity: Toward a Jewish History beyond National History Andreas Gotzmann

20. The Impact of Feminist Theory on Jewish Studies Susannah Heschel

21. What Power for Which Jews? (Post)Modern Reflections on the Idea of Power in Jewish Historiography Anthony D. Kauders

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