From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Emancipation and Its Aftermath	7
2	Emancipation and the Crisis of Religious Authority: The Emergence of the Modern Rabbinate	9
3	The Religious Parameters of Wissenchaft: Jewish Academics at Prussian Universities	51
4	The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy	71
5	Art as Social History: Moritz Oppenheim and the German Jewish Vision of Emancipation	93
6	On the History of the Political Judgment of the Jew	118
7	German Antisemitism in the Light of Post-War Historiography	133
Pt. 2	Thinking Historically	149
8	Wissenschaft and Values	151
9	The Ethos of Modern Jewish Scholarship	158
10	The Emergence of Historical Consciousness in Modern Judaism	177
11	Breakthrough into the Past: The Verein fur Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden	205
12	From Wolfenbuttel to Wissenschaft: The Divergent Paths of Isaak Markus Jost and Leopold Zunz	233
13	Zacharias Frankel and the European Origins of Conservative Judaism	255
14	Ideology and History in the Age of Emancipation	266
15	Scholarship in the Service of Reform	303
16	History as Consolation	334
17	Jewish Studies from 1818 to 1919	345
18	German Judaism: From Confession to Culture	360
19	The Leo Baeck Institute: Continuity amid Desolation	368
20	The Place of Jewish Studies in Contemporary Scholarship	372
21	The Lachrymose Conception of Jewish History	376
	Index	389