I. JEWISH INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO TRADITION AND MODERNITY
ASTRID DEUBER-MANKOWSKY: Walter Benjamin’s Theological-Political Fragment as a Response to Ernst Bloch’s Spirit of Utopia
LOUISE HECHT: “How the power of thought can develop within a human mind.” Salomon Maimon, Peter Beer, Lazarus Bendavid: Autobiographies of Maskilim Written in German
II. THE JEWISH ALLTAG IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
ROBERT LIBERLES: Introduction
RACHEL L. GREENBLATT: The Shapes of Memory: Evidence in Stone from the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
AVRIEL BAR-LEVAV: Ritualisation of Jewish Life and Death in the Early Modern Period
STEFAN LITT: Conversions to Christianity and Jewish Family Life in Thuringia: Case Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
DAVID WARREN SABEAN: Kinship and Prohibited Marriages in Baroque Germany: Divergent Strategies among Jewish and Christian Populations
KENNETH STOW: Neofiti and Their Families: Or, Perhaps, the Good of the State
III. JEWISH LIFE IN AUSTRIA
EVYATAR FRIESEL: The Oesterreichisches Central-organ, Vienna 1848: A Radical Jewish Periodical
RICHARD HACKEN: The Jewish Community Library in Vienna: From Dispersion and Destruction to Partial Restoration
IV. JEWISH ORGANISATIONS BETWEEN ADVOCACY AND ACCOMMODATION
VIRGINIA IRIS HOLMES: Integrating Diversity, Reconciling Contradiction: The Jüdischer Friedensbund in Late Weimar Germany
JAY HOWARD GELLER: Representing Jewry in East Germany, 1945–1953: Between Advocacy and Accommodation
V. MEMOIRS
EDUARD BLOCH: The Autobiography of Obermedizinalrat Eduard Bloch
DIETER FRANCK: Youth Protest in Nazi Germany