Table of Contents

IntroductionEnlightenment; German Jewry before Emancipation; How the Enlightenment saw the Jews; Lessing and Toleration; Emancipation: Dohm versus Humboldt; Moses Mendelssohn and the Rational Jew; Mendelssohns LegacyLiberalism; Jews and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century; Schnitzler: Liberalism and Irony; The European Humanism of Stefan Zweig; Freud: Science versus ReligionAntisemitism; Varieties of Antisemitism; Literary Images of the JewAssimilation; The Meaning of Assimilation; Self-Hatred; HyperacculturationDissimilation; The Jewish Renaissance; The Eastern Jews; The Jew as OrientalZionismAbbreviationsSelect Bibliography