From: The Germanic Review | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Roemer, Nils | COPYRIGHT 1997 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The history of the German-Jewish experience forms the cornerstone of the modern Jewish experience from the inception of scholarly Jewish historiography in the nineteenth century. Isaac Jost (1793-1860) and Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891) limited their description of modem Jewish history almost exclusively to a description of Jewish life in Germany. While this enduring paradigmatic status of German Jewry has recently been challenged by scholars such as Todd Endelman and Paula Hyman, the...