| Introduction | 11 |
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| I | 21 |
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| The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics | 21 |
| Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought | 41 |
| Reciting Jesus: Heine’s Nazarene Family Relations | 53 |
| Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler | 69 |
| II | 93 |
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| Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen | 93 |
| Hermann Cohen’s Liturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community | 125 |
| The Discovery of the “True Plato” in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers | 143 |
| Speaking Metaphysically of a Metaphysical God: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and the Metaphysical Divide | 161 |
| Verification (Bewährung) in Franz Rosenzweig | 177 |
| “Within Earshot of the Young Hegel”: Rosenzweig’s Letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg of September 1910 | 195 |
| “Brother Where Art Thou?” Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev | 219 |
| III | 251 |
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| “Thus Rome shows us our True Place”: Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy | 251 |
| Facing Plurality (from Marginality): The German-Jewish Reception of William James | 273 |
| Leo Strauss on Lessing’s Spinozism | 299 |
| Strauss, Schmitt, and Peterson, or: Comparative Contours of the “Theological-Political Predicament” | 327 |
| “Let me tell you a story”: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Future | 345 |
| Jacob Taubes, Karl Löwith, and the Interpretation of Jewish History | 359 |
| The Jews They Were and the Philosophers They Wished to Become | 381 |
| No “Love of the Jewish People”? Robert Weltsch’s and Hans Jonas’s Correspondence with Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem | 397 |
| Bibliography Paul Mendes-Flohr | 443 |
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| List of Authors | 463 |
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