Michah Gottlieb is Associate Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. An expert on modern Jewish thought and culture with a focus on ethics and Jewish-Christian relations, he has written or edited several books and articles, including Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought.

In a riveting work, Michah Gottlieb tells the story of the Jewish Reformation-namely, the endeavor to reconstruct a new form of Judaism grounded in German middle-class modernity. Gottlieb both unsettles and reconstitutes the boundaries between Protestantism and Judaism, and redefines, in original ways, such terms as Orthodoxy and Reform. This excellent work raises fascinating questions about how we read religious texts; what is specific about such readings and what is universal about them; and how translation, education, and novel understandings of culture and cultural production generate new exegetical practices.

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The Jewish Reformation I. HASKALAH: MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S MODERATE REFORMATION 1. The Bible as Cultural Translation 2. Biblical Education and the Power of Conversation II. WISSENSCHAFT AND REFORM: LEOPOLD ZUNZ BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND SYNAGOGUE 3. Translation versus Midrash 4. Bible Translation and the Centrality of the Synagogue III. NEO- ORTHODOXY: THE SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH ENIGMA 5. A Man of No Party: Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism as Bible Translation 6. The Road to Orthodoxy: Hirsch in Battle 7. The Innovative Orthodoxy of Hirsch's Pentateuch 8. The Fracturing of German Judaism: Ludwig Philippson's Inclusive Israelite Bible and Hirsch's Sectarian Neo- Orthodox Pentateuch Conclusion: The Jewish Counter- Reformation Appendix: Mendelssohn on the Decalogue Bibliography Index Biblical and Rabbinic Sources

Michah Gottlieb is Associate Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. An expert on modern Jewish thought and culture with a focus on ethics and Jewish-Christian relations, he has written or edited several books and articles, including Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought.

In a riveting work, Michah Gottlieb tells the story of the Jewish Reformation-namely, the endeavor to reconstruct a new form of Judaism grounded in German middle-class modernity. Gottlieb both unsettles and reconstitutes the boundaries between Protestantism and Judaism, and redefines, in original ways, such terms as Orthodoxy and Reform. This excellent work raises fascinating questions about how we read religious texts; what is specific about such readings and what is universal about them; and how translation, education, and novel understandings of culture and cultural production generate new exegetical practices.

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The Jewish Reformation I. HASKALAH: MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S MODERATE REFORMATION 1. The Bible as Cultural Translation 2. Biblical Education and the Power of Conversation II. WISSENSCHAFT AND REFORM: LEOPOLD ZUNZ BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND SYNAGOGUE 3. Translation versus Midrash 4. Bible Translation and the Centrality of the Synagogue III. NEO- ORTHODOXY: THE SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH ENIGMA 5. A Man of No Party: Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism as Bible Translation 6. The Road to Orthodoxy: Hirsch in Battle 7. The Innovative Orthodoxy of Hirsch's Pentateuch 8. The Fracturing of German Judaism: Ludwig Philippson's Inclusive Israelite Bible and Hirsch's Sectarian Neo- Orthodox Pentateuch Conclusion: The Jewish Counter- Reformation Appendix: Mendelssohn on the Decalogue Bibliography Index Biblical and Rabbinic Sources

Michah Gottlieb is Associate Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. An expert on modern Jewish thought and culture with a focus on ethics and Jewish-Christian relations, he has written or edited several books and articles, including Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought.

In a riveting work, Michah Gottlieb tells the story of the Jewish Reformation-namely, the endeavor to reconstruct a new form of Judaism grounded in German middle-class modernity. Gottlieb both unsettles and reconstitutes the boundaries between Protestantism and Judaism, and redefines, in original ways, such terms as Orthodoxy and Reform. This excellent work raises fascinating questions about how we read religious texts; what is specific about such readings and what is universal about them; and how translation, education, and novel understandings of culture and cultural production generate new exegetical practices.

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The Jewish Reformation I. HASKALAH: MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S MODERATE REFORMATION 1. The Bible as Cultural Translation 2. Biblical Education and the Power of Conversation II. WISSENSCHAFT AND REFORM: LEOPOLD ZUNZ BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND SYNAGOGUE 3. Translation versus Midrash 4. Bible Translation and the Centrality of the Synagogue III. NEO- ORTHODOXY: THE SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH ENIGMA 5. A Man of No Party: Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism as Bible Translation 6. The Road to Orthodoxy: Hirsch in Battle 7. The Innovative Orthodoxy of Hirsch's Pentateuch 8. The Fracturing of German Judaism: Ludwig Philippson's Inclusive Israelite Bible and Hirsch's Sectarian Neo- Orthodox Pentateuch Conclusion: The Jewish Counter- Reformation Appendix: Mendelssohn on the Decalogue Bibliography Index Biblical and Rabbinic Sources